: a tide of greater-than-average range around the times of new moon and full moon
Examples of springtide in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
Those Amazing Birds Tens of thousands of red knots and other coastal waders were forced into flight from the remaining gravel bars and mudflats by a high incoming spring tide.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
The Belgians, to avoid the need for negative elevation numbers on maps of the coast, settled on the low-water point recorded during spring tide at Ostend.
—Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
As a spring tide rushed out of Baltimore harbor just after midnight on Tuesday, the hulking outlines of a cargo ship nearly three football fields long and stacked high with thousands of containers sliced through frigid waters toward the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
—Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
See All Example Sentences for springtide
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Noun
The Weather Service said the combination of spring tides and storm surge will bring minor high tide flooding to the San Francisco Bay and Monterey Bay areas.
—Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
Those Amazing Birds Tens of thousands of red knots and other coastal waders were forced into flight from the remaining gravel bars and mudflats by a high incoming spring tide.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
The Belgians, to avoid the need for negative elevation numbers on maps of the coast, settled on the low-water point recorded during spring tide at Ostend.
—Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
As a spring tide rushed out of Baltimore harbor just after midnight on Tuesday, the hulking outlines of a cargo ship nearly three football fields long and stacked high with thousands of containers sliced through frigid waters toward the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
—Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
See All Example Sentences for springtide
Cite this Entry
“Springtide.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/springtide. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
