Sentence examples for enormous floods from inspiring English sources

Simple mechanical wear and tear can threaten enormous floods, according to Iowa's Department of Natural Resources.

In April, Cornell students presented another candidate landing site, Mawrth Vallis, which sits at the boundary between the southern highlands and northern lowlands of Mars – pocked by a spillway sculpted by enormous floods.

Famine, hunger, poverty and economic failure have increased beyond measure, at least in this corner of the world, where the Sept. 11 plans were hatched, while climate change has set off enormous floods and drought brings untold misery to millions in unexpected places.

In 858, enormous floods along the Grand Canal inundated vast tracts of land and terrain of the North China Plain, which drowned tens of thousands of people in the process.

"There would be an enormous flood," said Tonci Pletikosic, a member of Sinj's town council.

The world, in their telling, was meticulously constructed by two deities and then arbitrarily washed away by an enormous flood.

But he was expecting an enormous flood of mail, and refused to predict when service would return to normal.

Moderate monsoon rains caused such enormous flooding that the whole city was shut down for three days.

End Permian: Enormous flood basalt eruptions, possibly resulting in a clathrate and/or carbon dioxide marine catastrophe, and a global warming that lasted for several million years.

After an enormous flood in 1927, the southern stretch of the river was deemed part of a project area, and ordered to have levees designed by the Corps of Engineers.

"This suggests that we will find settlements all along that submerged coast," Dr. Hiebert said, indicating that this might support the Ryan-Pitman hypothesis of an enormous flood.