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How to use inundate in a sentence

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Inundate means to cover with large amounts of water; to flood. Example: “The Dutch would sometimes inundate the land to hinder the Spanish army.”

Examples of inundate by meaning

verbTo cover with large amounts of water; to flood.

  • The Dutch would sometimes inundate the land to hinder the Spanish army.

verbTo overwhelm.

  • The agency was inundated with phone calls.
  • That books are pouring off the world’s presses at unprecedented rates is a fact often alluded to as a flood that is inundating libraries and the book trades.1972, Carol A. Nemeyer, Scholarly Reprint Publishing in the United States, New York, N.Y.: R. R. Bowker Co., →ISBN, page 8

More sentences with inundate

  • The island was inundated by the sea, leaving not a trace behind.From the entry behind
  • The Budd family has been inundated with pictures of school projects where students find levidromes.2018 January 29, “B.C. boy's invented word gaining traction, celebrity endorsements”, in CTV News, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2018. From the entry levidrome
  • A similar situation unfolded two decades ago in Sausalito, Calif., when houseboaters were inundated with toadfish calls.2008 April 8, Nonny De La Pe, “What’s Making That Awful Racket? Surprisingly, It May Be Fish”, in New York Times. From the entry houseboater
  • Primarily a wetland wood, bubinga thrives in swamps, inundated forests and near rivers and lakes.1988, Wood and Wood Products, volume 93. From the entry bubinga
  • Beatlemania took England and Europe by storm and proceeded to inundate American teenagers.1969, Arnold Shaw, The Rock Revolution, page 1. From the entry take by storm
  • “We desperately needed the nursing support because our ICUs are so inundated with critically ill Covid patients,” Brown said.2021 August 14, Christina Maxouris, “‘Bursting at the seams’: Full ICUs are creating a dangerous ER backlog and forcing hospitals to…. From the entry ill
  • We were inundated with thousands of disgusterous entries!2017, Revolting Rhymers: Competition Winners, →ISBN. From the entry disgusterous
  • It’s not true that Americans love hogwash— it’s that hogwash inundates Americans, whether they want it or not!2016, T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell, The China Study: Revised and Expanded Edition, BenBella Books, Inc., page 214. From the entry hogwash
  • In setting out to discover who would dare inundate his property, he received a firsthand lesson in marble-cake federalism.1991, Jack E. Holmes, Michael J. Engelhardt, Robert E. Elder, American Government: Essentials & Perspectives, McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN…. From the entry marble-cake federalism
  • Inundated with anti-Semitic tweets and frustrated by Twitter's initial response, New York Times editor Jon Weisman is packing up and leaving the social media platform.2016 June 8, Tom Kludt, “New York Times editor quits Twitter over anti-Semitic tweets”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 26…. From the entry Jon
  • There is no equilibrium, so when it rains, towns get inundated and disappear, and when we have a revolution, half the population dies."1989 July 30, Larry Rohter, “Theater: In Latin America, Headlines Inspire The Drama”, in New York Times, retrieved 05 Mar 2014. From the entry by halves
  • Give us a bit." The BBC was inundated with calls and letters wishing the happy couple every happiness in their future together.1967, Encounter - Volume 29, page 95. From the entry be a devil
  • We oppose the Lovewell Dam because the dam will inundate almost as much rich fertile ground as it will irrigate this land containing alkali salts.1955, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Hearings, volume 2, page 487. From the entry proirrigation
  • As a result, the loose mud is churned up by every tide and the water that inundates the merse always contains much mud in suspension.1926, The Journal of Ecology, volumes 14-15, page 312. From the entry merse
  • "This is the heaviest rain since I was born, with so many familiar places flooded," said an internet user in the inundated city of Gongyi on Chinese social media.2021 July 20, Ryan Woo, “Dozen central Chinese cities under water as river banks burst”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from…. From the entry Gongyi
  • Inundated by too many of them, we tend to ignore them completely, to accept them blithely, to disbelieve them closemindedly, or simply to misinterpret their significance.2010, Wayne Weiten, Psychology: Themes and Variations, Briefer Edition, →ISBN, page 444. From the entry closemindedly

Meaning of inundate

  1. verb To cover with large amounts of water; to flood.
  2. verb To overwhelm.

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Questions about inundate in a sentence

How do you use inundate in a sentence?
Inundate is used as a verb. For example: “The Dutch would sometimes inundate the land to hinder the Spanish army.”
What is a short sentence with inundate?
“The agency was inundated with phone calls.”
What does inundate mean?
Inundate means to cover with large amounts of water; to flood.

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