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Example sentences for: ebb

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In Barthelme's case, this kind of packaging seems oddly timed, since his influence on current fiction is if anything at a low ebb.
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.
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.
For instance, one question it doesn't raise, but seems worth asking: If the Pentagon can, over a number of years, make the plans necessary to design and build an aircraft carrier, how come it can't, over that same length of time, plan for the personnel demands caused by the likely ebb and flow of the outside economy?
As early as M*A*S*H (1970), the director seemed more taken with the ebb and flow of groups than with the isolated treks of individuals.