Inundate is an English word with synonyms like deluge or flood. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Inundate meaning
- To cover with large amounts of water; to flood.
- To overwhelm.
Using Inundate
- The main meaning on this page is: To cover with large amounts of water; to flood. | To overwhelm.
- Useful related words include: deluge, flood, swamp, fill.
- In the example corpus, inundate often appears in combinations such as: inundate the, to inundate, and inundate.
Context around Inundate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Inundate
- In this selection, "inundate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, tours, likely, soon, new, health and silsden stand out and add context to how "inundate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include agencies that inundate overburdened borrowers and as to inundate health food. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "inundate" sits close to words such as aaj, aal and aalto, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with inundate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Across the bay, coastal flooding will inundate parts of Alameda. (10 words)
So what if company tours inundate our kids with marketing messages? (11 words)
Aside from that mammoth coastal flooding, Florence will likely inundate cities far inland as well. (15 words)
I worried that because our property is only 26 feet above sea level, San Francisco Bay water would inundate the roads that lead to it in the not-too-distant future, but I overlooked the more immediate threat of wildfire. (40 words)
The IMD as also issued a storm surge warning which may see waves rise up to 1.0 meter in height and is most likely to inundate low lying areas of Nagapattinam, Thanjavur, Pudukkottai and Ramanathapuram districts of Tamil Nadu. (40 words)
Because of this, it is often impossible for members of such a family to sell land or other properties, due to fear that the possession of such items will cause foxes to inundate one's own home. (37 words)
Have we really sunk so far as to inundate health food with even more artificial flavors? (16 words)
So what if company tours inundate our kids with marketing messages? (11 words)
Example sentences (20)
A new threat has surfaced in the ChatGPT saga, with cybercriminals having developed a way to hack the AI chatbot and inundate it with malware commands.
A widely used application for environmental water is to raise water levels in rivers and weirs to inundate new hard surfaces to grow new biofilms.
Have we really sunk so far as to inundate health food with even more artificial flavors?
Yet Labour-run Bradford Council is happy to inundate Silsden with new housing developments, and our new Labour Prime Minister wants to rip up the green belt for housing.
Before you inundate the teacher with questions and requests, take time to find out what they need and be mindful of when you’re contacting them.
Maybe we handle logistics for oil companies planning pipelines across rural America, or process paperwork for collection agencies that inundate overburdened borrowers with threatening calls.
Over the course of the next few months, the Herald will be following numerous tenants and landlords as they navigate the crisis, which watchdogs warn could generate a “tsunami” of evictions and inundate the courts.
While the dam would inundate private land acquired by the water district, the 4.3 million cubic yards of fill and riprap would come from borrow pits on federal land.
Across the bay, coastal flooding will inundate parts of Alameda.
It will also inundate one third of the world’s agricultural land with salt water causing famine in half of the world.
I worried that because our property is only 26 feet above sea level, San Francisco Bay water would inundate the roads that lead to it in the not-too-distant future, but I overlooked the more immediate threat of wildfire.
So what if company tours inundate our kids with marketing messages?
Aside from that mammoth coastal flooding, Florence will likely inundate cities far inland as well.
The IMD as also issued a storm surge warning which may see waves rise up to 1.0 meter in height and is most likely to inundate low lying areas of Nagapattinam, Thanjavur, Pudukkottai and Ramanathapuram districts of Tamil Nadu.
Viqram Sheikh, a loquacious Hebrew speaker who insisted he was a Delhi-born Muslim — he said he picked up the language from the backpackers that inundate the area — had no idea Netanyahu was in town.
A tsunami can occur in any tidal state and even at low tide can still inundate coastal areas.
Because of this, it is often impossible for members of such a family to sell land or other properties, due to fear that the possession of such items will cause foxes to inundate one's own home.
Because the equipment needed to produce digital feature films can be obtained more easily than celluloid, producers could inundate the market with cheap productions and potentially dominate the efforts of serious directors.
Callaghan was also responsible for the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968 ; a controversial piece of legislation prompted by Conservative assertions that an influx of Kenyan Asians would soon inundate the country.
Floodwaters back up into the Tonlé Sap, causing the lake to inundate as much as 10,000 square kilometers.
Common combinations with inundate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: