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In the summer of 1993, record rains in the Midwest caused the Mississippi River to overflow its banks, break through levees, and inundate the entire countryside; such an inundation hadn't been seen for at least a hundred years. By contrast, the Nile River inundated its entire valley every year, bringing the rich black silt that made the valley one of the most fertile places on earth. (The inundations ceased with the completion of the Aswan High Dam in 1970.) Whenever a critical issue is being debated, the White House and Congressional offices are inundated with phone calls and emails, just as a town may be inundated with complaints when it starts charging a fee for garbage pickup.
Examples of inundate in a Sentence
Emma Marris, The Atlantic, 22 July 2025
Houston, New Orleans, Tampa, Charleston, and New York are among the cities that have been inundated in the past three decades.
—John Seabrook, New Yorker, 21 July 2025
District 4 residents were getting inundated with a sea of negative mailers, television and radio ads.
—Tess Riski
july 21, Miami Herald, 21 July 2025
Many reservoirs and lakes in Central and Eastern Texas are near capacity two weeks after floods inundated the region over the Fourth of July weekend, state data shows.
—Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 July 2025
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“Inundate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inundate. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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