low tide

NOUN

tide when water is lowest

Synonyms

WEAK

dead low tide dead low water ebb tide low ebb low water mean low water

Example Sentences

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It was low tide and almost a mile to the water’s edge.

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It was low tide, and a tidal river flowed past us on its way to the sea.

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Think of the boats on a tidal river; at low tide they are stuck in the mud.

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At low tide the shed sat on a sloping mud bank, listing twenty-five degrees from bow to stern.

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They wandered along the river until they came to the wide beach, bright under the moon, where the low tide was turning.

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