Sentence examples for sweeping flood from inspiring English sources

My favourite short story – today – is Upon the Sweeping Flood by Joyce Carol Oates.

Her first novel, With Shuddering Fall, appeared in 1964 and was followed by a second short-story collection, Upon the Sweeping Flood (1965).

• "Upon the Sweeping Flood," by Joyce Carol Oates.

"Upon the Sweeping Flood," by Joyce Carol Oates.

And the main thing that had been putting me off her was just this, the sweeping flood of her productivity.

The Tattooed Girl by Joyce Carol Oates 320pp, Fourth Estate, £16.99 Before starting The Tattooed Girl, I was pretty much a Joyce Carol Oates virgin: I'd read a few of her short stories, including the most famous, "Upon the Sweeping Flood".

They formed a sea of yellow, which lapped against the landmarks of the capital before sweeping, in a flood tide, across the east end of the Stadium.

The reservoir model is then coupled with a nonlinear sequential data assimilation scheme for tracking the fluid front dynamics to maximize the water flood sweeping efficiency by controlling the injection rates.

Huibers was swept away by the idea 20 years ago after dreaming about a great flood sweeping Holland.

In December 1816 rapidly thawing snow caused the river to flood, sweeping away a considerable amount of property including building materials and livestock.

Main Street turned into a raging river, the floods sweeping away dozens of homes and businesses.