Sentence examples for ebb down from inspiring English sources

Incentive fees, however, have finally begun to ebb, down to 19 percent from 19.3 percent three years ago, according to Hedge Fund Research.

Partly this was because the country it passed through was some of the most beautiful I had ever seen: great sweeps of rolling moorland and pasture dropping from the crags of Sutton Bank and then slowly diminishing over hills and dales, as it ebbed down to the chequerboard of valley-bottom strip-fields, and hence to the banks of Rievaulx's former millrace, the Rye.

"The artistic process involves ups and downs, ebbs and flows, and that's what's happening here," Ms. Meadow said.

"I think we all understand matters of the heart and the ups, downs, ebbs and flows of relationships," Jefferson County Chief Deputy Randy Christian told AL.com.

"As I spin, my heart rate slows and my blood pressure drops; the ups and downs of the day ebb away".

It is a clip of abate, from the Old French abattre, "to beat down," and now it means "to moderate, subside, reduce, ebb".

After a few hours of activity in the morning, the tempo in Sanaa ebbs, as Yemenis sit down with their daily bag of khat — a narcotic evergreen shrub whose softest leaves are stuffed into the cheeks.

Wariness may begin to ebb.

The waves ebb.

They ebb and flow.

This tide will not ebb.