flood tide
Example Sentences
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At Belleau Wood, they went up against a professional German army equipped with machine guns and heavy artillery, at the flood tide of a breakthrough near Paris that seemed about to end the war.
From Washington Post • May 31, 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
Shinohara Ushio, a Japanese artist, responded to the flood tide of American products with more humour than outrage.
From Economist • Mar. 23, 2016
He is also rowing against a flood tide in the labor movement, even though his local is affiliated with the A.F.L.-C.I.O.
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2013
The silvers were running in immense schools, they said, mostly on the flood tide.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
