Sentence examples for float on the tide from inspiring English sources

Its once-poisonous water is now merely too scary for swimming, but clean enough to support bluefish, an oyster farm (the oysters are an experiment not meant for human consumption), and at least one pair of white swans that float on the tide with their cygnets.

Is any thought to the contrary the sort of moral relativism that sends society toward a place where personal ethical standards float on the tide of convenience?

No one – not Angela Merkel, not Nicolas Sarkozy, certainly not Silvio Berlusconi, not yet at any rate David Cameron, seems to want to do more than float on the tide of events.

Infuriated by what he called, "time-serving politicians and unprincipled newspapers seeking only to float on the tide of public opinion," Clark resigned in 1879.

Brightness floats on the tide.

Between 1992 and 1995, I was a writer at the NME; from then until 2000, I worked first at the monthly Q, and then went on to edit the now-defunct Select, a title that floated on the tide of Britpop and sank when it receded.

Although the leak would certainly increase once off the reef, Cook decided to risk the attempt and at 10 20 pm the ship was floated on the tide and successfully drawn off.

Many ships float on a rising tide, to coin a saying.

We tossed the baited crab trap into the water, tying a thick string from the trap to a secure post on land so it wouldn't float away on the tide.

It anchors a dynamic structure with 11 brightly colored fiberglass seats forming the perimeter that floats on the tides and responds to the gentle rhythms of the river.

It was as if they were all floating on the tides of a global industry they had no real control over.