How to Use high tide in a Sentence

high tide

noun
  • At high tide the water covers the rocks completely.
  • If a storm arrives during a lunar high tide, the water level will be even higher.
    Javier Zarracina, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The heavy rains and storm surge flooded coastal areas, as neighborhoods saw waters rise during high tide.
    Janice Dean, Fox News, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Volunteers first managed to refloat the whales on Monday evening's high tide.
    Nick Perry, Star Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
  • At the noontime high tide there were more than a million people in San Francisco.
    Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 16 Jan. 2021
  • There could be additional minor flooding Tuesday at the time of high tide.
    Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2021
  • La Jolla will experience a 6-foot 9-inch high tide at 8 a.m.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2020
  • As waves rolled onto the beach at high tide on Saturday, more sections of the ship became visible.
    Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The Pac-12 schedule might as well be written in Malibu sand, inches from the surf rolling in at high tide.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2020
  • In addition to the storms blowing in, tides will be near their highest all month, coming down from a peak high tide Monday morning.
    oregonlive, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Storm surges shove seawater onto land far above what's normally seen at high tide, inundating streets and buildings.
    Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Here at Gleason Beach, once referred to as Malibu North, the beach gets drowned during high tide.
    Rosanna Xia Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2020
  • The government, though, still warned people to stay at home given torrential rain, strong winds and storm surges coinciding with high tide.
    Reuters, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The waves are crashing as high tide approaches, and village women, returning from work at the hotels, pass swiftly like barefoot phantoms.
    Andrea Lee, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
  • The slough is a coastal estuary near Buccaneer Beach that’s stagnant most of the year and sometimes floods at high tide or during winter storms.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2020
  • The holiday season is typically high tide for giving back through volunteering.
    Christen A. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 27 Nov. 2020
  • The destructive Category 2 storm, which made landfall at high tide, killed at least 700 people.
    Gina Martinez, CBS News, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Milton’s storm surge is forecasted to raise water levels by eight to 12 feet in Tampa Bay, if peak surge happens during the high tide.
    Solcyré Burga, TIME, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Predictions call for 5 to 10 feet of water above normally dry ground along the central Louisiana coast, if the peak surge hits a high tide.
    Andrew Freedman, Axios, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Even so, the bay itself flows south through Crissy Field’s marsh — itself a semi-natural restoration — and at high tide makes the reach resemble an inland pond.
    John King, SFChronicle.com, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Or the ghost ship was kind of brought in by a high tide.
    Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2022
  • In high tide, the reef is swallowed by the sea once again.
    Janice Wald Henderson, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The Siege of Vienna in 1529 was the high tide of the Ottomans.
    Razib Khan, National Review, 31 July 2021
  • And the height of the storm did not coincide with high tide.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2021
  • The eggs develop over 10 days and hatch with the next high tide.
    Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
  • That would add water to the high tide that’s in the forecast, Haines said.
    Jeff Martin, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • The beach itself can be small at high tide, but opens up with the tide is out.
    oregonlive, 5 June 2021
  • All boats should be raised by a high tide of customers.
    Tony Holt, Arkansas Online, 11 June 2023
  • 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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