swim with the tide
Example Sentences
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He tries to swim with the tide, but he said wind and choppy water make progress harder.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 12, 2023
But throughout his career, Michaels has learned to swim with the tide.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2022
Other grocers, after a second look, decided to swim with the tide rather than fight it.
From Time Magazine Archive
The desert beasts moved delicately, on legs longer and more slender than those of pack-camels, their necks swaying like the necks of swans who swim with the tide.
From The Golden Silence by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
If we do not swim with the tide, we must stamp out this creed at once.”
From Jovinian A Story of the Early Days of Papal Rome by Kingston, William Henry Giles
