Sample Sentences for
ebb
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    After the incident, support for the policy ebbed.
    ebbed = declined
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    He blew his nose on a corner of the filthy pillowcase he wore, looking so pathetic that Harry felt his anger ebb away in spite of himself.  (source)
    ebb = decrease
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    My anticipation at having my own book ebbed to a sinking disappointment.  (source)
    ebbed = declined
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    By this time the tide was beginning to ebb, and the ship was swinging round to her anchor.  (source)
    ebb = gradually fall
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    I could already feel my strength ebbing.  (source)
    ebbing = decreasing
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    The thunder ebbed.  (source)
    ebbed = gradually declined
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    From the guard towers the lights scanned steadily, making shadows ebb and flow among the barracks like dark, square waves.  (source)
    ebb and flow = recurring pattern of decrease and increase
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    Communication between worlds was at one of its lowest ebbs.†  (source)
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    Saeed and Nadia knew what the buildup to conflict felt like, and so the feeling that hung over London in those days was not new to them, and they faced it not with bravery, exactly, and not with panic either, not mostly, but instead with a resignation shot through with moments of tension, with tension ebbing and flowing, and when the tension receded there was calm, the calm that is called the calm before the storm, but is in reality the foundation of a human life, waiting there for us between the steps of our march to our mortality, when we are compelled to pause and not act but be.†  (source)
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    It was after nine o'clock, but a river of yellow taxi cabs still ebbed and flowed down Broadway and Seventh Avenue, merging with a chorus of curses shouted in a dozen' languages, unheard behind the tightly closed windows.†  (source)
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    She sat looking about her with eyes as impersonal, almost as stony, as those with which the granite Rameses in a museum watches the froth and fret that ebbs and flows about his pedestal-separated from it by the lonely stretch of centuries.†  (source)
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    But from the time when impious Diomede, And false Ulysses, that inventive head, Her fatal image from the temple drew, The sleeping guardians of the castle slew, Her virgin statue with their bloody hands Polluted, and profan'd her holy bands; From thence the tide of fortune left their shore, And ebb'd much faster than it flow'd before: Their courage languish'd, as their hopes decay'd; And Pallas, now averse, refus'd her aid.†  (source)
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    It works a little bit, and the shivers running through me ebb away.†  (source)
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