ebb and flow
Example Sentences
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“There is a lot of ebb and flow in the garden,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times
Wars ebb and flow, and right now Ukraine's facing a harsh tide.
From BBC
Worse than that, if left in that time period for too long, they would inevitably become Butterflies themselves, meddling with the ebb and flow of time by their very presence.
From Literature
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Ms. DuBois cannot be faulted for recounting the ebb and flow of 19th-century reform campaigns, and she does it well.
There are signs this is more than the normal ebb and flow of executive reshuffling.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.