flood tide
Example Sentences
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These enclaves, once the backbone of Ukraine’s agricultural eastern steppe, were reduced to ruin as the war passed over them like a flood tide.
From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2023
At Belleau Wood, they went up against a professional German army equipped with machine guns and heavy artillery, at the flood tide of a breakthrough near Paris that seemed about to end the war.
From Washington Post • May 31, 2018
On a flood tide, the current spit us grapeseed-like through the Narrows at 11 knots — about twice our normal motoring speed.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 6, 2017
At these locations of extreme tidal range, a person who ventures out onto the seafloor exposed during ebb tide may not be able to outrun the advancing water during flood tide.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
I loved ebb tide, when the pluff mud bubbled, and flood tide, when the waters lapped gently against the shore.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
