begin to ebb
Frequency: 6.25.5 per million words
To start receding or diminishing.
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Examples (10)
- As the sun set, the tide began to ebb, revealing the glistening sand.
- After weeks of excitement, their enthusiasm for the project began to ebb.
- His confidence, once so strong, began to ebb after the critical feedback.
- Following the long illness, her strength began to ebb noticeably.
- As daylight began to ebb, the city lights started to twinkle.
- Public support for the new law began to ebb when its full cost was revealed.
- With each passing day without news, the family's hope began to ebb.
- The empire's vast influence began to ebb in its final century.
- After a while, the initial shock of the news began to ebb, replaced by a quiet sadness.
- The power of the storm began to ebb as it moved further inland.