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Examples for "ebb "
Examples for "ebb "
1 Like Ms Sharma's colleagues, they were forced to let hope ebb away.
2 Throughout we follow the intricate ebb and flow of the Pinochet case.
3 Then it began to ebb ; meeting a counter-impulse arising in Eastern Europe.
4 But the past 18 months saw her sink to her lowest ebb .
5 The flood-tide sets to the north, and the ebb to the south.
1 Like Ms Sharma's colleagues, they were forced to let hope ebb away .
2 As I walk home, I feel my red heifer-inspired skepticism ebb away .
3 Doul was quieting, and I felt his willingness to talk ebb away .
4 Before he was aware of it, feeling began to ebb away .
5 But just as he seemed to ebb away a wild fear startled him.
1 And my whisper faded away as I ebbed down into the little death.
2 The gray wave in sprays of blood ebbed down the hill, and the battle ended.
3 You have nailed up a notice to the effect that life is ebbing down in you.
4 Her remorse ebbed down - her pride and anger rose.
5 And then the shattered grey wave broke into a spray of blood and slowly ebbed down the hill.
1 Wave after wave of relationship had ebbed off , and I was left a mere hulk upon the strand.
2 "I'll stay here till the next tide and walk out when the water's ebbed off . "
1 The tension was starting to ebb out of her face and neck.
2 But this tide will not ebb out for you to-night.
3 Jack saw the danger ebb out of the group.
4 She could feel the courage ebb out of her.
5 The color began to ebb out of his face.
6 Pressed against him, responsive to his touch, she felt the cold ebb out of the night, and a warmth come over her.
7 The light had finished ebbing out of the world; not a glimmer.
8 It is as if the light were ebbing out of the world.
9 Tension ebbed out of him like air out of an overinflated balloon.
10 It had ebbed out of her, leaving in its place a cold panic.
11 Paul felt himself blush, felt his wit ebbing out of him.
12 The great tide of her trouble had long ago ebbed out of her sight.
13 Carroll was getting dangerously cold, and he felt the power ebbing out of him.
14 Half of your life has ebbed out , and yet your life-work remains undone, untouched.
15 The color ebbed out of the florid face of Wally.
16 We waited long, watching the river sink lower and lower as the tide ebbed out .
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