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

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

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

However, the ship went out on the ebb tide; and was doubtless by morning far down the river mouth.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker