Example Sentences

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This would matter less if American workers were flooding into the workplace to take their place, but there’s little evidence of that.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

At the same time, no one could believe how many guns were flooding in.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2024

Some 21,000 people in the flood zone remained under evacuation orders or warnings, and other rivers were flooding tracts of farmland elsewhere in the county, officials said.

From Reuters • Mar. 15, 2023

Presumably, the memories of everything she and her teammates had experienced at Hec Ed — including an upset of then No. 2 Stanford two weeks earlier — were flooding her mind.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 19, 2023

He tried to keep talking, but the memories of what had come out of Voldemort’s wand were flooding into his mind.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling