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

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

"The best time is during the flood tide, but there can be a brief bite on the ebb tide," Floor said.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2012

Or the ebb tide when a white-sided dolphin stranded on our shore, Osh gone somewhere, and I came back from Cuttyhunk to find her rocking and heaving, her cries babylike and afraid.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk