| 单词 | slack tide |
| 例句 | There was a car ready to leave, and I found a seat next the window and it started and I watched it sort of frazzle out into slack tide flats, and then trees. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The event takes place during slack tide, a period between tides when there isn’t a current. Pony swim brings ‘Misty’ lovers back to Chincoteague 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z An on-board computer steers the kite into the prevailing current, then idles it at slack tide, maintaining a constant depth in the water column. The underwater 'kites' generating electricity as they move 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z A group of volunteers called the “Saltwater Cowboys” rounds up the ponies and leads them through the passage at slack tide. Annual Chincoteague pony swim off Va. set for Wednesday 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z They were supposed to arrive once slack tide, a somewhat unpredictable time of day, hit, and that was several long moments ago. The Wild Ponies of Chincoteague Island This was a tough maneuver, and it could be performed only during slack tide, when the water was at its stillest. Waterborne Workhorses Time Staten Island’s Tides 2013-07-31T03:36:12Z This makes it fairer; on the ebb, it is hard to pass a leader who hugs the shore in the slack tide. Boating 2011-09-21T02:00:35.453Z At nearly slack tide, there was a slight current running south, with calm water and little wind. | Rowing: Through Rowing, New Confidence 2011-05-21T22:04:56Z At slack tide, it is hard to tell which way lies the open sea and which way the lagoon. Tortoise lagoon 2011-01-08T12:00:26Z The signal comes just before noon to announce that slack tide, when the water is still, has finally arrived in this basin. The Wild Ponies of Chincoteague Island Waterborne Workhorses Time Staten Island’s Tides It was slack tide and, for the moment, the slate gray waters of the Kill Van Kull were still. Waterborne Workhorses Time Staten Island’s Tides 2013-07-31T03:36:12Z Having so much iron on board, and so near this wondrous delicate needle, I determined to have the boat “swung” at Greenhithe, where the slack tide allows the largest vessels conveniently to adjust their compasses. The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" It was slack tide now and the pea-pod just held her own. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good As it was nearly slack tide when we got up to the lighthouse, and as the water was smooth, papa and Uncle Tom agreed to land. A Yacht Voyage Round England A bar, on which a tremendous surf breaks, stretches across the mouth of the river, so that, except in calm weather and a slack tide, the landing is dangerous in the extreme. Hurricane Hurry It was slack tide then, I suppose, and now it is rising. More About Peggy Ahead of him—ahead but a few yards only—he heard the slack tide run faintly on the shingle. The Mayor of Troy With a good start, and a fair wind and slack tide, Johnson was off Vienna at eight o'clock. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times Nine P.M. is slack tide in a morning newspaper office. The Clarion You go out and see how fur you can walk on that hard beach now it's slack tide. Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper So she came slowly over the glassy water of the slack tide, and my men watched her, saying nothing. Wulfric the Weapon Thane Unless the ship were to touch the land, and then only at full or slack tide. Dracula There is such a thing as slack tide in the affairs of men, when a crisis seems as if it would never come, and all things stagnate. Magnum Bonum In the momentary slack tide of work, the giant had conceived the idea of searching out the driver crew for purposes of pugilistic vengeance. The Blazed Trail |
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