Example Sentences

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On a recent Monday, they were out in the remaining unflooded acreage, irrigating cotton and cutting alfalfa.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2023

Cars, minibuses and trucks carrying goods jostled to traverse an unflooded patch of road after the Benue River broke its banks in the city of Lokoja on Oct.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2022

He noted that there was a smattering of cars driving on unflooded streets far below.

From Washington Post • Sep. 11, 2017

"Even in unflooded areas," he says, "the trauma of Katrina jostled people out of households."

From National Geographic • Aug. 19, 2015

The swallows were making a jubilant twitter, the larks singing on the edge of the prairie—the glorious prairie, which the giants of the unflooded world had cleared off and leveled for the dwelling-place of Liberty.

From Winter Evening Tales by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston