How to Use floodplain in a Sentence

floodplain

noun

• Removal of the dam will lower the floodplain by as much as one foot in some upstream locations.
  — Don Behm, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2017
• Three of the four campuses are inside the 100-year floodplain.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Houston Chronicle, 14 Dec. 2017
• Hike the Boardwalk Loop Trail: An easy walk through the park’s floodplain forest.
  — Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
• While the government program insures more than five million homeowners, that is just a small fraction of the number of people who live on floodplains.
  — Mary Williams Walsh, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2017
• Since 1983, Washington has set the insurance rates, mapped the floodplains, written the rules and borne all of the risk.
  — The New York Times, NOLA.com, 5 Nov. 2017
• That 13-acre site, part of which is in a floodplain, has added to Beargrass Creek pollution, city officials concede.
  — James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 20 Dec. 2017
• About 3,300 homes are deep in floodplains and part of target areas identified by the flood control district as at the highest risk of flooding.
  — Mihir Zaveri, Houston Chronicle, 24 Oct. 2017
• The developer is optimistic about the plant’s future, but local experts are more skeptical because the facility would lie in a floodplain.
  — Yessenia Funes, Vox, 9 Aug. 2024
• The model takes into account reservoir conditions, the size of the breach, the downstream geography and topography, and the friction of the floodplain.
  — Nathaniel Levine, sacbee, 12 Feb. 2018
• Over the past century, the creek was forced into a narrow channel as road construction, agriculture and recreation eliminated the natural floodplain.
  — Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Jan. 2018
• The pit, about 40 acres, would be dug next to the White River and in the floodplain.
  — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Nov. 2020
• McCaskill said the area by the park is in a floodplain.
  — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2023
• For the past hour, the flood waters have raced across the floodplain southwest of the city.
  — Nathaniel Levine, sacbee, 12 Feb. 2018
• Bozo left the beach and plunged into the willows at the edge of the floodplain.
  — Jerome B. Robinson, Field & Stream, 17 Dec. 2020
• The Juniper Creek trail passes through the park and is 7.5 miles through the floodplains.
  — Amy Aumick, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 May 2018
• Beyond the floodplain was the jeeri, the dry, sandy border of the Ferlo desert.
  — J.r. Patterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Dec. 2023
• The state funding will allow the city to raise the bridge just over 3 feet, which would raise it out of the floodplain.
  — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2021
• In all, the eight-phase project is designed to reduce the number of homes in the floodplain by about 450.
  — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Jan. 2022
• Here, the Salisbury Plain meets the floodplain of the River Avon.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 4 May 2022
• The people fished in the water and farmed on the silty floodplain, growing crops such as corn and squash.
  — Ian Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
• The property is in the southern portion of the Yolo Bypass, a floodplain on the north side of the delta.
  — Ian Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2022
• Green said the program has removed more than 1,600 homes from the floodplain.
  — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 19 May 2018
• His new house is also on the White River, in a floodplain.
  — London Gibson, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Nov. 2020
• Mahoney lives about a mile south of Haverstick Woods in the floodplain of the White River.
  — Emily Hopkins, Indianapolis Star, 6 June 2018
• The Braeswood location of Three Brothers is in a 100-year floodplain, on the banks of the bayou.
  — Emma Balter, Chron, 25 Aug. 2022
• The money cannot be used to build things in the 100-year floodplain, however.
  — Joe Sonka, The Courier-Journal, 24 Aug. 2022
• The blazes have consumed about 28% of the vast floodplain that stretches across parts of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay.
  — Shasta Darlington, CNN, 1 Dec. 2020
• The area that flooded is a low-lying floodplain for the Po River.
  — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 27 May 2023
• Stumps and logs and ash are deposited on the sides of the floodplain at the very feet of the hikers watching it come right at them.
  — azcentral, 15 May 2018
• The property is in a floodplain that is in a larger area of the northeast side of the city known for flooding.
  — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024