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How to use the word inundation in a Sentence?

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Those areas that are already vulnerable following last week’s weather are expected to see more rain, strong wind, heavy swells and coastal inundation which will exacerbate the situation, if the cyclone continues on its current path towards the north of Aotearoa New Zealand, we can expect this to be an extreme weather event with widespread damage.

Lisa Murray

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is not good news for communities, businesses, homeowners, and renters who are living or operating out of buildings and dwellings that are at risk from inundation.

Mark Gibbs

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Weve long suspected processes like shoreline erosion, waves overtopping and inundation would be additional factors for Hawaii, we found out it covers a lot more land ... I wasnt expecting such a large increase due to these other two processes.

Tiffany Anderson

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

This will be heartbreaking to these communities that have been experiencing years of drought only to see that turn into a torrential inundation.

Scott Morrison

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Today, the ancient tombs of the royal burial complexes are one of the few parts of the ancient Leluh site that remain intact, much of the historical site is overgrown by the tropical forest and has succumbed to hundreds of years of tropical weather and tidal inundation, and some parts of the site have been dismantled and reused in modern construction.

Zoe Richards

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's not one of these snow-melt events, it's the inundation of rain over the last 24 hours.

Dave Porter

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Right now we're experiencing total inundation of areas that previously were not vulnerable to normal tides, we're getting something called King Tides -- extremely high tides. These were non-existent when I was a boy.

Andrew Teem

Found on CNN
9 years ago

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

Saadi

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A little and a little, collected together, become a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop makes an inundation.

Saadi

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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