Sentence examples for floods of the from inspiring English sources

"We're faced with what could be the floods of the century," a government spokesman said.

The unprecedented floods of the past few weeks should be a wake-up call.

Tells about the devastating floods of the past, which are now prevented.

Mr Moss contrasts the response to two floods of the Mississippi in the last century.

In populated areas, levees were a necessary response to the cataclysmic floods of the 1920s.

Historically, several catastrophic floods of the Brisbane River have occurred, notably in 1893 and 1974.

The bridge was originally built in 1673 to afford residents an escape from floods of the river.

Still overshadowed by annual weeds, they are struggling to establish roots under the perennial floods of the bayou.

It was a shabby scene of waste left by the devastating 1991 floods of the Shin Yang Jiang River, a tributary of the Yangtze.

And in 1995, with the economy already in steep decline, the country suffered its worst floods of the century, devastating crops and unleashing a famine.

Eastern Germans who live up and down the Mulde and its swollen sister, the Elbe, are finding a silver lining in the floods of the past month.