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flash floods

n. (flash flood English)

Usage examples of "flash floods".

Some were skeletons from the steppes, others were the remains of animals caught in flash floods, carried downstream, and thrown against the wall.

No matter how wild the torrents that raged down from the mountains, nor how compulsive the flash floods that cascaded across the plain after some torrential downpour, the monolith persisted.

They talked about hanging it in a tree, but most of the trees were inaccessible, their lower branches stripped away in flash floods.

In fact, millions of flash floods helped make the topography of Death Valley what it is today.

York was entranced by images of Moonlike craters, eroded by flash floods.

The roadway was gullied in spots where flash floods had struck or culverts blocked, and some of the bridges were down, but it was still passable for wheeled traffic if you weren't in a tearing hurry.

First came a trickle, then a flood, then a cascade, and finally, a veritable tsunami of water, crashing down the gorge in a flash flood to end all flash floods.

Fortunately, they'd been able to slow the initial rush of the barbarians by selectively flooding their fields and occasionally artificially inducing flash floods to catch groups of raiders.

But, on the other hand, flash floods in these narrow gorges can wipe out a party such as ours in a matter of seconds.

Several miles wide, jumbled at the center with debris from thousands of flash floods, the canyon mouth was more like the lip of an outwash plain than a true canyon.