Sentence examples for received floods from inspiring English sources

Conservative talk-radio show hosts and bloggers have denounced it, newspaper editorials have inveighed against it — The Times-Picayune of New Orleans called the increase "greedy" and its main proponent "shameless" — and the legislators themselves received floods of e-mail messages from angry constituents.

A spokeswoman for North Lincolnshire Council said: "The council has received flooding along the South Humber Bank.Affected residents in Winteringham are advised to go to The Pods in Scunthorpe.

Sgt. Keith Reinhard of the Brick Township Police Department said that areas that usually received flooding saw waters slightly higher than normal, but that as far as he could tell, only streets, rather than homes, were affected.

Many people with homes built before the first flood maps were drawn — in New York, for instance, that's Dec. 31, 1974 — have long received flood insurance at subsidized rates that did not reflect the property's true risk (though only about 20 percent of flood policy holders nationwide receive these subsidies, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency).

Some parts of the country have received flood warnings when we would normally be readying ourselves for garden parties and barbecues.

Many highways received flooding.

The capital city of San José received flooding.

Transport suffered severely: several main roads, including part of the Trans-Canada Highway and Nova Scotia Highway 102, in northeastern Nova Scotia received flood damage and were temporarily blocked off.

Most of the deaths from the hurricane were due to the dam failure; streets also received flooding from the dam burst.

A veteran's advice on the best way to wear a Remembrance Day poppy has gone viral online, receiving floods of comments from around the world.

Europe is receiving floods of migrants, but it is expelling many too.