falling tide

Example Sentences

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It urges people to only search on a falling tide, avoid the base of cliffs, wear appropriate clothing and to tell someone of their whereabouts and expected return time.

From BBC • Sep. 9, 2023

We had drifted onto the reef in a falling tide with no idea how much damage had been done ... by the fire or the coral.

From The Guardian • Dec. 28, 2016

Hard rain, stiff winds, and a falling tide had conspired and left us wet and chilled.

From Scientific American • Oct. 30, 2015

Yet this may be evidence that a falling tide can strand all boats.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2015

Before they turned, Lizzie felt her grandfather ebb as though his soul were passing out of him, the way the last waves of a falling tide pass into still air and are gone.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt