Example Sentences

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Like Malcolm’s canoe, the sentence is formed with care, beautifully engineered to do precisely what it should; it is also floodlike, with a momentum, flow, and rhythm that flicks the reader along.

From Slate • Oct. 18, 2017

In a burned area, a wildfire can make the soils repellent to water, creating a floodlike flow on the ground that picks up rock and debris, Kean said. 

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2017

The vibrations there of many spiritually seeking souls come floodlike to me.

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa

And when Sunday morning dawned and the floodlike downpour had subsided to a gray and steady rainfall, even Caleb, none too weatherwise, knew that it had come to "stay fer a spell."

From Then I'll Come Back to You by Evans, Larry