floodplain
Americannoun
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Vocabulary lists containing floodplain
Human Geography - Middle School
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Example Sentences
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Eventually, they were overtaken, falling silent to the noisy ambitions of foreigners and settlers who set about transforming this vast floodplain with imported water and orchards and homes.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025
They pointed to millions more spent on other prevention efforts, including flood control dam construction and maintenance, regional flood projects, and increased floodplain disclosures and drainage requirements for border counties.
From Salon • Jul. 22, 2025
Parts of Mandalay and its buildings also lie along the floodplain of the Ayerwaddy River.
From BBC • Mar. 29, 2025
These tyrannosaurs would have been around a third of the size of their famous cousin Tyrannosaurus rex, and likely hunted small dinosaurs and other reptiles in their floodplain habitat.
From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2024
Farmers in the floodplain build houses and barns on stilts.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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