flood
noun
a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged.
were flooding
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past progressiveof flood.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The Commerce Department has been inspecting them since the mid-1990s, when it found that many importers were flooding the U.S. with pasta priced below normal market prices in a bid to undercut their U.S. competitors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025
Parents were flooding the phone lines to check on kids — which also happened at other schools, including Aldama.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2024
No, we weren’t afraid of the campers; we were nervous about the neighbors who were flooding the church with angry phone calls and emails.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
Cavusoglu was commenting on claims that Syrians were flooding into Turkey following last Monday's 7.8 magnitude earthquake which has killed more than 37,000 in the two countries.
From Reuters ● Feb. 13, 2023
I got my laptop out from under the bed and fired it up and went onto his wall page, where already the condolences were flooding in.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
