Sentence examples for a powerful flood from inspiring English sources

Rather, Ciochon argues, the human fossils found there (which include a skullcap widely agreed to be H. erectus and a thigh bone that could belong to either H. erectus or H. sapiens, a matter of sharp debate) were washed into the site by a powerful flood, and nothing found with them including the shells can be assumed to have been associated with them originally.

A powerful flood submerged the town and destroyed most of the houses, with the walls and platforms heavily damaged.

The following year, in June 2006, an equally powerful flood refilled the crawl space with silt.

Thousands of victims in the poor, unstable state were already in camps for the displaced, including one in Kalay, Sagaing region, where residents described powerful flood waters swamping homes within hours.

Millions of people across the mid-Atlantic region struggled to recover from widespread storm damage on Tuesday amid power failures, high winds, downed trees and powerful flooding.

West Virginia adversity became a sort of beat for Byers: coal's downsizing, the powerful floods that now regularly plague the region, the opioid epidemic that continues to ravage its small towns, the Donald Trump-like billionaire that has turned the governorship into a kind of performance art.

These threats may be powerful – floods in the Philippines, earthquakes in Haiti – but they aren't deliberate.

Many restaurant employees once lived in the Lower Ninth Ward, where powerful floods reduced frame houses to kindling and scattered the workers to the winds.

In North Carolina, a powerful storm surge flooded large portions of Portsmouth Island; residents estimated the island would have been completely under water had the worst of the storm lasted for two more hours.

As chemical flooding becomes more attractive due to increased oil prices and advances in chemical production, the need for a powerful and comprehensive chemical flood simulator increases.

The demography that swept President Obama back into office is, in fact, the same demography that Kotkin and Sharma recognize as a powerful economic force: a flood tide of younger, child-producing men and women, many from overseas.