Ebbed Sentence Examples

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  • Slowly the strength ebbed from her body and reading became a chore.

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  • The sangar at first fell into the hands of the Russians, but they were soon ejected, and small British detachments reoccupied and held it, while the various Russian attacks flowed up and past it and ebbed back into the Quarry Ravine.

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  • The fire ebbed to glowing coals in the silent old building and she snuggled against him.

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  • Here his strength rapidly ebbed away, but his mental faculties remained brilliant to the last.

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  • During the summer his fortunes ebbed, and he was soon superseded by his kinsman Owen Roe O'Neill, who returned from military service abroad at the end of July.

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  • The tide began to flow which has hardly ever ebbed during three-and-twenty centuries.

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  • In those days it was a place of work with small colliers beaching themselves (deliberately) as the tide ebbed to off-load coal.

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  • As the market ebbed and flowed, some gaming women found niches playing puzzle games and action platformers with cute characters.

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  • All life seemed to have ebbed away, and even when the sun shone the day was

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  • On the front, too, the Russian attack came to a standstill and ebbed, for Soimonov's overcrowded battalions jostled one another and dissolved on the narrow and broken plateau.

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  • The tide of their dominion ebbed and flowed repeatedly, but the normal Khazari may be taken as the territory between the Caucasus, the Volga and the Don, with the outlying province of the Crimea, or Little Khazaria.

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