How to Use high tide in a Sentence

high tide

noun
  • At high tide the water covers the rocks completely.
  • After a week or so, the young hatch at high tide and head to sea.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Set-jetting just hit high tide on Maui.
    — Kim Westerman, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Check tide tables and go at high tide for the best chance for a good show.
    — Brian J. Cantwell, chicagotribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The beach itself can be small at high tide, but opens up with the tide is out.
    — oregonlive, 5 June 2021
  • The house appears to be overwhelmed by the high tide.
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 10 May 2022
  • Low tides will come in about seven hours after the high tides peak.
    — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Eight of the gulls were dead when they were found on the high tide line mixed with seaweed.
    — Daily Pilot, 15 Oct. 2019
  • That means that high tides could be more than a foot higher than normal.
    — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Events have called them to lead us through a high tide of reckless folly.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 1 Mar. 2025
  • For four days after a high tide, grunions surf to shore on breaking waves.
    — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • And just now may be the high tide, the zenith, of construction projects.
    — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 30 June 2018
  • And this storm could arrive during high tide, which might add a bit to the surge.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Workers also learned, the hard way, that high tide was not a good time to spray.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2021
  • State law says the public owns all coastline on the ocean side of the mean high tide line.
    — Fortune, 24 Apr. 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 city is sinking, parts of it are below high tide today.
    — John Ramos, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Grunion wash ashore on extreme high tides to lay eggs in the sand and then return to the ocean.
    — Ernie Cowan Outdoors, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • The best time to snorkel is during the hour before and after high tide.
    — Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 22 July 2024
  • That would cause Venice to suffer flooding twice a day at high tide.
    — Marcello Rossi, WIRED, 5 Apr. 2018
  • It’s meant to represent the debris left on the beach by high tide.
    — Jeanine Barone, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The eggs develop over 10 days and hatch with the next high tide.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
  • When high tides arrive, water brings silt into the bay.
    — Andrea Tamayo, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2025
  • How high the water gets depends in part on whether the surge peaks during high tide.
    — Jon Kamp, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2022
  • That would add water to the high tide that’s in the forecast, Haines said.
    — Jeff Martin, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
  • There is no concern for flooding with the late evening high tide, Lessor said.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Despite these efforts, high tide came and went, and the whale remained beached.
    — Robin Romm, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026
  • Use grass shrimp for bait and be there at high tide for the first two, three hours of the outgoing tide.
    — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2018
  • The steep slope of the sand during high tide leaves even the most fit visitors out of breath.
    — Dawn Gilbertson, azcentral, 25 June 2018

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