Sentence examples for under a flood from inspiring English sources

Rome was under a flood alert but the storm apparently caused little damage in the capital.

Both house and Caesar salads arrived under a flood of dressing.

Late Turner – Painting Set Free drowns such quibbles under a flood of raw wild paint.

The latest box office hit is "Goodbye, Lenin," a bittersweet comedy about a loyal son trying to recreate an East German life for his dying mother, as her society crumbles under a flood of western goods and Deutsche marks.

As the lower pressure system was moving eastward, Washington and the Baltimore area were under a flood watch, with one to two inches of rain expected by Saturday morning.

The change came after government computers set up to handle the filings buckled under a flood of dealers trying to send in their sales agreements at the last minute.

The section of the Washington Mall where we rallied against the pipeline this winter already has a big construction project under way: a flood barrier to keep the rising Potomac river out of downtown DC).

Swamped by uninsured laborers flocking to dangerous jobs, medical facilities in the area are sinking under skyrocketing debt, a flood of gruesome injuries and bloated business costs from the inflated economy.

Under pressure from a flood of immigrants from neighboring Eastern Europe, particularly from wartime Yugoslavia, Austria had severely restricted its liberal asylum and immigration laws even before the Freedom Party of Jorg Haider entered government in Vienna in February.

Set in an unspecified ancient Asian kingdom, Ms. Cixous's play tells the story of characters who live under the threat of a flood that could kill them all at any moment.

Yet, once the more general principle is accepted, it is reasonable to worry about whether antidiscrimination (and other) laws would be undermined, and equality under law subverted, by a flood of exceptions.