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Meanings of floodgate in English
Portuguese
descarregador de cheia Catalan
comporta Regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice.
Usage of floodgate in English
1
The words came into her blank, resistant mind like a floodgate opening.
2
The addition of her air magick had opened some kind of floodgate.
3
Cornelia saw his emotion; the great floodgate of her heart seemed suddenly lifted.
4
Meeting his gaze, she unbarred a floodgate of happy tenderness in her eyes.
5
He raised the floodgate, and there at last was a way of escape.
6
They dug an outlet for the pond and rigged a floodgate for it.
7
That opened the floodgate of offers to work on other dancehall and reggae projects.
8
If he loses the ruling it could open a floodgate of charges against him.
9
His comment was treated like something of a floodgate-opening event.
10
I opened a floodgate, and the tide has drowned me.
11
Isabelle opened the floodgate to her fears, allowing all her terror to come pouring forth.
12
He could only mean along to Byron's Pool, to the floodgate that crosses the river.
13
A floodgate of memories from his youth burst open.
14
This opened a floodgate of accusation and crocodillian remorse.
15
The marks suddenly opened between us like a floodgate.
16
I rolled from the floodgate among the ducks, and cried, "Snake!"
About this term
Frequent collocations
Floodgate through the time