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ebbed
verb as in subside; decline
Example Sentences
Cherise’s vocals add color to the pressures that life brings, while her lyrics offer advice on how to “let loose” to escape the ebb and flow that comes with being anxious about our current times.
While legalized gambling has seen ebbs and flows over the course of American history, no state has enacted a major gambling prohibition in more than a century.
This notion of American opportunity has ebbed and flowed, but generally gained ground well into the 1960s and 1970s.
The fate of many anti-poverty programs has ebbed and flowed ever since.
As unemployment ebbed, the ranks of long-term jobless calcified, creating two separate job markets.
The more I brooded about these and other Level D options, the more my confidence ebbed.
The crowds who showed up long after the excitement had ebbed were not driven there by ideology.
Thenceforth, it ebbed, though it raged madly for a while in the effort to sweep away the obstruction.
The flood-tide in the entrance generally ran sixteen hours, and ebbed eight hours.
She trembled, and the blood slowly ebbed from her face, leaving it pale and luminous with a sort of wonder.
The Rev. Mr. Clarke was now come, an old and valued friend; he knelt and prayed as the life ebbed away.
At that moment the last of the daylight ebbed, and darkness began to quench the sunset embers.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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