Sentence examples for the floodgates opened from inspiring English sources

Idiom

Open the floodgates.

If you open the floodgates, you make something possible to happen that had been difficult, illegal or impossible.

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However, once Lampard bundled home the opener two minutes after the break, the floodgates opened.

Then the floodgates opened.

And then the floodgates opened.

After this, the floodgates opened.

Then the floodgates opened up".

The floodgates opened the following inning.

And slowly the floodgates opened.

"After Erykah, the floodgates opened.

I nodded, and the floodgates opened.

Then, in 2005, the floodgates opened.

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The sound of accusations flying in Rotherham could just be the sound of the floodgates opening.

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