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Meaning of flood tide in English
- After nightfall a strong flood tide would be setting up along shore to the Spanish anchorage.
- And the next morning the cutter was, with the assistance of the flood tide, making quick progress to the southward.
- It was a boisterous day, half a gale of wind against the flood tide.
- So the hours of flood tide passed, and then the ship began to swing idly as the slack came.
- When the flood tide rippled about the wreck it was obvious the pump was getting the water down.
Examples of flood tide
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Flood tide and ebb tide, late dawns and early nights—these will occur whether the closing time is 36, 42, or 48 hours.
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Flood tides occur when the tide exceeds a peak of 7.9 metres.
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A pronounced tidal asymmetry with an ebb tide lasting twice as long as the flood tide is characteristic of the area.
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For, as any veteran methodist field preacher knew, just as the flood tide of enthusiasm could sweep men into the fold, so the ebb would draw them out.
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In fact, these places are so dangerous that there has been practically a stoppage on using them when there is a flood tide.
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That was the time of the flood tide!
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Reception areas have not been designated and no preparations have been made to receive the flood tide of humanity pouring from the cities.
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What can escape a nylon net 1,000 yards long, operated on a flood tide and drifting into the river mouth?
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The directive will not trigger a flood tide of new migrants, but it is a particularly valuable mechanism for young people.
The flood tide of migrants along our southern borders is upsetting our cosy calculation that inequality can be sustained without cost.
She, too, is trying to hold back the flood tide of disaster with inadequate funds.
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It is always flood tide with the national expenditure.
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It is a drop in the ocean compared with the full flood tide of our hard currency balance.
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The second ingredient in this flood tide of opinion is the increasing concern for the totality of our physical environment.
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The drift netters come along with their 1,000-yard nylon nets and set them across the flood tide as near to the river mouth as they can.
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