Example sentences for: ebb

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Place, pensive, wails his fall whose presence was her pride;Time crieth out, My ebb is come; his life was my spring tide.Fame mourns in that she lost the ground of her reports;Each living wight laments his lack, and all in sundry sorts.

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

  • This was after the debacle in Somalia, remember, and at a time when his popularity was at low ebb.


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