How to Use tidal in a Sentence

tidal

adjective

• So, the curved shape that made the question mark could be a tidal tail.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2023
• Even then, the tidal force is enough to affect how the moon forms.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2024
• That means bays, rivers, tidal marshes, and the open ocean.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 26 June 2020
• But these tidal forces aren’t supposed to lap the shores of places like New York.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2022
• So the tidal bulge that rises on the side of Earth nearest the moon spins just ahead of the orb.
  — National Geographic, 3 July 2019
• The gift is present, audible, in the air: the recorded sound, faint but steady, of the beat, the tidal rhythm, of the artist’s heart.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 13 July 2023
• The air taxi drops us off in a sprawling tidal grassland to the south of Chenik.
  — Acacia Johnson, National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2020
• His notes also include phase of the moon, the tidal currents and the strength of the UV rays.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 10 July 2019
• The result of the tidal force is a stretching and squashing of Earth.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Sep. 2019
• The introduction of the iPhone in 2007 was the tidal shift for the company.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2022
• The bay flows out to the Bristol Channel, which has one of the highest tidal ranges in the world.
  — Amy Alipio, National Geographic, 14 Dec. 2019
• At the height of the storm, the tidal surge was likely even higher than that, Justin Landry said.
  — Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2021
• Due to a lack of open, flat land, the field was situated in the tidal flats near the mouth of Ketchikan Creek.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Apr. 2022
• Until the early 1800s the area around present-day Beach Street was tidal flats.
  — Milton J. Valencia, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Nov. 2019
• High tidal waves were seen in both countries and led to flooding on parts of the Izmir coast.
  — Saphora Smith, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2020
• The same tidal forces shape the odd-year and midterm contests following a race for the White House.
  — John Harwood, CNN, 31 Oct. 2021
• But tidal forces are weaker for larger black holes, and the Jupiter Soup black hole would be about 1/500 the mass of the Milky Way.
  — Randall Munroe, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2022
• Remember to watch your step and treat the tidal pools with respect.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2022
• On the other side of a tidal creek, a black mangrove stood like a sentry.
  — Michael Adno, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
• Like our Moon, Ganymede is locked by the tidal forces of Jupiter so one side always faces the planet.
  — David Szondy, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2024
• In the midst of the tidal calm around her, Miss Hennepin County would not allow it.
  — Marion Winik, Star Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021
• The delta, a vast tidal estuary that sits on the eastern edge of the Bay Area, is fed by the state’s two largest rivers.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 June 2021
• The flock of perhaps 30 widgeon dipped low over the decoys swaying in the current of the tidal slough.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Oct. 2020
• But a recent tidal shift has seen the issue resonate in dozens of states.
  — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 23 Apr. 2024
• Clustered on the east coast of Scotland are seven tidal pools.
  — Freya Bromley, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Nov. 2023
• The Hudson River and the small creeks and flats on its edges are a tidal estuary.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 24 Dec. 2020
• The tidal forces of Saturn pull and squeeze the inside of Enceladus, and the friction generates enough heat to melt the ice.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• The Moon shines on tidal flats at Breakwater Beach in Brewster.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
• The water in the seven-mile-long tidal estuary on Monterey Bay got cleaner.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
• The night was a downhill slope, a movement in woeful reverse, a tidal pull back into the tumult and dangerous madness of what must now be called the era of Trump.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Jan 2025