How to Use high tide in a Sentence

high tide

noun
  • At high tide the water covers the rocks completely.
  • Or the ghost ship was kind of brought in by a high tide.
    Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2022
  • In high tide, the reef is swallowed by the sea once again.
    Janice Wald Henderson, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The Siege of Vienna in 1529 was the high tide of the Ottomans.
    Razib Khan, National Review, 31 July 2021
  • And the height of the storm did not coincide with high tide.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2021
  • The eggs develop over 10 days and hatch with the next high tide.
    Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
  • That would add water to the high tide that’s in the forecast, Haines said.
    Jeff Martin, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The plan was to wait until high tide to tow the whale out to deep water and sink the body.
    Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The beach itself can be small at high tide, but opens up with the tide is out.
    oregonlive, 5 June 2021
  • All boats should be raised by a high tide of customers.
    Tony Holt, Arkansas Online, 11 June 2023
  • But spring tides are just one way the high tide varies over time, NASA explains.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2021
  • The best time to snorkel is during the hour before and after high tide.
    Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 22 July 2024
  • Workers also learned, the hard way, that high tide was not a good time to spray.
    Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The tags that track the whales’ movement show the Sounders synch their feeding precisely to the high tide.
    Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2021
  • There is no concern for flooding with the late evening high tide, Lessor said.
    Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 17 Jan. 2022
  • The next high tides near where the storm came ashore are on Wednesday afternoon.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Also, at high tide, there’s little to no sand to walk on.
    Brittany Levine Beckman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
  • How high the water gets depends in part on whether the surge peaks during high tide.
    Jon Kamp, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2022
  • In January, large waves and high tides destroyed parts of the town’s wharf.
    Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2023
  • The resurgent seagrass has sharp edges, and at high tide swathes of it are submerged.
    Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2024
  • During certain parts of the day, much of the beach is consumed by the high tide, State Police said.
    BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2021
  • The plane landed during high tide when water covered much of the beach, which is rocky and at the base of a steep cliff.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The study found that an area the size of the state of New Jersey that is now above water will be submerged at high tide in 2050.
    Alex Lubben, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2022
  • At high tide, the ocean waves lap up against the dune, which itself is badly eroded.
    By wayne Parry, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2024
  • If the peak surge occurred at high tide, a storm surge of 1-2 feet would be possible.
    Star Tribune, 4 July 2021
  • The wall now stands about 30 feet tall, barely nosing above the water line at high tide.
    Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 June 2021
  • Erosion will be greatest at high tide around 7 p.m. and 7 a.m., the NWS stated.
    Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 21 June 2024
  • Once there, the best way to explore the lush scenery (when there is a high tide) is to go kayaking or stand-up paddling.
    Dimitris Sideridis, CNN, 27 Aug. 2021
  • If a storm arrives during a lunar high tide, the water level will be even higher.
    Javier Zarracina, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Milton’s storm surge is forecasted to raise water levels by eight to 12 feet in Tampa Bay, if peak surge happens during the high tide.
    Solcyré Burga, TIME, 7 Oct. 2024

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