was inundating
- past progressive of inundate.
Example Sentences
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A friend and colleague of the singer told the AP that she remembered the singer saying Domingo was inundating her with calls and ignoring requests to stop.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 13, 2019
The capital's swamped switchboards were an indication of what was inundating Washington: a flood of people and business.
From Time Magazine Archive
She hovered over the two minarets of the Trocadero and the metal tower of the Champ de Mars, where the enormous reflector was inundating the whole capital with its electric rays.
From Robur the Conqueror by Verne, Jules
The mellow coloring of the third evening which Claud Cranmer had spent at Poole Farm was inundating the valley with its warm floods of light.
From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie
It was the end of January, 1910, that saw me approaching this house, built on Brazilian terra firma—or rather terra aqua, for water was inundating the entire land.
From In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians by Lange, Algot
