tide over
Example Sentences
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"The saddest part is many of them will suffer the indignity and humiliation, lay low for some time, and wait for this to tide over because they have a life to live."
From BBC • May 2, 2025
The walkout roiled family schedules, as thousands of parents sought day care, missed work and lined up at city centers for grab-and-go food packs of six meals to tide over their school-age children through Thursday.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2023
India's neighbours - Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh - have all sought loans from the International Monetary Fund in recent months to tide over economic troubles brought about by the pandemic and the war.
From Reuters • Feb. 22, 2023
In our love story, the thickly buttered bread was a tide over to get us through a rough patch.
From Salon • Oct. 10, 2022
Horsemen, riding very swiftly, had indeed been sighted: still far behind but gaining on the Orcs, gaining on them like a tide over the flats on folk straying in a quicksand.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
