How to Use high tide in a Sentence

high tide

noun
Definition of high tidenext
  • 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
  • And the surges are added feet of water on top of high tide.
    — Brian Resnick, Vox, 14 Sep. 2018
  • There’s a high tide of tourists there, and then there’s a low tide of tourists there.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 10 July 2019
  • 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
  • After a week or so, the young hatch at high tide and head to sea.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
  • And just now may be the high tide, the zenith, of construction projects.
    — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 30 June 2018
  • 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 new route allowed access to the pools even at high tide.
    — Ha Duong, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Eight of the gulls were dead when they were found on the high tide line mixed with seaweed.
    — Daily Pilot, 15 Oct. 2019
  • The beach itself can be small at high tide, but opens up with the tide is out.
    — oregonlive, 5 June 2021
  • How storm surge and high tide add up to coastal flooding.
    — Anthony C. Didlake Jr., Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024
  • All boats should be raised by a high tide of customers.
    — Tony Holt, Arkansas Online, 11 June 2023
  • On the other side of the Earth, a high tide is produced where the Moon’s pull is weakest.
    — Patrick May, The Mercury News, 3 June 2019
  • And this storm could arrive during high tide, which might add a bit to the surge.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 26 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • The show will move from dawn in the Kalahari to the hour after the rains in the Amazon to high tide in the Australian coral reef.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The steep slope of the sand during high tide leaves even the most fit visitors out of breath.
    — Dawn Gilbertson, azcentral, 25 June 2018
  • 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 front of the hotel, Playa Santana’s left-breaking point or its many beach breaks are fun at middle to high tide.
    — Noah Lederman, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2024

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