How to Use high tide in a Sentence
high tide
noun- At high tide the water covers the rocks completely.
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Or the ghost ship was kind of brought in by a high tide.
—Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2022
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In high tide, the reef is swallowed by the sea once again.
—Janice Wald Henderson, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2024
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And the surges are added feet of water on top of high tide.
—Brian Resnick, Vox, 14 Sep. 2018
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There’s a high tide of tourists there, and then there’s a low tide of tourists there.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 10 July 2019
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The Siege of Vienna in 1529 was the high tide of the Ottomans.
—Razib Khan, National Review, 31 July 2021
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And the height of the storm did not coincide with high tide.
—BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2021
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The eggs develop over 10 days and hatch with the next high tide.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
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That would add water to the high tide that’s in the forecast, Haines said.
—Jeff Martin, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
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The plan was to wait until high tide to tow the whale out to deep water and sink the body.
—Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Dec. 2023
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The new route allowed access to the pools even at high tide.
—Ha Duong, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2020
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Eight of the gulls were dead when they were found on the high tide line mixed with seaweed.
—Daily Pilot, 15 Oct. 2019
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The beach itself can be small at high tide, but opens up with the tide is out.
—oregonlive, 5 June 2021
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How storm surge and high tide add up to coastal flooding.
—Anthony C. Didlake Jr., Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024
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All boats should be raised by a high tide of customers.
—Tony Holt, Arkansas Online, 11 June 2023
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On the other side of the Earth, a high tide is produced where the Moon’s pull is weakest.
—Patrick May, The Mercury News, 3 June 2019
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And this storm could arrive during high tide, which might add a bit to the surge.
—Matt Simon, Wired, 26 Aug. 2020
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But spring tides are just one way the high tide varies over time, NASA explains.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2021
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The best time to snorkel is during the hour before and after high tide.
—Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 22 July 2024
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The show will move from dawn in the Kalahari to the hour after the rains in the Amazon to high tide in the Australian coral reef.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2024
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Workers also learned, the hard way, that high tide was not a good time to spray.
—Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2021
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The tags that track the whales’ movement show the Sounders synch their feeding precisely to the high tide.
—Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2021
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There is no concern for flooding with the late evening high tide, Lessor said.
—Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 17 Jan. 2022
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The next high tides near where the storm came ashore are on Wednesday afternoon.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
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Also, at high tide, there’s little to no sand to walk on.
—Brittany Levine Beckman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
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How high the water gets depends in part on whether the surge peaks during high tide.
—Jon Kamp, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2022
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In January, large waves and high tides destroyed parts of the town’s wharf.
—Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2023
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The resurgent seagrass has sharp edges, and at high tide swathes of it are submerged.
—Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2024
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In front of the hotel, Playa Santana’s left-breaking point or its many beach breaks are fun at middle to high tide.
—Noah Lederman, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2024
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During high tide, waves spray skyward through limestone rock crevices, creating natural water spouts and giving the preserve its name.
—Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 12 Jan. 2025
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