Sentence examples for areas were flooded from inspiring English sources

Lowland areas were flooded, as in parts of Baltica.

In north Wales, about 50 properties in the Conwy Valley, Llanrwst and Trefriw areas were flooded.

But it was also because public areas were flooded with police and the military and because a range of worrying tactics were used to suppress protest.

The storm raged from the Carolinas into New England, with gale winds pushing ocean tides so high that coastal areas were flooded.

In the melting periods between ice ages, large areas were flooded by the sea because the enormous weight of the ice had depressed the land.

As a last expedient the polders, or low-lying areas, were flooded, and William, with his few unseasoned troops, was left to defend the "water line".

Lawless areas are flooded with police, social workers and probation officers.

And the Agriculture Department would lose $114 million in disaster assistance to help farmers recover livestock, crops and equipment, an impact that would be particularly felt in Texas, where farm areas are flooded.

What now occurs just a few times a year during the King tide, where low-lying areas are flooded beyond recognition, will someday be the year-round reality.

Such rapid buildups are a result of extreme weather conditions or of rice fields in semi-arid areas being flooded before rice is transplanted.

The areas are flooded through levee or embankment overtopping using water intakes through man-made openings along the river or by pumping, thus changing uncontrolled irrigation to controlled.