How to Use ebb and flow in a Sentence

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• The truth is, that parental preference will ebb and flow.
  — Zara Hanawalt, Parents, 22 Sep. 2023
• And at the Hampton, six miles from the airport, that's upended the ebb and flow.
  — Alina Selyukh, NPR, 13 May 2024
• People's marriages ebb and flow and maybe there's no flow right now.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 7 Dec. 2023
• The oppositional winds dictate the ebb and flow of life on the coast.
  — Lydia Bell, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 May 2024
• Hanson has seen the edible flower trend ebb and flow over the years.
  — Jenna Kashou, Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2023
• The ebb and flow between tides this weekend near Hawkins Point are expected to be around a foot.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2024
• On a day that featured more ebb and flow than the nearby surf, patience was the key for Astiazaran.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2023
• Instead, homebuyers should expect rates to ebb and flow over the next few weeks.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2023
• Still, clinic leaders said protests tended to ebb and flow.
  — Chris Kenning, USA Today, 4 June 2023
• There are 26 mantras throughout the book that highlight the different ways bodies ebb and flow.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
• Their heated conversations ebb and flow, oscillating from the state of the world to the state of their lives.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023
• And if so, will passport renewals ever return to their normal rhythm of ebb and flow?
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Sep. 2023
• Just memorize these 40 or so combinations of dits and dahs, learn the ebb and flow of pauses, and go have fun—right?
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2023
• Home to faded casinos, blazing neon, and the ebb and flow of holiday makers.
  — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2023
• But Herbert and Johnson said there’s a natural ebb and flow to energy in a game.
  — Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
• Instead, the latter novel chronicles the ebb and flow of her characters’ lives over the course of a pivotal year.
  — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Sep. 2024
• Relationships with your adult children can ebb and flow over time.
  — Bea Lewis, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
• Fatigue is a long time coming, as users have navigated the ebb and flow of social media sites for decades.
  — Maham Javaid, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
• Think of your budget as a living document, flexible enough to handle the ebb and flow of your income.
  — Amy Northard, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
• There’s an unassuming visual poetry to the rhythms captured here, a tonal match to the natural ebb and flow of the lives depicted.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2023
• Putin turned the question towards his military chiefs, who he’s slowly decimated over the 30 months of this war’s ebb and flow.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 13 Aug. 2024
• The public temperature on designer goods tends to ebb and flow.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
• As these waves pass through dark matter detectors, researchers can observe their ebb and flow in predictable ways.
  — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
• The patty melt has stood patiently in the shadow of the hamburger for so long that resistance to the ebb and flow of fashion seems to be baked into its being.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
• Dockworkers were some of world trade’s first gig workers and largely still operate like that today — jobs ebb and flow along with the clip of port traffic.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2024
• While trends ebb and flow, organic textures always come back into vogue.
  — Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Sep. 2023
• But even evergreen pieces ebb and flow at the center of our collective obsession.
  — Laura Reilly, Vogue, 17 July 2023
• Every year Earth continues its turning, as does the churning ebb and flow of human affairs, for better or worse.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 29 Dec. 2023
• As the sun sets over the digital ocean, the dance between the whales and minnows continues, each influencing and adjusting to the other in a constant ebb and flow.
  — Jon Stojan, Detroit Free Press, 29 Aug. 2023
• Economic cycles, of course, ebb and flow and construction may rebound.
  — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024