falling tides
- plural of falling tide.
Example Sentences
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The fractures pointed to the possibility of an ocean on Europa, hidden under the ice, creating the fractures through the stress of rising and falling tides.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
Most of the dialogue is spoken, with sporadic singing and bursts of what might be termed shriekstemme; the music, despite its seeming randomness, hews uncannily to rising and falling tides of eventfulness.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2013
Sometimes they move en masse into dangerously shallow waters where falling tides can leave them helpless.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2012
Rising and falling tides contain huge power; hence a project is under way for dams and spillways where Maine and New Brunswick meet at Passamaquoddy Bay.
From Time Magazine Archive
Restless at times, with heavy strides He paces his parlour to and fro; He is like a ship that at anchor rides, And swings with the rising and falling tides, And tugs at her anchor-tow.
From Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys by Various
