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Recent Examples of floodplain
Our clear, 30-foot-wide river had risen to a raging torrent that filled the floodplain from side to side.
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Ben East,
Outdoor Life,
14 May 2026
The proposal includes building on a floodplain near an old, unlined dump that could leach toxic chemicals.
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Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
28 Apr. 2026
Preventative measures In order to better mitigate future flooding, the Leawood City Council voted to approve an Indian Creek Watershed Master Plan last December, which would help the city identify potential solutions for areas along 103rd Street to College Avenue that are in the floodplain.
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Taylor O'Connor,
Kansas City Star,
27 Apr. 2026
The Newaygo County Emergency Services ordered an evacuation Thursday morning for residents in the floodplain below Croton Dam along the Muskegon River in that West Michigan community.
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Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for floodplain
Ben East,
Outdoor Life,
14 May 2026
The proposal includes building on a floodplain near an old, unlined dump that could leach toxic chemicals.
—
Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
28 Apr. 2026
Preventative measures In order to better mitigate future flooding, the Leawood City Council voted to approve an Indian Creek Watershed Master Plan last December, which would help the city identify potential solutions for areas along 103rd Street to College Avenue that are in the floodplain.
—
Taylor O'Connor,
Kansas City Star,
27 Apr. 2026
The Newaygo County Emergency Services ordered an evacuation Thursday morning for residents in the floodplain below Croton Dam along the Muskegon River in that West Michigan community.
—
Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for floodplain
Recent Examples of Synonyms for floodplain
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Tiered terraces travel down the sloping backyard past granite outcroppings and towering pines before opening to panoramic views across the entire Lake Tahoe basin.
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Schrodinger basin, a large impact crater near the moon’s south pole, shows evidence of geologically recent volcanic activity.
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The sun shined on the battlefield area, a wide-open grassland with few trees, mountains in the distance.
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The medium-sized bats primarily live in arid grasslands, desert scrublands, and dry tropical forests.
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At Garland Ranch, trails climb from the Carmel River through oak woodland, chaparral and shaded canyons with the sort of views that drew people to California in the first place.
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The Colorado River Headwaters Byway is an 80-mile National Scenic Byway that winds through mountain towns, passing alpine lakes, hot springs, and canyon overlooks.
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There are flag sweaters and skate sneakers and prairie skirts; there are Cheyanne moccasins and Mennonite bonnets and the not-quite-holy Yankees baseball cap.
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Royce Ben Jameson was arrested on suspicion of the offense of firing woods or prairie and third-degree criminal trespass.
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That progress hit a large pothole in the fifth inning at Rate Field as the White Sox scored seven times, chasing Sasaki from the game and going on to beat the Dodgers, 8-2.
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Experts logged the location of every bump in the road and every pothole.
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Across the Amazon rainforest, cerrado savanna, Atlantic Forest, Pantanal wetland, Caatinga scrub and Pampa grassland, the country’s plant life seems less like one national inheritance than several botanical worlds sharing a border.
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Set on a tiny, exceedingly private spit of land deep inside a national park, the property spans wetlands, savanna, and Rwanda’s quintessential hillscapes.
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Head right, and there came public land, the Shasta-Trinity National Forest with its creeks and gulches and two-bit towns like Peanut and Beegum.
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The road to the potato patches — where the community grows most of its vegetables — crosses several large gulches that frequently spill tons of rock and soil onto the track, requiring regular maintenance.
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Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park conserves nearly 13,000 acres of rare hardwood bottomland along the Mississippi River, including eerie bald cypress swamp.
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Go for a Hike at Woodlands Conservancy Hike through one of the region’s last remaining stands of bottomland hardwood forest at the Woodlands Preserve.
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“Floodplain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/floodplain. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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