Sentence examples for an ebbing tide from inspiring English sources

IF THE 1980s marked high water for Japanese capitalism, the sound ever since has been the slippery rush of an ebbing tide.

Hunter S. Thompson, the era's burnt-out balladeer, famously described the early seventies in terms of an ebbing tide: "that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back".

And of course, speaking of the East River, you must know something of tidal excursion, which is the maximum distance a particle (or body) can travel in a strait during a flooding or an ebbing tide.

Symbolic of the futility of the Union attack, DuPont's flagship New Ironsides suffered the indignity of running into two of its own ironclads, and due to the immense size of the ship in the relatively narrow channel — and now buffeted by an ebbing tide — DuPont had to actually anchor in the channel to avoid being driven ashore.

Coast Guard crews took all the 406 people on board off the overcrowded 60-foot wooden vessel safely, racing against an ebbing tide that threatened to capsize the grounded freighter and toss those on board into the water or trap them below deck.

Of a "dead" soldier, she wrote, "though the heavy breaths still tore their way up for a little longer, they were but the waves of an ebbing tide that beat unfelt against the wreck, which an immortal voyager had deserted with a smile".

And as spectacular as Sunday's second race proved to be in strong winds and an ebb tide, this was still not quite the vision that Ellison and Coutts had of the America's Cup in San Francisco Bay.

If a ship pulls into the river during a flood tide when the tide is coming in, or an ebb tide when it is going out, the ship is perpendicular to the current and is slammed from bow to stern.

Both roosts are caused by the meeting of swells from the open ocean with opposing tidal currents, so the Bore of Duncansby, at the east end of the Firth, is to be feared when there is an easterly swell and a flood tide, and the Merry Men of Mey, at the west end, stage their revelries with a westerly swell and an ebb tide.

Boats are warned to avoid the eddies of Pentland Firth known as the Swilkie, even in calm weather; if an ebb tide is combined with a northwest wind, the heavy breaking seas of the Swilkie are a menace that, according to the British Islands Pilot, "few, having once experienced, would be rash enough to encounter a second time".

With a powerful ebbing tide in place to potentially set the boats over the starting line early, Larson played it safe.