sudden flood

collocation in English

meaningsofsuddenandflood

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sudden
adjective
uk
/ˈsʌd.ən/us
/ˈsʌd.ən/
happening or done quickly and ...
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flood
noun
uk
/flʌd/us
/flʌd/
a large amount of water covering an area that is ...
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(Definition ofsuddenandfloodfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsudden flood

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I accept that it might result in asuddenfloodof dividends in that period.
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I have no reason to believe that in future there will be asuddenfloodof applications on odd bits of paper.
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There seems to have been asuddenfloodin the take-up of loans in the past six weeks or so.
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First, the immediate control of asuddenfloodof imports which might unbalance the market.
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Given the nature of the textile industry, in which asuddenfloodof imports can lead to massive disruption in a short time, that delay is seriously damaging.
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At some later date, the mummy may have been caught in asuddenfloodand carried downstream and rapidly buried in fine sand and clay.
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The desiccated carcass was eventually buried in asuddenflood, surrounded by sediment that had enough fine particles to make a cast of the epidermal structures.
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Meltwater flowed along a narrow basal glacier bed into a subglacial lake for five weeks, before being released as asuddenflood, or jkulhlaup.
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With heat waves, storms and sudden floods, the climate is changing.
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As a consequence of these droughts, we have also experienced huge fires or, in contrast, sudden and prolonged downpours that have caused equally sudden floods.
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The point was made there about the dislocation that is caused to a school when there are sudden floods in and out of children with special needs.
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The echidna can also dive underwater, which can help it to survive sudden floods.
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It can also destabilize glacial lakes leading to sudden floods, and destabilize snowpack causing avalanches.
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