flood tide

Example Sentences

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These enclaves, once the backbone of Ukraine’s agricultural eastern steppe, were reduced to ruin as the war passed over them like a flood tide.

From New York Times

The next morning, a flood tide of parents and children washed over the kids’ area, with families backed up out the door.

From New York Times

These are resolutely prosaic works; where Whitman saw “River and sunset and scallop-edg’d waves of flood tide,” not to mention crowds of hopeful immigrants, Hopper sees infrastructure.

From New York Times

I loved ebb tide, when the pluff mud bubbled, and flood tide, when the waters lapped gently against the shore.

From Literature

But they are also beginning to consider plans for other ways to cope, including some forms of rationing care, if the flood tide of patients continues to rise.

From Scientific American