Sentence examples for ebb surge from inspiring English sources

If the ebb surge takes place at lower water depths, then the velocity increases, resulting in the characteristic ebb dominance of marsh creeks (Friedrichs and Aubrey 1988).

The flood surge occurs for a water elevation just above the elevation of the marsh platform, while the ebb surge takes place when the water elevation is just below the elevation of the marsh surface.

Similarly, the ebb surge takes place after the drainage of the marsh for a water elevation just below the marsh surface, and it is therefore confined in the channels (Figure 3).

Most Americans have lost faith in the war, and it will cost the White House little to tell the generals the time has come to ebb, not surge.

In a gulf that often sees winds of more than 70km an hour, not to mention hurricanes, BP had so little respect for the ocean's capacity to ebb and flow, surge and heave, that it did not think oil could make a paltry 77km trip.

Just as the global climate ebbs and surges, with droughts followed by deluges, so does the politically charged atmosphere that has long surrounded research pointing to potentially disruptive global warming.

Students had requested to speak with Ms Lam because they said they didn't trust the chief executive, Leung Chun-ying.During a tumultuous two weeks of protests, crowds had ebbed and surged in response to the use of force against protesters police fired 87 rounds of tear gas on protesters the first weekend and pro-government mobs attacked them the next.

The sun may seem to shine steadily, but its activity actually ebbs and surges (ScienceNOW, 25 April).

– ebb and surge through a once-in-a-lifetime cast (Gloria Grahame, Lillian Gish, Richard Widmark) in which the doctors are often nuttier than the patients; or Tea And Sympathy, a halting, mealy-mouthed and profoundly dated attempt to deal, however obliquely, with the taboo of homosexuality, here dubbed "unmanliness".

Deloitte Access Economics believes this investment surge will ebb in two years.

For the time being he is offering some help to protect the government; but the momentum of the surge will ebb.