"flood" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Because of oscillating water levels and regular floods, many settlements are built on stilts (Palafitas).
- The town experiences regular floods usually in the month of May.
- Flash floods are distinguished from a regular flood by a timescale of less than six hours.
- Rather, they stand in solidarity with one another during the regular floods of the Drina.
- The town is subject to regular floods and is protected by a levee bank.
- But when the river flowed naturally, regular floods carried silt from the heartland into the marshes, maintaining their elevation.
- Industrial development of the 19th century was slow, due to the regular floods.
- No doubt they were expected to wash away with the regular seasonal floods, for they could certainly be "rebuilt"-if that wasn't too grand a term-easily enough.
- The small River Chelt flows under and through the town and is subject to regular floods.
- Only regular floods of muddy water can replenish the sediment and keep the landscape above water.
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