How to Use low tide in a Sentence
low tide
noun- You can walk across the sand bar at low tide.
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Most of the work would be done at low tide to reach more of the rocks and the beach.
— Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 July 2022 -
Bear tracks the size of pie plates in the low tide mud all around me.
— The Guardian, Scientific American, 11 Nov. 2021 -
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 -
For the best chance of spotting stones, go at low tide.
— Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 23 May 2024 -
The clams can appear at any point on the beach but the best time is at low tide.
— Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2023 -
When the Earth rotates, the bulges move around in the oceans, causing the high tides and low tides in oceans all over the world.
— Kristen Rogers, CNN, 22 Nov. 2019 -
At low tide, the ocean withdraws and leaves the sand lacquered as far as the eye can see.
— Jordan Kisner, Travel + Leisure, 26 May 2021 -
Hit the beach and hunt for clams, sea glass, and agate pieces at low tide, and splash around at high tide.
— Kristi Valentini, Redbook, 13 July 2017 -
In places like Cowichan Bay, booms sink onto the seafloor at low tide.
— Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 27 June 2024 -
The walking sharks: During the low tide, these sharks are the big predators on the reef.
— National Geographic, 30 Jan. 2020 -
One of the most fun things to on the Oregon coast is explore pools left on the shore at low tide.
— oregonlive, 3 June 2021 -
Nets were drifted from an open boat or set on the beach at low tide.
— John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2022 -
So a storm surge at low tide might not have much of an effect.
— Judson Jones, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023 -
At low tide the remains dot the beach like stick-figure Rorschach tests.
— John Bordsen, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2017 -
The crusts, on a specific part of the shore, are exposed at low tide.
— Washington Post, 26 June 2019 -
Expect the lowest tides of the year today and through the weekend.
— Bink Grimes, Houston Chronicle, 11 Jan. 2018 -
Those lower low tides are when clammers flock to the beach.
— David Berger, The Seattle Times, 25 Aug. 2017 -
Just as a high tide lifts all boats, a low tide can do the opposite.
— Andrew Deangelo, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023 -
Some work needs to be done during low tide when the ocean is further away from the base of the staircase.
— Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2023 -
At low tide, the pools on Olympic beaches are rife with starfish, sand dollars, and crabs.
— Sarah Rose, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2023 -
Carroll and her husband can still come and go at low tide.
— Andy Rosen, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2018 -
The person who took the video said it was taken about one and a half miles inland, and at low tide.
— Kerry Breen, CBS News, 30 Aug. 2023 -
Fish scales glittered in puddles at our feet and the air tasted of oil and low tide.
— Neil Shea, National Geographic, 12 June 2019 -
But by the time of the next extreme low tide, in April, the corals had returned to their usual color.
— Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books, 4 Nov. 2021 -
Many of the photos in this post were taken closer to high tide than low tide.
— Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2018 -
Galveston - Sloughs and bayous in East Bay have held fish on low tides.
— Bink Grimes, Houston Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2018 -
Razor clams are in the surf lines, closest to low tide levels.
— Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2022 -
The ideal time to search is during low tide when there is enough shoreline to scour.
— Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2020 -
Coral reefs, exposed here at low tide, are the foundation of the Maldives.
— Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 26 June 2024
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