Sentence examples for a mighty flood from inspiring English sources

A "mighty flood" comes upon Tupelo, surprising everyone.

He had been recently torn from his family by a mighty flood of water and swept kilometers away to a strange, ruined village on Aceh's western coast.

In this way poor stratospheric has been lowered, wretched abysmal has been raised, and cataclysmic (in the manner of a mighty flood) now mops up after workaday exaggerations.

The fanciful notion behind "The Last Two People" is that a mighty flood has washed humanity off the planet, except for two bedraggled survivors whose only common language, they discover, is song and dance.

Some are based on odd bits of fact: doves descend in vast numbers to devour the grain in the fields; a female outlaw rustles a pig; during a bank robbery, a woman is held hostage and the sheriff shoots her in the hip; the Red River expands in a mighty flood.

And all of that massive amount of debt will come due, and literally, the rash of newspaper failures will go from a small river to a mighty flood.

And when a mighty storm floods the riverbank, we discover that he can make his way through the swamps, too.

The remainder of the march quickly turned into such a ceaseless military fiasco that it reminded an artillery captain "of the temple scene from 'Orlando Furioso.'" A mighty rainstorm doused the countryside in floods and washed out roads.

Normally, when the natural world reminds us of its might, and our own puniness, with a flood, a hurricane or a mighty wave, it is a nasty, jolting experience.

A mighty rainstorm then doused the countryside in floods that washed out roads.

A flood of immigrants in the 1990s gave national brainpower a mighty boost (see article).