Sentence examples for receding tide from inspiring English sources

In the UK, the receding tide dropped all boats.

The others jumped into the receding tide to gather crabs with their hands.

They may also have quickened the receding tide from all the financial speculation of the late 1990s.

Is the second half of our life a matter of swimming harder and harder and harder against the receding tide?

Then, in the speech's most striking passage, he set Bill Clinton afloat on the receding tide of memory.

The victims are no more than flotsam, beached by the receding tide of one of Africa's cruelest rebellions.

A horse died on a Brittany beach after apparently inhaling noxious gases emitted by rotting algae that was left behind by receding tides.

At low tide, the receding waters reveal tide pools and ripples in the wet sand.

"The whales were about five metres long and in very shallow water and with the tide receding.

Though the world of print is receding before a tide of digital books, blogs and other Web sites, a generation of college students weaned on technology appears to be holding fast to traditional textbooks.

The fierce fighting — and the threat that it could undo a long-term truce that has greatly helped to reduce the level of violence in Iraq — thrust the war back into the headlines and the public consciousness just as it had been receding behind a tide of economic concerns.