low tide

Example Sentences

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After we had unloaded our belongings at the hostel, the first order of business, it being low tide, was to head down to Whaler’s Cove to inspect life in the intertidal zone.

From New York Times

This means that people can move down the beach along the wet sand between high and low tide — a zone that usually is publicly owned.

From Washington Post

The two paleontologists were climbing over dumpster-sized sandstone boulders, scanning the long, rocky beach of Aniakchak National Monument & Preserve at low tide for dinosaur footprints.

From Washington Post

Vast beds of shellfish were baked alive in British Columbia earlier this month, the consequence a fatal mix of extreme heat and low tides.

From Washington Post

One half of this cycle subdues tides, making the high tides lower and the low tides higher.

From Seattle Times