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Sentence count:147+12Posted:2016-12-15Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: declinedecreasediminishlessenrecederetreatsubsidewithdrawAntonym: floodflowSimilar words: ebbingMeaning: [eb]  n. 1. a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number) 2. the outward flow of the tide. v. 1. flow back or recede 2. hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb 3. fall away or decline. 
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(31) He had missed the ebb tide.
(32) She has seen her popularity ebb and flow.
(33) Delay it, and its vitality would ebb.
(34) Her spirits were at their lowest ebb.
(35) Last night was a light easterly - might have checked the ebb a fraction, but not enough to matter.
(36) Optimists had hoped the answer was that opposition would ebb of its own accord as evidence of growth began.
(37) It was ebb and flow, up and down, punch and counterpunch that didn't want to end.
(38) It is a pretty boring place, except tides ebb and flood there, as do the seasons.
(39) Rose stemmed the flow, encouraged the ebb, and he allowed it to be that way.
(40) This flow is unaffected by an ebb in economIc activity and thus acts as a stabilizing influence.
(41) To the public at large faith in the political process, already at a low ebb, will diminish further.
(42) It was ebb tide and the current was in their favour.
(43) She must have got clearance at Gravesend and sailed up on the ebb.
(44) We had a few concluding words about the literary scene in London, which he thought to have reached a pretty low ebb.
(45) Flounders were plentiful, with many undersize fish caught on the ebb tide.
(46) In the past eighteen months he has felt at an appallingly low ebb.
(47) At her lowest ebb, she would have scorned to stoop to such tactics.
(48) Both types of water and a brackish mixture can ebb and flow together.
(49) Each day the sun rose later and weaker and with it her strength too seemed to ebb.
(50) I was at my lowest ebb after the kidney surgery.
(51) The narrative line wavers,[http://sentencedict.com/ebb.html] its constant ebb and flow in political affairs and love story creating a sense of drift.
(52) How much attention do these programmes pay to the real dynamics of peer group pressures as they ebb and flow across adolescence?
(53) The tide had turned, and the ebb would help me downstream.
(54) Lancaster meanwhile was encamped near Bedford, and seeing his support ebb away he made another offer of submission.
(55) When you are chronically stressed because of work and demands, your hormones no longer ebb and flow normally.
(56) In the harbour you got a secondary ebb and flow between the main tides.
(57) Melville is content to let his story flow and ebb.
(58) The insurance business cycle is also at a low ebb.
(59) When I'd washed up, the ebb was going strong again.
(60) Nitzer Ebb especially think of life as one long siege, a purifying test of your inner strength.
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