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

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

The ponds are then closed off, allowing the shrimp to grow in protected lagoons, until they are harvested by draining the water during an ebb tide.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2018

There were fish to be had on the ebb tide, too, though nowhere near as many.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson