floodgate

Definitions

Examples

• The earth-shattering decision opens the floodgates for cases that will challenge a central tenet of the 115-year-old athletic association — that college athletes are amateurs and should not be paid.

• We’re at this moment where the floodgates opened and now everything is possible again.

• The campaign will “open the floodgates” of union action, Trumka said.

• If Google reneges on its threat to shut down search and pays to link to publishers, it will be opening up a floodgate that could result in a cascade of similar legislation around the world.

• “Once we got Walmart in, that’s when the floodgates started to open,” Beale said.

• If these happen to be small, let those who sit near them beware; the smaller the floodgate, the smarter will be the stream.

• The inventor of the damper register opened a floodgate to such aliquot re-enforcement as can be got in no other way.

• Meeting his gaze, she unbarred a floodgate of happy tenderness in her eyes.

• The dam and floodgate were just beyond the southwestern bastion and the old embankment of the dam can still be traced.

• The pond or reservoir above the floodgate is separated from the weir by a stone wall on the left, or south-west side.