Sentence examples for flood town from inspiring English sources

Other residents and merchants are tired of Bound Brook bearing the label of Flood Town U.S.A.

Opponents had said the Ilisu dam on the Tigris River would displace 30,000 people and flood towns and the historic Hasenkeyf monument.

BHP's woes were worsened by a mining disaster at a joint venture in Brazil when a burst dam caused toxic iron waste to flood towns and villages, killing at least 13.

The committee is also directing supporters to flood town-hall meetings this week while the House is in recess, going so far as to post a schedule of Republican events on a new website.

One of the towns, Tel Skuf, is 15km from the Mosul dam – Iraq's largest – which IS took control of earlier this month, giving them the ability to both cut off water and electricity supplies, and flood towns.

Fed-up citizens have flooded town halls.

Opponents flooded town meetings and protested that Little League's approach to baseball is too competitive.

A flooded town in Oregon was cut off by landslides, and the authorities tried to evacuate it.

Up in the mountains, helicopters flown by the National Guard skimmed over ravaged roads to pluck scores of stranded residents from the flooded town of Jamestown.

In Jamaica, another badly flooded town about 15 miles north, local contractors and other residents built a temporary road in eight hours on Monday.

The storm ripped away a bridge in the flooded town of Petit Goave, preventing any road travel to the hard-hit south-west.