Example Sentences
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Deluged with demands for help and desperate to provide abortion assistance to the hundreds of women seeking relief, the Cleveland CCS did not follow their own best practices.
From Slate • Jun. 21, 2022
Deluged by demands for cuts in police spending, the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 5, 2020
Deluged by introductions, we started giggling, handing our hands around: “Nilson, Pauley, Villanueva, Obadiah, Acker . . .”
From The New Yorker • Jun. 1, 2015
Deluged with résumés from job seekers, she hopes to complete the conference staff in the next 30 to 60 days.
From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2013
Himself, roll'd from his seat, fast by the wheel With lacerated elbows, nostrils, mouth, And batter'd brows lay prone; sorrow his eyes Deluged, and disappointment chok'd his voice.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William
