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
I loved ebb tide, when the pluff mud bubbled, and flood tide, when the waters lapped gently against the shore.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
