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Sentence Examples We passed the immense coastal inlet where at ebb tide dead rats and rusting machinery are visible. Caused by a tall underwater pinnacle, the effect is most evident when a strong westerly wind catches a flood or ebb tide. Yarmouth North Beach is an ebb tide mark, Caister produces fish on both flood and ebb tides, but any beach will give cod in the right conditions. Feeding activity is regulated by the ebb tide when fresh seaweed is most readily available. Visibility is better at high tide, as the ebb tide brings down silt from the river. The hardest thing about this lock is if you have a boat coming in on the ebb tide. He's a successful, distinguished photographer who has reached the ebb tide of disillusion in his life and career. Far from the island we waded through a waist deep channel of fast flowing ebb tide, then climbed onto a hard bank of rippled sand. The long ebb tide in markets may already be on the turn after a fall of more than 30 months' duration. The base of the cliff is heavily undercut, so you certainly do not want to be here on a stormy day or when a full spring ebb tide is running. Rather than trying to remove the salt from seawater, the plant would use brackish waters from the Thames ebb tide. If the ground you are casting onto has areas of broken rocky ground or shallow reef, then fish will feed through the ebb tide as well. There was an ebb tide in the approach channel after high water which pushed ships towards the shoal ground on the starboard side of the Vessel. He would watch for the telltale disturbance of phosphorescence in the water which meant the fish were rising on the ebb tide. With a fast dropping ebb tide she was unable to come astern off the bank and was left high and dry until five in the afternoon when she was assisted off the bank by tug. At the Blair ebb tide, when the Brown tide flows, a Murray comes and a Henman goes. A floating boom had been deployed to contain any leaks of fuel at ebb tide. Thus in an ebb tide, the pilot transfer was made at a speed through the water of about 9.9 knots. The current caused by the ebb tide was estimated to be of one to two knots in the region and running in a direction opposed to the wind. At about 2130, after nearly 30 minutes of continuous astern power application, and with the ebb tide about to begin, the vessel floated free. Show More Sentences At the time of the occurrence the combined effect of the ebb tide and the current was 3.3 knots. The strong ebb tide with an opposing wind and an inexperienced seaman at the helm contributed to the accident. The water of an ebb tide, combined with the hard structure of the shore, leaves pools of water standing at low tide. This was due to the residual ebb tide acting on the barge's port side, which countered the pulling force of the tug. For example, in some estuaries the ebb tide is often strongest within the central channel, whereas the flood tide is stronger along the shoreline. Cowtails individually enter the flats on the flood tide to rest for a minimum of 4 h, leaving on the ebb tide, singly as well, presumably to feed. For boats leaving the canal and heading upstream to York, that means waiting until the ebb tide turns to flood, and the current reverses to flow back upstream. This weekend the beach will be sporting kites that will carry their surfing occupants at speeds of 80 to 100 miles an hour along the shallows of the ebb tide. The school appeared to swim upstream with the rising tide each day and went back out to sea on the ebb tide where they could be seen about a mile off the land. However, the ship went out on the ebb tide, and was doubtless by morning far down the river mouth. The number includes islands, islets, and rocks of all sizes, including ones emerging at ebb tide only. The vessel capsized close to Edith Point in Johnstone Strait when the ebb tide was peaking and the wind was opposing the tide, possibly creating tide rips. The delay could be costly given that ebb tide was less than an hour away. Composed of ice of different thicknesses formed under pressure during ebb tide, the whole mass freezing together and gradually increasing in size with each successive tide. He was in the process of attacking the Chauci when his vessels were trapped by an ebb tide. It is also well known that, if the northerly wind should coincide with an ebb tide, very rough waters can be expected over the tidal mud flats where flounder fishing takes place. A tidal bore takes place during the flood tide and never during the ebb tide. On an ebb tide, the water flows to the southeast. The vessel was stemming a strong ebb tide. However, in the early hours of the following morning, 05 July, the wind began to increase in strength, blowing from the north against the ebb tide. Show More Sentences The hurricane force east-southeast winds acted to dam the water up in the harbour, preventing it from draining back into the Atlantic as it normally does with the ebb tide. In Roscoe Bay, jellyfish ride the current at ebb tide until they hit a gravel bar, and then descend below the current. Also, the ebb tide amplified the turbulence of the waves and the swell. The transit through Sechelt Rapids began prior to slack tide and, as a result, the barge came under the influence of the ebb tide, causing it to shear to starboard. Where an estuary has a high fresh water discharge or a narrow exit to the open coastal waters, a fresh or brackish water plume can extend well out to sea particularly during the ebb tide. Backed by three escort boats and smeared in porpoise oil, he set off into the ebb tide at a steady breaststroke. Examples from Classical Literature Wyndham was wanted at home, the ebb tide was running and a mailboat was due to call at Takana lagoon. Had the girl been alone, she told herself, she would have given her to the ebb tide. The wind fell, as I expected, and after dark we barely stemmed the ebb tide. I had pulled down as far as Greenwich with the ebb tide, and had turned with the tide. Towards what fate was the ebb tide of the streets drifting them? I think we can use the ebb tide of our energies best in that way. Its sand is yellow and fine, strewn with rose shells at the ebb tide. The ebb tide had run out, and the waters were beginning to rise again. The leaded windows were bright and speckless, and the door-stone was as clean as a white boulder at ebb tide. Dinsmore, watching beside him, knew that it was the ebb tide. Douglas, as I have said, had the disadvantage of riding an ebb tide. But since he wrote of heroes, he did not investigate the clothing of politicians at ebb tide. Don Coe of Northumbria Water fished the ebb tide from Hendon prom taking double shots of coley to 2lb and cod to 3lb on cocktails of worm and crab. So great was it that I thought it must be a mighty gulf until the mass of driftwood that came out upon the first ebb tide convinced me that it was the mouth of a river. Find more words! 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