Sentence examples for overflowed by from inspiring English sources

It was communicated to me by the elder Vaillant, who discovered it in 1755 on some raised ground which was never overflowed by the highest tides, and is formed of a very fine white sand, covered with a thin stratum of earth.

It is the general impression that these everglades are uninhabitable during the summer months, by reason of their being overflowed by the abundant rains of the season; but if it should prove that these inundations are caused or increased by obstructions to the natural courses of the rivers, as outlets to the numerous lakes, American industry will remove these obstructions.

The Halle zoo was not overflowed by the flood.

This may be due to the particularly mild mortality impact of the pandemic 2009 in France, which, with regards to non specific mortality, was overflowed by the mortality attributable to other cause [ 11].

He added that when they are finished in 2013, "upgrades to the canal's flushing tunnel and pumping station will cut combined sewer overflows by 34 percent".

Along with other cities, New York City is trying to curb the problem of combined sewage overflows by building underground reservoirs that work almost like bladders.

Using the Clean Water Act, Puget Soundkeeper forced the City of Bremerton, Washington, to reduce the volume of its combined sewer overflows by 99percentt, which directly led to the reopening of nearby commercial shellfish beds in Puget Sound.

DURING its first three seasons "The Game," the dramedy about professional football players and the women who barely tolerate them, overflowed with cameos by black celebrities.

When Doherty treated them to the Libertines classic "What a Waster", however, their enthusiasm overflowed, matched only by their reaction to one-song encore "Time For Heroes".

Farther south in Williamson, the river overflowed its banks by about 3 feet.

Of the 5,000 properties damaged in the extreme weather events of this summer and autumn, more than half were hit not by overflowing rivers but by surface water.