Example sentences for: ebb

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

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

  • 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."

  • Critics praise Tarloff's rendering of political power dynamics: "What makes the novel riveting is its almost anthropological description of the ebb and flow of power and status in official Washington" (Margaret Carlson, Time ). Overall, though, the dish is more appealing than the prose.

  • As part of the ebb and flow of Slate

  • 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.


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