EBB in a Sentence

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24 example sentences for EBB, such as:

1. His confidence is at a low ebb.
2. Consumer confidence is currently at a low ebb.
3. He listened intently to the ebb and flow of these sounds.
4. She sat in silence enjoying the ebb and flow of conversation.
5. When the tide ebbs it's a rock pool inhabited by crustaceans.

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 Meanings and Examples of EBB
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ebb
 v.  fall away or back; decline or recede; fall back from the flood stage
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  As for yourself, death shall come to you from the sea, and your life shall ebb away very gently when you are full of years and peace of mind, and your people shall bless you.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XI
2  His changes of mood did not offend me, because I saw that I had nothing to do with their alternation; the ebb and flow depended on causes quite disconnected with me.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
3  One day I had come to my studies in lower spirits than usual; the ebb was occasioned by a poignantly felt disappointment.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
4  I had pulled down as far as Greenwich with the ebb tide, and had turned with the tide.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLVII
5  It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30. A LOSS
6  The music stopped as they entered and the crowd of people seemed to her confused mind to surge up to her like the roar of the sea and then ebb away, with lessening, ever-lessening sound.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
7  The atheistic taunts of his cruel master sunk his before dejected soul to the lowest ebb; and, though the hand of faith still held to the eternal rock, it was a numb, despairing grasp.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
8  However, the ship went out on the ebb tide; and was doubtless by morning far down the river mouth.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  "We have lost the first of the ebb," said the Director, suddenly.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
10  Whatever may be the combinations of the generals, the shock of armed masses has an incalculable ebb.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES
11  It was a flood tide complicated with a thousand ebb movements; the peculiarity of ebbs is to create intermixtures; hence the combination of very singular ideas; people adored both Napoleon and liberty.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
12  The crowd moved to and fro in the rooms like an ebb and flow of turquoises, rubies, emeralds, opals, and diamonds.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 96. The Contract.
13  He listened intently to the ebb and flow of these sounds.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XX
14  Goddess-born, follow we fate's ebb and flow, whatsoever it shall be; fortune must be borne to be overcome.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIFTH
15  For some reason, the two women had drawn together, in one of the unaccountable flows and ebbs of sympathy that exist between people.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
Example Sentence:
1  Consumer confidence is currently at a low ebb.
2  She sat in silence enjoying the ebb and flow of conversation.
3  His confidence is at a low ebb.
4  He had known her long enough to recognize the ebb and flow of her moods.
5  Sitting on the beach, Mrs. Dalloway watched the tide ebb: the waters receded, drawing away from her as she sat there all alone.
6  Relations between Morocco and Spain have been at low ebb now, first because of a breakdown in talks over Spanish fishing rights and, recently, over the illegal immigration issue.
7  When the tide ebbs it's a rock pool inhabited by crustaceans.