Sentence examples for off the flood from inspiring English sources

The summer thunderstorm that set off the flood did not affect the park.

Yellen's most crucial dilemma will be to decide when – or how – to turn off the flood of cheap money the Fed has been pouring into the US economy – at a rate of $85bn a month – to kickstart America's recovery.

Their present-day counterparts may come to agree with that if cutting off the flood of soft money just opens new loopholes for people with cash to spare and influence to gain.

Nor do they excuse the acknowledged missteps at the United States' bulked-up security agencies that helped allow a makeshift bomb to be carried onto a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines plane on Christmas Day — the attempted attack that set off the flood of news coverage.

Time for some desperately needed good news, everybody: Netflix is gracing us with five incredible-sounding new anime to take our minds off the flood of terrible things happening all around us.

The room feels like a hollowed paddle-wheeler, and it's easy to imagine it taking off on the flood, rocking in a storm.

Moreover, newly storm-proofed pumps can drain off the flooding with relative speed.

Heavy rains set off the flooding Saturday that caught many people asleep in their homes.

The monsoon rains that set off the flooding are forecast to fall for several weeks yet, meaning the worst may not be over.

"What a mess," one builder said, as he and dozens of others jostled to pile onto the back of a cattle truck - one of the few vehicles able to get off the flooded peninsula.

Local opposition has held off the flooding of 42,000 acres of fields and forests, home to 21 communities and such abundant animal and plant life that the National Biodiversity Commission lists it as a conservation priority.