floodgate

How To Use floodgate In A Sentence

• Liberal proponents of American Values praise the freedom that opens the floodgates to gay marriage and pornography; conservatives, the liberty unleashing that locust plague called unrestrained capitalism; neo-conservatives the license for lying, murderous Machtpolitik. Founding Fathers vs. Church Fathers
• Then, finally throwing the switch he opened the floodgate to the sluice, and let the water roll out into the place that was once the White River.
• So now we come to the fateful month of July 1944, when the waters were rising along the whole periphery of the Nazi empire, where everywhere, in Speidel's words, "... the floodgates are creaking," to the day, the 20th, of the attentat; a climacteric in the history of the Third Reich of Hitler's relations with the Army, and of the rational direction of the German war effort. Barbarossa
• The moment his feet stepped across the threshold the memories came flooding back like a floodgate had been opened, ironically causing simultaneous feelings of joy and sadness to nearly overwhelm him.
• For one, if the water in the city does rise to the height of levees along the lakefront, it may be difficult to open floodgates designed to keep the lake out that would now be needed to allow the lake to leave.
• Will the floodgates open now that Arsenal have broken the deadlock?
• The 12-year-old test case may open the floodgates for a spate of litigation against local authorities.
• In Manggarai, South Jakarta, flood victims tried to take matters into their own hands and open a floodgate to allow the water to drain from their homes.
• If a few cities like Toowoomba can be assisted in leading the way, it should open the floodgates for other cities and towns to take the same step.
• If this case is successful it could open the floodgates for thousands of similar claims.