How to Use spring tide in a Sentence

spring tide

noun

• A full week after spring tides, the sun and moon find themselves at right angles.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2019
• The spring tides come in over the seagrass and, when the water retreats, leave salt to crystallize.
  — Nick Paumgarten, Bon Appetit, 31 Mar. 2017
• The scientific name for king tides is perigean spring tide.
  — Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Nov. 2020
• The barge holds four weeks’ worth of seawater; every two weeks—during spring tides, which occur at the new and full moons—the Osbornes top up.
  — Nick Paumgarten, Bon Appetit, 31 Mar. 2017
• The three bodies soon fall out of alignment with each other, and seven days after a spring tide the Moon and the Sun are at 90 degree angles from each other.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Sep. 2019
• Some of the city’s biggest flood events have happened at noon and midnight, when bimonthly spring tides happen to occur.
  — Courtney Humphries, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• The full moon offers a spring tide, or king tide, in which high tides are higher and the low tides are lower because of the effects of gravity during a straight-line alignment of the Earth, the moon and the sun.
  — Jon Gambrell and Samy Magdy, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2021
• Their best chance may arrive on Monday, when a spring tide will raise the canal’s water level by up to about 18 inches, analysts and shipping agents said.
  — New York Times, 27 Mar. 2021
• Their best chance may arrive Monday, when a spring tide will raise the canal's water level by up to about 18 inches, analysts and shipping agents said.
  — Vivian Yee New York Times, Star Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021
• Their best chance may arrive Monday, when a spring tide will raise the canal’s water level by up to about 18 inches, analysts and shipping agents said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2021
• It was finally freed on March 29 when an unusually high spring tide helped the vessel’s release.
  — Rory Jones, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2021
• In general, tidal bores are at their strongest during spring tides, slightly more extreme tides that occur during full and new moons.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 7 Oct. 2017
• The partial freeing of the vessel came after intensive efforts to push and pull the vessel with 10 tugboats when the full moon brought spring tide, canal services firm Leth Agencies said, raising the canal’s water level and hopes for a breakthrough.
  — Isabel Debre and Samy Magdy, chicagotribune.com, 29 Mar. 2021
• Along the southern coast, safe harvesting with sufficiently high returns is only possible during low spring tides, when the sun and moon align, exerting their maximum gravitational force on the ebb and flow of the water.
  — Curtis W. Marean, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2012

Last Updated: 2 Sep 2024