Used in a Sentence

floods

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for floods.

Editorial note

The prices may not be falling at the same rate as they were before the floods, though.

Examples16
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

"Floods" is a song by American heavy metal band Pantera from their 1996 album The Great Southern Trendkill.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of floods gathered in one view.

N

"Floods" is a song by American heavy metal band Pantera from their 1996 album The Great Southern Trendkill.

N

"Floods" is the fourth single from Fightstar's second studio album, One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for floods.

N

"Floods" is a song by American heavy metal band Pantera from their 1996 album The Great Southern Trendkill.

N

"Floods" is the fourth single from Fightstar's second studio album, One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours.

Example sentences

1

The prices may not be falling at the same rate as they were before the floods, though.

2

Short of fires and floods, it’s gonna be there in 600 years and look just fine.

3

A surprising amount of industry consolidation happened after the Thailand floods a few years ago.

4

Software isn't rainbows and butterflies, but it shouldn't be endless floods and caterpillars, either.

5

Everything now is layer 7 floods at high rates or low-and-slow to avoid detection.

6

We run midrange devices that have thwarted 40M PPS SYN floods without a problem.

7

The sun floods the sky with it of course, but there's plenty of choice.

8

What happened during the floods was that WD[0] got lucky - data consumption remained high as ever, and SSDs simply weren't cheap enough at that point to fill the void that the floods left behind.

9

Also, we saw these big SYN floods about 3 years ago (before Radware coined the term).

10

I'm not bragging or anything, just offering a datapoint that SYN floods are easy to stop.

11

Flash floods and the water ends up in the sea.

12

Because: (1) There's no existing infrastructure that allows this, and by the time it was built, both the drought and the floods would be long over.

Quote examples

1

Here's one reviewer: "In the context of string theory, he literally floods the pages of his book with undefendable speculations about some basic results of string theory.

2

I'm sure this is partly the result of #1 -- with the floods of submissions users might not realize that a story was submitted before -- but the fact that there's no "penalty" for useless submissions probably contributes as well.

3

"The world as you have never seen before" contains striking world maps with their areas proportional to measures like population (even the population in AD 1), income, aircraft flights, toy exports, nuclear weapons, languages, people killed by floods and 600 more.

Proper noun examples

1

Floods should fall in that local category.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use floods in a sentence?

The prices may not be falling at the same rate as they were before the floods, though.

What does floods mean?

"Floods" is a song by American heavy metal band Pantera from their 1996 album The Great Southern Trendkill.

What part of speech is floods?

floods is commonly used as N.