ebb

Ebb and flow, checks and balances, the center would hold, et cetera.

Analyzing the ebb and flow of the race, Howie said Weiland has positive momentum but Rounds is collapsing.

Perhaps this accounts for the ebb and flow of her popularity.

But Shrier noted that undergarment trends tend to “ebb and flow.”

Diplomatic relations between the United States and Russia are at a disturbingly low ebb.

Having passed all the dangers, the ebb-tide very soon carried us out of the river into Hanover Bay.

The ebb tide after noon was against us, and the wind being light, we were making no progress.

We cross over the bridges that span salty channels, oozy and redolent of ocean and sea-weed during the hours of ebb.

Russian opera was then at a low ebb, and he only went to hear his favourite work, A Life for the Tsar.

Every emotion, unless it be that of love, must have its ebb; and by nightfall the settlers were returning to their old caution.