How to Use floodplain in a Sentence

floodplain

noun

• 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
• And there are thousands of them, part of a vast and swampy floodplain forest.
  — Ben Raines, NOLA.com, 25 June 2017
• 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 roadway and structure of Farnsworth will be raised 2.5 feet, which will remove it from the floodplain, as part of the plan.
  — Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 5 June 2017
• Hike the Boardwalk Loop Trail: An easy walk through the park’s floodplain forest.
  — Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
• 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
• On Roosevelt Island, a great glass X lifts above the floodplain.
  — Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Sep. 2017
• 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
• Three of the four campuses are inside the 100-year floodplain.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Houston Chronicle, 14 Dec. 2017
• Town Branch runs along the north side of the property planned for Steel Town Market, and much of the land lies within the floodplain.
  — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 29 Aug. 2023
• 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
• First construction crews had to tame the Elm Fork of the Trinity River and bring land out of the floodplain.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 24 Mar. 2023
• The 3-and-a-half-mile-long stretch of wall was being built right on the banks of the Rio Grande, in the floodplain, one of the few places where Texas desert plants could actually get water.
  — Outside Online, 16 Oct. 2024
• Indianapolis approved purchasing a floodplain for the first time this year, which can help absorb excess water that paved roads and parking lots cannot.
  — Linh Ta, Axios, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024