Sentence examples for flooded like from inspiring English sources

"It has never flooded like this — never, never, never.

He added, "Every side of my building was flooded, like 5 or 6 feet".

The Bells themselves were living in a white trailer supplied by FEMA (after storms, the agency deposits them on the lawns of the flooded, like condolence boxes), which they were entitled to use for only eighteen months.

"Thank God we're not flooded like some people but it's still an issue because it's sewage".

But even in elite Juhu, parts of which get flooded like the rest of Bombay (and all of Dharavi) it is possible to see Bombay's abject poverty from the tinted glass of a chauffer driven and air-conditioned car.

Update: Devin just showed up and says it's been flooding like crazy today and another storm is set to barrel through.

Visiting the Devon village of Buckfastleigh, which was flooded at the weekend, Mr Cameron said: "It is obviously very traumatic when communities are hit by flooding like this... and now we need to help them with the recovery.

Over 1,300 other coal ash piles around the country slump during these winter and spring months of freezing and flooding like calamities waiting to happen.

That might have been the extent of things, but for his Curt Flood-like determination to test senior softball's free-agent system.

Mencius (2A2) famously refers to "cultivating flood-like qi" and the third chapter of the Zhuangzi is titled "The Lord of Nurturing Life" (Yang sheng zhu).

Evapotranspiration (ET) rates are high in P. australis which also helps protect plants under inundation (Borin et al. 2011) during flood-like conditions (Ostendorp et al. 2001); however, strong flooding can cause damage by separating leaves from the air supply.