Sentence examples for mighty flood from inspiring English sources

A "mighty flood" comes upon Tupelo, surprising everyone.

He had been recently torn from his family by a mighty flood of water and swept kilometers away to a strange, ruined village on Aceh's western coast.

In this way poor stratospheric has been lowered, wretched abysmal has been raised, and cataclysmic (in the manner of a mighty flood) now mops up after workaday exaggerations.

The fanciful notion behind "The Last Two People" is that a mighty flood has washed humanity off the planet, except for two bedraggled survivors whose only common language, they discover, is song and dance.

Some are based on odd bits of fact: doves descend in vast numbers to devour the grain in the fields; a female outlaw rustles a pig; during a bank robbery, a woman is held hostage and the sheriff shoots her in the hip; the Red River expands in a mighty flood.

The crest of the mighty flood, probably the worst ever to wash over the United States, roiled down the Mississippi past Cairo, Ill., today, and from there south the swollen waters will steadily lose their deadly potency because the river bottom widens drastically.

And when a mighty storm floods the riverbank, we discover that he can make his way through the swamps, too.

Dongting Lake adjoins the Yangtze and serves as a natural spillover for the mighty river during flood season.

"Mud, fog, dripping trees, blackness, floods, mighty rushing winds under doors that don't fit, damp hassocks, sticking organ keys, stone floors and that dreadful smell of decay.

So while residents in northeastern Pennsylvania are reassured that the mighty Susquehanna River will not flood this time around, emergency officials say they remain worried about the potential for flash floods.

Designed to control the flooding of the mighty river, the dam produces vast amounts of electricity - the equivalent of 11 nuclear power stations.