Sentence examples for some floodgates from inspiring English sources

Rig up some floodgates to push the animals to their doom(whatever you desire).

But with suburbs to the north of the city now under water, the government was forced to open some of the floodgates on Thursday.

The flooding was alleviated at the Possum Kingdom Lake, as the lake was already down 6 feet from normal and some of the floodgates there were opened, taking most of the water from the flood.

Still, the lawsuit has heightened a fear in some homeowners that the floodgates might open and just about anyone would be able to get in.

The nature of the World Wide Web -- where information flows with less filtering by media gatekeepers -- in some ways opens the floodgates.

If we start opening the floodgates on some of these glaciers, even if we stop our emissions, even if we go back to a better climate, the damage is going to be done.

Most of that money — $800 million — would go toward making parts of the electricity-distribution system more water-resistant: raising some equipment off the ground or surrounding it with higher floodgates and burying some overhead wires, the company said.

ATLANTA — Floodwater that is moving slower than anticipated and a conservative hand on the floodgates is easing some of the concern in a nervous Louisiana.

Less than three weeks later, President Obama announced the easing of some Cuban travel restrictions and the floodgates opened.

Six floodgates permit a discharge of some 335,000 cubic feet of water per second.

The report recommends the construction of sea walls, floodgates and pumping stations; elevating some bridges; outfitting tunnels with engineered flood protection; and other huge capital investments in infrastructure.