Sentence examples for destructive floods. from inspiring English sources
Mountain cloudbursts cause sudden and destructive floods.
In the summer of 2010 Pakistan faced the most destructive floods in the country's recorded history.
Imperiously, Congress ordered the commission to "prevent destructive floods," and left it to the Corps to say how.
Following destructive floods at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1889 and Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1937, the federal government built a series of flood-control dams.
They form far out over the Indian Ocean, especially from December to March, and approach the eastern coast, bringing torrential rains and destructive floods.
They are being battered by stronger storms, more destructive floods, deeper and longer droughts and disruptive switches in the seasonal timing of rain.
In 1882 came the most destructive flood of the nineteenth century.
Periodic flooding of the Ohio necessitated extensive protection work; a destructive flood in 1937 caused widespread damage.
He called it his Noah's Ark plan, to prepare for the destructive flood that China might experience.
Recent destructive flood events in the Lower Mekong River Basin occurred in 2000, 2011, 2013, and 2016 (http://ffw.mrcmekong.org/historical_rec.htm, April 24 , 2017.
The earliest and most destructive flood recorded there came in 1868, when the river rose five feet in 10 minutes and killed 43 people.
