How to Use floodgate in a Sentence

floodgate

noun

• The floodgates opened, and the Knicks never looked back.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 13 June 2024
• The play seemed to inspire the young team and open the floodgates as the offense got rolling.
  — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• The floodgates will open for both teams against these ‘tendies.
  — Esten McLaren, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 31 Dec. 2019
• The floodgates opened after that as the team sent eight batters to the plate in the home half of the fifth and 10 in the sixth.
  — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2020
• The next day, Chris walked to the car with his wife, who was fending off the floodgates.
  — C Jackson Cowart, charlotteobserver, 27 May 2017
• CdM opened the floodgates by scoring five runs in the second and six in the third to take a 12-0 lead.
  — Manny Alvarez, latimes.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• The new mill owners closed the floodgates on the west end of the dam, which reduced flow along the banks of Mill Pond.
  — Betsy Mason, National Geographic, 13 June 2017
• The new mill owners closed the floodgates on the west end of the dam, which reduced flow along the banks of Mill Pond.
  — Betsy Mason, National Geographic, 13 June 2017
• With the floodgates now open, expect the U.K. charts to be awash with Christmas cuts in the weeks ahead.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 13 Nov. 2023
• The floodgates may already have opened, and we just don’t know it yet.
  — Emily Atkin, New Republic, 3 July 2017
• The 1937-era main dam with floodgates was built north of an island in the river.
  — Don Behm, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Apr. 2018
• The one run didn’t initially open the floodgates for more.
  — Ryan Divish, The Seattle Times, 28 May 2017
• Photo: richard mackson/Reuters From there, the floodgates opened in the ninth.
  — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2018
• In other words: now that the verdict is in, expect the floodgates to open.
  — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 15 May 2018
• The floodgates opened after that, and the Dodgers cruised to victory.
  — cleveland.com, 15 June 2017
• That’s when the floodgates opened and the Kraken took a tie game to a 4-0 lead in less than half a period.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 10 May 2023
• Alexandria went on television to talk about the strike, and the floodgates opened up.
  — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 13 Mar. 2019
• That opens the floodgates for the bacteria to invade their body, Townes said.
  — Lynne Terry, OregonLive.com, 24 Jan. 2018
• Just one — No. 6 for the Niners overall — and the floodgates might open for Shanahan and the Niners.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2024
• Now, the floodgates have opened, and K-pop keeps getting bigger.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 25 Nov. 2019
• In the final five minutes, the floodgates opened with Ward, McGuirk, and Mullen adding tallies.
  — Nate Weitzer, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2023
• The floodgates are now open in France, but also beyond.
  — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 5 May 2024
• The Facebook data opened the floodgate to all their data.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2022
• Gil escaped the first inning after that, but the floodgates opened in the second.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 20 June 2024
• But the floodgates have opened, and cash is about to start pouring through the pipeage of America.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 14 May 2018
• The talk in the gym was of dam safety and floodgates opening along the Sabine and Neches Rivers, and whether that would mean more damage.
  — Rick Rojas and Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
• That fourth goal seemingly opened the floodgates for City.
  — SI.com, 14 Oct. 2017
• Golden State jumped out to a nine-point lead in the first four minutes, and everyone braced for the floodgates to open.
  — Andrew Sharp, SI.com, 4 June 2018
• But once the floodgates opened, people stood their ground and demanded that Bashir and his whole regime had to go.
  — Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2019
• While no third movie is set yet, the fact that Riley’s now in high school opens up the floodgates of possibilities, from romantic crushes and first loves to friends and frenemies, driver’s ed and so much more.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 15 June 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024