Usage examples (13)

• In those conditions the ebbtide could be unpredictably fierce.
• Perhaps a better comparison is that of ripples or gentle waves, as seen following each other on the ebbtide in a still time, on the beach.
• Charleston had shown a great party in the ebbtide of disintegration, tainted by the spirit of disunion.
• Simone Buonarroti, his father, belonged to an ebbtide branch of the nobility that had lost everything but the memory of great ancestors turned to dust.