Sentence examples for flood around from inspiring English sources

This would flood around 400 square kilometres.

IN 1607 a sudden flood around the Bristol Channel in south-west Britain killed at least 2,000 people.

A century ago Venice – one of the most beautiful and low-lying cities in the world – used to flood around 10 times a year.

Ms. Yingluck acknowledged on Thursday that efforts to divert the flood around Bangkok were failing, and she said the government would now attempt a controlled release that would allow floodwaters to drain through some areas of the city.

Nonetheless, I didn't expect it to come with its own built-in flood: around midnight, biblical torrents of water suddenly erupted from somewhere underneath, and the bathroom was quickly a lake.

The simulation serves a primitive ideology known as "young-earth creationism," which promotes the idea that the earth is just over six thousand years old and that the fossil record appeared after the Flood, around 4300 B.C.

But the researchers surveyed an additional number of people in an area that was particularly affected by flooding (around Ceredigion).

At the peak of the flooding, around 1 p.m., sections of the Van Wyck and Long Island Expressways and the Grand Central Parkway were closed, the State Transportation Department said.

"Roads are flooded around," Tupaj told local news station 11 Alive, adding that rescuers would likely need boats to reach them.

But the flood took around a third of her plants.

Nova's "Flood!" ( //www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/flood/) examines the effect of floods around the world and through history.