How do you use the word "tide" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "tide": Our boat drifted to shore on the tide. People don't like to swim against the tide.

Tide Meaning

/taɪd/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThe daily fluctuation in the level of the sea caused by the gravitational influence of the moon and the sun.

nounThe associated flow of water.

Sentence Examples

Our boat drifted to shore on the tide.

People don't like to swim against the tide.

The ebb and flow of the tide

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

surge

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The ____ brings in seawater twice daily due to the moon's gravity.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

We had to move our blankets further up the beach because the ____ was coming in very quickly today.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *deh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis Proto-Germanic *tīdiz Proto-West Germanic *tīdi Old English tīd Middle English tyde English tide Inherited from Middle English tyde, from Old English tīd, from Proto-West Germanic *tīdi, from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis, from *deh₂y- + *-tis. Related to time. Cognate with Dutch tijd (“time”), German Zeit (“time”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish tid (“time”), Faroese and Icelandic tíð (“time”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Go I charge thee, inuite them all, let in the tide / Of Knaues once more: my Cook and Ile provide." — c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 88, column 1:

"There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune [...]" — 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

"[...] and rest their weary limbs a tide." — 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza xxix:

"Which, at th'appointed tyde, / Each one did make his Bryde" — 1596, Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion:

"at the tide / Of Christ his birth" — 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain from the Birth of Jesus Christ until the year MDCXLVIII:

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