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

It was late when the great supper of boiled salmon was over, and the immense bonfires began to blaze on the shore where the falling tides of the Pacific left the beaches dry and pebbly.

From The Shagganappi by Johnson, E. Pauline