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Be very passive as the air leaves your lungs and leaves your mouth, mimicking the sounds of ocean waves ebbing and flowing.

Zia, in bed with the Islamists who were being dispatched to the gallows by the tribunal, found her appeal ebbing.

Barack Obama, the first African-American president, was reelected, indicating that racial hostility toward minorities is ebbing.

Three, liberal support for affirmative action as we know it may be ebbing, as “diversity” has become a shorthand for race.

The argument could be heard in Israel on Sunday even as protests across the region appeared to be ebbing.

A chopping sea, caused by the ebbing tide, was breaking outside the cape which marked the entrance to Sandsgaard Bay.

Presently she sat down on a Bentwood rocking-chair and swayed to and fro, aware of an ebbing of confidence.

I feel my life ebbing fast away, but would not stay without my darling.

The vital tide was ebbing fast; and even the caresses of his master could not prolong his life for a few moments.

I felt weary and strangely heavy, as though my heart were ebbing away within me.