Example Sentences

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Earlier, it urged residents to move their cars from the town centre, where streets had been flooding.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2023

Darling told me that responses to her ad had been flooding in, and “99 percent of them” had been positive.

From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2022

There had been flooding in their village of Majooki more than a decade ago, and they hadn’t needed to flee.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2022

There had been flooding in the Midwest, befuddlement over the path of a tropical storm and devastation in the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2019

The noise, which had been flooding into the room over the speaker system, died instantly.

From Anything You Can Do! by Garrett, Randall