Noun : the ebb of a once great nation. ,His fortunes were at a low ebb.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : His life is gradually ebbing.    From Dictionary.com. 

It was but one sip but it was enough to recall my ebbing life.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference

Susan Lisovicz is watching the numbers and, boy, they're just kind of ebbing and flowing rather quickly.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2008] Reference

Though she laughed, his wife's patience was ebbing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference

The rising New Media tide does not seem to be ebbing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jonathan Shapiro: The Future of Advertising] Reference

Willa rose slowly to her feet, her rich color ebbing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Ace] Reference

EARTH: Surface that sprawls till ebbing edges of sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [NATURAE] Reference

And Clarence Vaughan watches the slowly ebbing life tide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference

After two years of critical mockery and ebbing ratings, E!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna Nicole's Tabloid Odyssey] Reference

Creed, who felt his strength ebbing, calculated the distance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference

But even Sanders sees signs that the power of race is ebbing.    From Wordnik.com.  [BACK ON THE BRIDGE] Reference

The tide of social democracy may be ebbing, even if only a bit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Left? Right? Center?] Reference

Their flat-bottomed boats were suitable to shallows and ebbing tides.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

The tide was ebbing and the sun going down, when from the eastward came.    From Wordnik.com.  [Granny's Wonderful Chair] Reference

He felt his power to resist was ebbing away -- falling from him like a cloak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of Affairs] Reference

She feels the tension loosen and slip away gradually, like the ebbing of a tide.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Impulse of Breathing] Reference

But, as his diary detailed it, he felt strength ebbing away with each passing day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starman's Quest] Reference

The squabbling only calls attention to the larger issue of Freud's ebbing stature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trouble With Sigmund] Reference

But Nan braced herself and still held the door, though her strength was fast ebbing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves] Reference

His parents made love slowly, keeping rhythm with the rising and ebbing of the tides.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Titan. An Office Romance] Reference

Don't we all know that sinking feeling when we recognize our vacation high is ebbing?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Do you have a happy place?] Reference

There is no drought, no ebbing, but a continual flowing in, and filling up, and flooding out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quiet Talks on Power] Reference

But as the Clinton era wound down, the organization found its high profile ebbing away, as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rock On] Reference

Each was trying with all his might to save a life very dear to them which was slowly ebbing away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference

And even those who argued the fuss was ebbing were eager to know if we had anything new to report.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Editor's Desk] Reference

"The overriding picture emerging in the gold market is one that points toward ebbing investment demand,".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold Sinks to 12-Week Low] Reference

He let loose another sigh, and they faded just as quickly, the waters ebbing back to their normal levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sing] Reference

Hip-hop's dominance of black pop culture and the de facto huge role in mainstream pop is slowly ebbing away.    From Wordnik.com.  ['What Is Soul?' New Faces Have Answers] Reference

Apart from the growing disaffection of his own Cypriots, there are signs that his support in Ankara is also ebbing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deadline On Cyprus] Reference

There's a sappy collaboration with Henley about a secret affair and a Nicks duet with broken wings and ebbing tides.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crow Must Go On] Reference

Recent polls suggest that Euro-skeptic sentiment in the Netherlands is ebbing and that the Dutch will say yes this spring.    From Wordnik.com.  [ALL EYES ON FRANCE] Reference

With the weekend approaching and his pain not ebbing, he made another appointment with the sole purpose of getting some relief.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctors, patients need to improve dialogue on pain] Reference

A rustle in the brushwood snaps my attention back to the yard and I catch Ben's shadow ebbing the same direction as the mallards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Talking To Flowers] Reference

We all start to back away from each other, adrenaline is ebbing away and all of my injuries are starting to sting and tighten up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Badface Investigates - Fighting] Reference

With ebbing demand in the United States, and subsidies propping up Japan's industry set to expire, the real bright spot is Brazil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Car-Naval!] Reference

Corporate retrenchments may be slowing, and other sources of job loss -- weak overall demand, an expanding trade deficit -- may be ebbing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creaky Job Machine] Reference