flood wave in a sentence
Examples
- Warsaw was on alert, but a flood wave passed through in the Vistula without causing serious damage to the capital.
- Studies showed that a failure of this dam could lead to an high flood wave reaching the Hauptbahnhof within 2 hours.
- Heavy weekend rains forecast for downriver in southwestern Poland and the northern Czech Republic were expected to generate a second flood wave.
- Perhaps worst hit by the flood wave that hit early this week was the Semper Opera, adjacent to the huge Zwinger building.
- Meanwhile, the first flood wave continued to travel down the Oder toward Germany, where officials measured rising water levels with growing concern.
- Border Patrol helicopters were flying up and down the Rio Grande on Monday afternoon, warning residents about the flood wave, he said.
- Prerov was hit hard by a three-meter flood wave of the Becva River, which destroyed virtually all the town's first-and second-floor apartments.
- In Hungary, meanwhile, rescue workers were reinforcing the banks of the Danube River as a flood wave surged toward the capital, Budapest.
- "To get from Eagle Pass to Laredo in a little over a day is fast, but that's typical for a flood wave,"
- Heavy weekend rains forecast for upriver in southwestern Poland and the northern Czech Republic were expected to generate a second flood wave.