EBB in a Sentence
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24 example sentences for EBB, such as:
1. His confidence is at a low ebb.
2. Consumer confidence is currently at a low ebb.
3. He listened intently to the ebb and flow of these sounds.
4. She sat in silence enjoying the ebb and flow of conversation.
5. When the tide ebbs it's a rock pool inhabited by crustaceans.
2. Consumer confidence is currently at a low ebb.
3. He listened intently to the ebb and flow of these sounds.
4. She sat in silence enjoying the ebb and flow of conversation.
5. When the tide ebbs it's a rock pool inhabited by crustaceans.
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Meanings and Examples of EBB
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ebb
v. fall away or back; decline or recede; fall back from the flood stage
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1 As for yourself, death shall come to you from the sea, and your life shall ebb away very gently when you are full of years and peace of mind, and your people shall bless you.
2 His changes of mood did not offend me, because I saw that I had nothing to do with their alternation; the ebb and flow depended on causes quite disconnected with me.
3 One day I had come to my studies in lower spirits than usual; the ebb was occasioned by a poignantly felt disappointment.
4 I had pulled down as far as Greenwich with the ebb tide, and had turned with the tide.
5 It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour.
6 The music stopped as they entered and the crowd of people seemed to her confused mind to surge up to her like the roar of the sea and then ebb away, with lessening, ever-lessening sound.
7 The atheistic taunts of his cruel master sunk his before dejected soul to the lowest ebb; and, though the hand of faith still held to the eternal rock, it was a numb, despairing grasp.
8 However, the ship went out on the ebb tide; and was doubtless by morning far down the river mouth.
9 "We have lost the first of the ebb," said the Director, suddenly.
10 Whatever may be the combinations of the generals, the shock of armed masses has an incalculable ebb.
11 It was a flood tide complicated with a thousand ebb movements; the peculiarity of ebbs is to create intermixtures; hence the combination of very singular ideas; people adored both Napoleon and liberty.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
12 The crowd moved to and fro in the rooms like an ebb and flow of turquoises, rubies, emeralds, opals, and diamonds.
13 He listened intently to the ebb and flow of these sounds.
14 Goddess-born, follow we fate's ebb and flow, whatsoever it shall be; fortune must be borne to be overcome.
15 For some reason, the two women had drawn together, in one of the unaccountable flows and ebbs of sympathy that exist between people.
Example Sentence:
1 Consumer confidence is currently at a low ebb.
2 She sat in silence enjoying the ebb and flow of conversation.
3 His confidence is at a low ebb.
4 He had known her long enough to recognize the ebb and flow of her moods.
5 Sitting on the beach, Mrs. Dalloway watched the tide ebb: the waters receded, drawing away from her as she sat there all alone.
6 Relations between Morocco and Spain have been at low ebb now, first because of a breakdown in talks over Spanish fishing rights and, recently, over the illegal immigration issue.
7 When the tide ebbs it's a rock pool inhabited by crustaceans.