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
• The 2016 state law could open up the floodgates on old claims, defense attorney Troy Booher said.
  — Washington Post, 14 May 2018

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2024