Sentence examples for flood line from inspiring English sources

It instantly updated local building codes that require new development to be above the flood line.

For as long as the trees stand, that abrupt shift will mark the flood line.

Before the waters receded, the flood line in downtown Providence reached 17 feet above street level.

We walked along a narrow strip of scrubland, above the flood line, scattering the seeds left and right.

Untold coats of colored paint form a flood line around the perimeter of the room, marring that white cube and trickling to the floor.

Arabi was all but destroyed; if you look up in the corner of the building's cafeteria, maybe 14 feet up, you will see the flood line.

The flood lines, seen close up, are painterly, their drip marks seeming to betray an artist's hand, and the blooms of mold come in a range of colors; each frame looks like a work of abstract art.

Buying an edition of Dante's Divine Comedy in Florence as a student, I was struck by its resemblance to the flood lines marked on the side of buildings to commemorate the great flood of 1966: sometimes the footnotes would creep almost all the way to the top of the page, leaving only one or two lines of actual text.

Nose dive in the flood lines.

The flood lines were over six feet high.

Southern rail passengers were most severely affected by the flooded line at Wandsworth Common, with disruption likely to continue until the end of services on Thursday night.