flood tide

Example Sentences

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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 • Dec. 3, 2022

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

Colour and scent and sound, rain and the lapping of water, even the mists of autumn and the smell of the flood tide, these are memories of Manderley that will not be denied.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier