Sentence examples for flooding streets from inspiring English sources

The River Eden burst its banks in Appleby, Cumbria, flooding streets at waist-height and destroying several homes.

Last month, power shortages caused a major spill at Gaza's main sewage treatment plant, flooding streets in rancid waste.

This time, the authorities' precautions included declaring a three-day holiday, closing businesses and government offices and flooding streets with police officers.

The once-ubiquitous government, he said, now appears to have no role beyond flooding streets with soldiers and security officers, "who are sometimes good and sometimes rude".

Typhoon Nari swamped Taiwan's capital, Taipei, with record amounts of rain on Monday and Tuesday, killing 79 people, flooding streets, and shutting factories across Taiwan.

Hurricane Marty weakened slightly as it headed toward Mexico's Pacific coast after knocking out power, flooding streets and flattening trees on the southern Baja California peninsula.

The water does more than flood streets.

Recently imported cars idle on congested, often flooded, streets.

Chunks of wood floated down flooded streets like crude rafts.

And flooded streets are just one possible outcome.

Chunks of woods floated down the flooded streets like crudely constructed rafts.