Example sentences for: ebb

How can you use “ebb” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Captain Bligh," which rhymes in his mind with the ebb and flow of Caribbean tyranny and freedom: "The ribbed body with its cargo/ stalls in its doldrums, the God-captain is cast adrift/ by a mutinous Christian."

  • The book is so musical in its ebb and flow that it might lend itself best to a chamber opera, consisting entirely of interwoven solos--monodramas seen and heard by the audience, no one else.

  • In Barthelme's case, this kind of packaging seems oddly timed, since his influence on current fiction is if anything at a low ebb.

  • So it's not surprising that, at this moment of low ebb, Republicans are again evoking the Gipper.

  • America's reputation is at an ebb in U.N.


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