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Ebb
"Ebb" in a Sentence (20 examples)
Relations between us seem to be on the ebb.
Sarah was at a low ebb for several weeks after her mother died.
The tide is on the ebb.
His popularity was at a low ebb.
She has been with me through the ebb and flow of my fortunes.
Every tide has its ebb.
The Sun’s magnetic field changes over a repeating 11-year cycle that causes an ebb and flow of solar activity such as sunspots, solar flares and coronal mass ejections.
The boats will go out on the ebb.
Thou shoreless flood which in thy ebb and flow / Claspest the limits of morality!
Men come from distant parts to admire the tides of Solway, which race in at flood and retreat at ebb with a greater speed than a horse can follow.
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Thus all the treasure of our flowing years, / Our ebb of life for ever takes away.
This reflection thawed my congealing blood, and again the tide of life and love flowed impetuously onward, again to ebb as my busy thoughts changed.
Industrialism hasn’t been an abiding set of activities in any particular place but rather a dynamic cycle, of takeoff, peak, and ebb.
Painting was then at its lowest ebb.
A "lowest ebb" implies something singular and finite, but for many of us, born in the Depression and raised by parents distrustful of fortune, an "ebb" might easily have lasted for years.
The 1987 book British Piers was written at a time when Britain's seaside resorts were perhaps at their lowest ebb, with a groundswell of support for rejuvenation and conservation just beginning.
All the sea lying betweene, is verie ebbe, full of shallowes and shelves
The tides ebbed at noon.
The dying man's strength ebbed away.
Parts of this town do not want a big influx of gay people and are trying to ebb it.
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