ebb tide
Example Sentences
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For the first four hours, she was lucky: An ebb tide carried her about 10 miles.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2024
In coasts with large tidal differences, water collects in "rock pools" that warm up quickly on the ebb tide before the next flood washes in with colder seawater.
From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2024
They served separately at an ebb tide of postwar American power in the early 1970s, witnesses to defeat abroad and malaise at home.
From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2020
Some years, it feels like weirdness and experimentation in the Seattle theater/performance world is at an ebb tide.
From Seattle Times • May 31, 2019
However, the ship went out on the ebb tide; and was doubtless by morning far down the river mouth.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
