"wave receded" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It describes a situation where a wave moves away from the shore, often after reaching its highest point. Here are some examples of how it can be used in a sentence: - The tide was high, but as the wave receded, the beach became wider and more accessible. - The water level rose quickly as the wave approached, but it receded just as fast, leaving behind a calm, glistening surface. - With each wave that receded, the shells and seaweed on the shore were rearranged, creating a constantly changing landscape. - The storm had passed and the rough waves had receded, revealing a clear blue sky and a peaceful ocean.
There she clung to an awning until the wave receded.
Yet when the wave receded, some of the small towns in a region that traced its history to the seventh century had ceased to exist in visible form.
He'd been knocked over by a wave and, apparently disoriented by the rush of surf, had swallowed water and panicked, even as the wave receded, having practically deposited him on the beach.
As the New Wave receded, Chabrol maintained a prodigious output, creating such works as Violette Nozière (1978; Violette), Le Cheval d'orgueil (1979; The Horse of Pride), Blood Relatives (1981), Poulet au vinaigre (1985; "Chicken in Vinegar"), Une Affaire de femmes (1988; Story of Women), and an adaptation (1991) of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary.
Even if the wave recedes leaving nothing but a mess, it has undermined any assumptions of rule by divine right.
The Fall of Tokyo: As the tsunami wave recedes, TEPCO makes all the wrong decisions; the government keeps one too many secrets; there is a crucial failure of communication at just the wrong moment, and reactors 1, 2, and 3 at Fukushima Daiichi not only suffer a meltdown but burn and explode uncontrollably.
Matthiessen (1995a) explains that whatever appears in Theme will be developed in some way later in the clause, and Halliday (1979) proposes a wave-like pattern for textual meanings, in contrast to particulate patterns for ideational meanings and periodic patterns for interpersonal meanings, as in Fig. 1 where the Theme wave recedes as the Information wave ascends.
We are all treading water when suddenly, we ride a good 10 feet into the air, like an elevator in the water, then drop back down again as the wave recedes, all laughing hysterically.
It reminded me of something that tsunami survivors mentioned in the first days after the waves receded.
Juan Carlos Sombelo, a fisherman, said he never made it out of his house by the beach and was carried by a wave for about a kilometer, but survived by hanging onto rocks and other debris as the waves receded.
When the waves receded, Urwin looted destroyed shops for supplies and searched under piles of rubble for his children, coming across small bodies with mud-covered faces, swollen with seawater.
