Sentence examples for on a flooding from inspiring English sources

In states throughout the south central United States, the Mississippi river went on a flooding rampage the likes of which had not been seen since the 1930s.

Another time, on a flooding bulk carrier staggering across the North Sea, he had to grope blindly underwater to deactivate a haywire pump.

And it's fitting, too, since James Tyler macabrely told me he imagines seeing it installed someday on a flooding island overwhelmed by rising sea levels – or maybe "on a melting glacier" – once global warming gets more intense.

Launch from Earnse Point – at the northern end of Walney Island – on a flooding tide, and then gain sea-room, so you have the choice to either avoid or play on the surf that forms over Duddon Bar.

The landings were scheduled to start at 06:30, "H-Hour", on a flooding tide, preceded by a 40-minute naval and 30-minute aerial bombardment of the beach defenses, with the DD tanks arriving five minutes before H-Hour.

A teenage "wakeboarder" takes on a flood.

A newly discovered type of art inevitably brings on a flood of forgeries.

The Jamam camp sits on a flood plain just inside the contested border between Sudan and the newly independent nation of South Sudan.

Tourism officials counted on a flood of visitors.The stadiums are there, but for most of the 51 matches they were nearly empty.

We live in a period of fantastically lucrative films, which sail triumphantly into theaters, one after the other, on a flood of venture capital and marketing dollars.

Immediately after a severe flood, most people are reluctant to build on a flood plain.