Sentence examples for town was flooded from inspiring English sources

The town was flooded by the German forces during World War II.

Crocker, a Vietnam vet with a dry sense of bush humour, was born and raised in Jindabyne, long before the old town was flooded.

The border town was flooded by a sea of crates, a shadow-city with its own dark streets and dead-end squares.

An Associated Press reporter who arrived in Shetpe on Sunday said the town was flooded with police officers, some of whom tried to restrict the movement of visiting journalists.

Eduardo Gamez, a Nicaraguan who left his country hours before his town was flooded by the waters of a nearby river, said he was surprised to learn of the magnitude of the disaster when his plane landed in New York on Saturday afternoon.

Bert Wäfler, 23, who works out of a small wooden shop jammed with bicycles for sale and hire, recalled wistfully the busy days of construction, when the town was flooded with 1,200 or so workers, many of them employees of big Austrian contractors.

Others do the same, and as the town is flooded.

San Francisco, America's boom town, is flooded with the cash of well-paid technology workers and record numbers of tourists.

The seawall at the capital city of Colonia was damaged, and portions of the town were flooded 1.5 m (5 ft) deep.

That was mandatory: villages and towns were flooded, and people had no choice but to move.

Local towns were flooded, trains washed off their tracks and six electricity stations put out of action.