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Sentence Examples The rest of the twenties were in many ways the high tide of the Federal Reserve System. The Treaty of Paris marked the high tide of late nineteenth-century colonialism in the United States. The high tide had gone down, but was still icy cold and high for the awakening morning. As high tide approached early Monday afternoon, surface winds pushed water against the sea wall and flooded a short stretch of Sunrise Drive. It's high tide, so the sea in its surfeit doesn't pound itself against the shore but sends its waves softly like gulls gliding. Sometimes on an exceptionally high tide the water flows over the weir causing a tidal effect as far up as Kingston. The first of the massive pipes were floated on the high tide on Thursday morning last and put into place. At high tide, the little bay looks deep and blue and can even develop some modest whitecaps. I've been to mud flats where there's a six-foot difference between high tide and low tide. Visibility is better at high tide, as the ebb tide brings down silt from the river. The fishing behind the boxes has slowed down considerably due to the havoc caused by the seals that come into the Ridge Pool with the high tide. The storm arrived slowly, brought in the high tide and the storm surge into this area. Larger fish feeding in the area at high tide or shorebirds feeding at low tide may be significant predators. At low tide the river level can be 15 feet or more lower than at high tide. At high tide it is fully submerged, but at low tide the tip of the ceiling is just dry and can be seen from a boat. Every 12 hours the water level oscillates between high tide and low tide, but the pattern of tidal waves is surprisingly complex. As explained earlier, this section is fully tidal and as such alters in depth from low tide to high tide by an average of about 17 ft. Genoas were doused and mainsails on both boats slatted idly in still air as they passed through the Gap on the quiet high tide. Look for seals and river otters that sometimes come in at high tide and hawks that cruise the surrounding fields for small game. Sea slaters can often be seen scuttling around the sand and rocks above the high tide mark at dusk. Show More Sentences In contrast, at high tide, the steep shingle beach produces plunging breakers against the berm causing the seaward movement of material. When a high tide occurs and the tidemark reaches beyond the normal beach line, this tends to create certain element of fear in the people. The high tide time predicted in your tide tables might not be the same as actually occurs in these rocky areas. The lagoon was a shelter from the weather as the ships could be beached high up on the land at high tide. At high tide a sluice was closed and the water then left to flow back at a controlled rate to operate the mill wheels. The barrier was closed by the authorities around noon on Monday after strong south-easterly winds and a high tide led to safety fears. The coastal intertidal zone is the area between the low and high tide zones that is not quite oceanic and not quite terrestrial. A storm surge at high tide destroyed the dukes and killed more than 1800 people. Always keep in mind the tide will continue to run after the listed high tide and out after the low tide. There was a little hill of sand that separated the lagoon from the ocean when it was low tide, and the two flowed together at high tide. To the west of the breakwater the beach height and width has continued to reduce to such a level that at high tide the sea reaches the sea wall. The country's coastline lies 1 to 1.5 meters below sea level at high tide, necessitating elaborate systems of drainage canals. An experiment at Northwestern University in Chicago used oysters that normally opened up their shells at high tide each day. At high tide there was a bigger landing boat, which had come after all the small ones. At high tide, many mudskipper species take cover in their submerged burrows to avoid being attacked by predatory fish that cruise the shallows. Approach channels to the port currently have a draft of 11.6m at all tides, and 12.1m at high tide. There's a phenomenal tide speed that goes past and at high tide it is 8ft above the level of the street for the majority of the Sutton area. Its incomparable architecture will forever stand as testimony to the high tide of Arab achievement. From this distance, though I hope I am wrong about this, his campaign seems quixotic, his footing insecure against the high tide of conservatism. First, Lone Star's defeat may well signal the high tide of Western vulture funds in Asia, and this is no bad thing. Show More Sentences In his first volume of The Age of Reagan, our friend Steve Hayward begins the story in 1964 at the high tide of liberalism. It follows from Galileo's theory that there should be just one high tide each day at a given location, and that it should occur around noon. Behind the cuspate sand bar is a low-tide lagoon, which is completely submerged during high tide. Severe flooding occurs when the peak of the rainy season coincides with high tide and the full moon. While submerged during high tide, an intertidal organism is likely to display a body temperature similar to that of the surrounding water. For one thing, the mud is imprinted with wavy bumps, or corrugations, the marks left by the water at high tide. A recently discovered intertidal, poisonous species of the sun spider burrows just above the high tide. Louis also enjoyed great financial wealth, for this was the high tide of the medieval economy. The high tide and its fish-filled waters lured the grey seal into Arnside bay where it feasted in the shallow water unruffled by the gathering crowds. One spot that responded with some nice fish was the lagoon at Lennox Head, where there were some nice tailor and at least one good king fish taken at high tide. It's finding a shell or bit of interesting flotsam washed up during the last high tide or a few oysters that can be opened and washed down with a glass of wine back home. The organ works off the swell of the seawater at high tide, which creates air pressure in the pipes leading to a sequence of musical chords based on the harmonic series. Sharp, rocky, and bumpy, there is a cave that is always half-filled with water, more so during high tide, and the current is always right that we do not stir when we sleep. The high tide of this influence would not come for nearly 1,500 years. Some more of Nasha and the night floated on the high tide of music. It was hoped that a high tide might help the captain refloat the vessel. Watching from the Breydon Bridge observation hide at high tide, I suddenly became aware of hundreds of dunlin taking wing and climbing high above the saltings. Because they oviposit at high tide, their eggs incubate out of water, buried in the sand of some of the most heavily used urban beaches in this populous area. Residents and visitors still are waiting the high tide of June 4th to eliminate all trace of that troublesome deposit and restore the beach to its pristine beauty. If you are in your late 50s, you are probably too young to remember the high tide of Kennedy-Johnson big government liberalism. Show More Sentences At high tide at sunrise and sunset the water runs into and fills the moon. At Kew, there can be as little as three feet of water during low tide, while a high tide results in Hammersmith Bridge becoming almost impassable. At this period of our life, he would say at the high tide of Victorianism, we need less harping on conscience and more appeals to critical intelligence. The surge was coming not at high tide as it had during the hurricane, but as the tide was falling. Trekking at the Carrowholly Centre was the main activity featured and the scenes of riders trekking through the water between high tide and low tide was breath-taking. And while George McGovern lost South Dakota against the 1972 Nixon high tide, as a matter of pride, at least he tried to win it. It seems like only yesterday I was succumbing to fashion's high tide and investing in low cut jeans, though I've never completed the look with a thong. Walk along the shoreline at high tide and the ocean will lap at your toes. It was the high tide of American engagement with the Asian country. At high tide, waves crashed over sea walls in coastal towns. Our campsite is a scalloped bay whose beach, shaded by she-oaks, is so narrow at high tide that I can roll straight out of my tent and into the lagoon. Water subsided in some areas as the tide went out but the diversion signs were back up again at high tide on Thursday morning and Thursday evening. Rescuers refloated 39 pilot whales at high tide, but dozens more died yesterday after a pod beached on a remote island off southern New Zealand. The north coast is unusual in having four high tides each day, with a double high tide every twelve and a half hours. London Bridge is now used as the basis for published tide tables giving the times of high tide. The Allies wanted to schedule the landings for shortly before dawn, midway between low and high tide, with the tide coming in. These small lagoons off of the main lagoon are filled with seawater at high tide and dry at low tide. Canal boats could enter the river at high tide to load goods directly onto seagoing vessels. Coastal flooding can occur at high tide at several points, notably the city side of Clontarf and Sandymount. During a flood in November 1743 the river bed eroded and sea water could flow into the lake at high tide. Show More Sentences Because the levees are some distance from the river, at high tide the Lower Rhine has more room for widening than the Upper Rhine. This meant that high tide formed a serious risk because strong tidal currents could tear huge areas of land into the sea. Having cotidal points means they reach high tide at the same time and low tide at the same time. Starting from the shoreline, the littoral zone begins at the spray region just above the high tide mark. It extends from the spring high tide line, which is rarely inundated, to the spring low tide line, which is rarely not inundated. Prior to nourishment, in many places the beach was too narrow to walk along, especially during high tide. The archipelago comprises 365 islands at low tide, compared to only 52 islands at high tide. The blockships were sunk in the wrong place and after a few days the canal was open to submarines at high tide. The Germans were then able to move submarines along the channel past the block ships at high tide. When large tidal flows enter the Strait and the high tide relaxes, internal waves are generated at the Camarinal Sill and proceed eastwards. Southampton Water has the benefit of a double high tide, with two high tide peaks, making the movement of large ships easier. The most recent occurrence involved the Celtic Endeavour being aground near Gunness for ten days, finally being lifted off by a high tide. Around 80 conservation workers and volunteers were trying to refloat the surviving whales as high tide rolled in. Workers piled sandbags along the streets and erected a sand berm to hold back the storm surge before the next high tide. The effects could be even greater if the storm hit at high tide. Our study organisms are a common intertidal prey item and its low tide and high tide predators. The combination of the hurricane making landfall near the time of high tide, and the large waves generated by the storm, resulted in major ocean overwash and beach erosion. A CAR carrier which became stranded on a sandbank near to a busy shipping lane has refloated on the high tide and is being towed to a holding position. He said the workers and volunteers worked throughout the day to keep the surviving whales watered and covered before refloating them during Saturday night's high tide. Parts of Fleetwood, especially to the north and west, are barely above sea level at high tide, and a large retaining sea wall runs along much of the western edge of the town. Show More Sentences Subsidence, the gradual lowering of the surface of Venice, has led to the seasonal Acqua alta when much of the city's surface is occasionally covered at high tide. A narrow granite gorge and rocky bottom heavily restricts waterflow and creates strong rapids that flow upriver at high tide, and downriver at low tide. Annual flooding occurs in late northern latitude winter at high tide when the incoming waters of the Atlantic are funnelled into the Amazon delta. When the high tide came in, the hulks rose and with them the wreck. The lake is topped up from the sea by opening a sluice at high tide. Offshore salvage may provide only a short window of opportunity for the salvage team due to unusually high tide or inclement weather for instance. The strip of seashore that is submerged at high tide and exposed at low tide, the intertidal zone, is an important ecological product of ocean tides. Because of the softness of the sediment, which lay below the high tide mark, tidal action eroded it, and within two weeks the footprints had been destroyed. This, together with the shrinkage on its initial drying and the removal of soil by the wind, has meant that much of the Fens lies below high tide level. The HWL represents the landward extent of the most recent high tide and is characterised by a change in sand colour due to repeated, periodic inundation by high tides. In contrast, the littoral zone covers the region between low and high tide and represents the transitional area between marine and terrestrial conditions. These dams can be overtopped at high tide and hold water at low tide. You can talk to him all day about how good high tide is in extended, or how good necropotence is in a monoblack deck, but he will still never play it. At high tide the gates were closed, and with the ebb of the tide were opened to release water, which scoured the silt from the entrance to the locks. Examples from Classical Literature But at high tide there was no limit to his aspirations, nor to his courage. At Zierikzee, in Zeeland, a whale has been stranded by a high tide and a gale of wind. Where is its current, where are the waves, when does the high tide rush in from the sea? We should enjoy it to the fullest, but we should remember that for every high tide there is a low ebb. It was still early morning, and everything was at its high tide of activity. Which British river is noted for its tidal bore, a wave that runs up-river at high tide? The Basin of minas could be easily reached at high tide by boat. We had built her upon a low bank of the river close to where it emptied into the sea, and just above high tide. It was high tide, and there was deep water on three sides of the cob. There is little enough in the high tide of the day, but there is next to none at night. Even at high tide the creeks never reach so far as the back there. Find more words! 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