ebbing

Time was measured by a new moon, the first snow, a migrating bird, or the ebb and flow of a river.

A good answer these days would have something to do with DNA, but it would also have to incorporate ebb and flow, process and pattern, contingency and probability, a paradoxically permanent state of impermanence.

We’re probably going to have the ebbs and flows of dealing with this pandemic.

In fact, it’s the ebb and flow in Pennsylvania, more than any other factor, that drive the ups and downs in the President’s odds for reelection.

They strolled together along the beach; and as the tide was ebbing, the sands were firm and pleasant.

Great masses of seaweed had been brought in and left by the ebbing tide.

Your own energy is ebbing after the days enchantment and you feel that to stroll and sit and look is all the bliss you need.

Presently she sat down on a Bentwood rocking-chair and swayed to and fro, aware of an ebbing of confidence.

The tide was ebbing now, but almost every other wave swept the breakwater.

The conqueror had seen with astonishment the ebbing and flowing of the tides.