Below you will find example sentences with "prevent flooding". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Prevent Flooding in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 17
  • Discovered as a combination around: flooding
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 5
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 20.8 words

Words in this phrase

prevent flooding

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • prevent can mean: To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something). Frequent word
  • flooding can mean: present participle and gerund of flood Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 1 start, 8 middle, 8 end
  • Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

canals to prevent flooding and disease 1× constructed to prevent flooding of the 1× drains and prevent flooding 1× function to prevent flooding in other 1× infrastructure to prevent flooding 1× levees to prevent flooding citation termites 1× made to prevent flooding 1× order to prevent flooding 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a long sea 1× a major labor 1× as the city 1× dowe said these 1× during rainstorms the 1× in the 1840s 1×

Common sentence endings:

to prevent flooding 4× against future flooding 1× along its banks 1× and disease outbreaks 1× and nearby properties 1× and prevent flooding 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

river 4× future 3× drains 3× city 2× rainy 2× season 2× storm 2× water 2× bridges 2× elevated 2× infrastructure 2× wall 2×

Related phrases

help prevent flash flooding prevent people prevent further prevent future

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around flooding:

flash flooding 13×

Just before it in the phrase index:

pretty sure pretty good pretty decent pretty consistent press writers press writer

Just after it in the phrase index:

prevent further prevent future prevent people preventative maintenance prevention cdc prevention month

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

prevent people prevent further prevent future

Same ending:

flash flooding

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "prevent flooding" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 20.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as canals to prevent flooding and disease, constructed to prevent flooding of the, river, future and drains stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with help prevent, flash flooding, prevent people and flash flooding, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with prevent flooding

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

A long sea wall helps prevent flooding. (7 words)

That, in turn, can prevent flooding and maintain river capacity to protect against future flooding. (15 words)

It will be elevated about 2 feet to try to prevent flooding during winter storms. (15 words)

Longer example sentences

Nature Parks More room for the river Waal To prevent flooding in the near future, the Dutch government is changing the course of more than 30 rivers throughout the country. (30 words)

Such robots may be useful for future projects on Mars, or for building levees to prevent flooding. citation Termites use sophisticated means to control the temperatures of their mounds. (29 words)

The advanced infrastructure, which includes agricultural terracing and elevated trade routes to prevent flooding in rainy seasons, has experts rethinking the dimensions and complexity of the Maya empire. (28 words)

Example sentences (17)

The recent flooding is part of this natural process; the floodplain is performing its function to prevent flooding in other parts of the river catchment.

That, in turn, can prevent flooding and maintain river capacity to protect against future flooding.

As the city prepares for the rainy season, the council has promised to continue its efforts to clear critical drains and prevent flooding.

Dowe said these details have not been decided, but plans were being made to prevent flooding.

During rainstorms, the City is able to channel rainwater to catch basins and storm drains in order to prevent flooding.

The aim of the project was to prevent flooding on the coast road and nearby properties.

These localities are at a low level, so they have to be provided with storm water drains, too, to prevent flooding.

He said all culverts would be covered while modern bridges would be constructed to prevent flooding of the area.

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It will be elevated about 2 feet to try to prevent flooding during winter storms.

The advanced infrastructure, which includes agricultural terracing and elevated trade routes to prevent flooding in rainy seasons, has experts rethinking the dimensions and complexity of the Maya empire.

The objective of these dams was to capture the excess water to prevent flooding and its attendant consequences and used for farming in the dry season.

A long sea wall helps prevent flooding.

A major labor draft, the desagüe, compelled thousands of Indians over the colonial period to work on infrastructure to prevent flooding.

In the 1840s, most creeks were rerouted or placed in canals to prevent flooding and disease outbreaks.

Nature Parks More room for the river Waal To prevent flooding in the near future, the Dutch government is changing the course of more than 30 rivers throughout the country.

Such robots may be useful for future projects on Mars, or for building levees to prevent flooding. citation Termites use sophisticated means to control the temperatures of their mounds.

To prevent flooding, the Army Corps of Engineers recommended widening the Scioto River through downtown, constructing new bridges, and building a retaining wall along its banks.

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