How to Use tidal in a Sentence

tidal

adjective
  • So, the curved shape that made the question mark could be a tidal tail.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • But these tidal forces aren’t supposed to lap the shores of places like New York.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The gift is present, audible, in the air: the recorded sound, faint but steady, of the beat, the tidal rhythm, of the artist’s heart.
    Holland Cotter, New York Times, 13 July 2023
  • The introduction of the iPhone in 2007 was the tidal shift for the company.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Due to a lack of open, flat land, the field was situated in the tidal flats near the mouth of Ketchikan Creek.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Apr. 2022
  • But tidal forces are weaker for larger black holes, and the Jupiter Soup black hole would be about 1/500 the mass of the Milky Way.
    Randall Munroe, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Remember to watch your step and treat the tidal pools with respect.
    Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2022
  • Clustered on the east coast of Scotland are seven tidal pools.
    Freya Bromley, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The tidal forces of Saturn pull and squeeze the inside of Enceladus, and the friction generates enough heat to melt the ice.
    Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The Moon shines on tidal flats at Breakwater Beach in Brewster.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
  • Yet the tidal waves of prestige still keep their distance from Toyota.
    Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 16 Sep. 2022
  • In the same dream, K.C. told George that Bunky’s aquarium had tidal currents.
    Anne Fadiman, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Feb. 2023
  • Coupled with the high surf, large tidal swings are expected to reach around 5.5 feet.
    Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023
  • In the mid 2030s, when the moon’s orbit changes slightly and the tidal cycle peaks, high-tide flooding will be that much greater.
    David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The Kampar River is known for its tidal bores -- large waves that flow upstream in rivers.
    Arkansas Online, 23 Jan. 2022
  • First responders — working in shifts and teams — strapped him to stokes, wrapped him in a tarp and snaked him through the dense woods and tidal pools.
    Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The bottom shows the potential tidal signal over the whole time series.
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 30 Aug. 2023
  • In astronomy, tidal forces aren’t just what make the ocean come in and out every day.
    Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 12 July 2023
  • Discover what causes king tides and explore the tidal zone on this walk and talk.
    John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The plan quickly went awry, however, and Cook ended up face down in a tidal pool.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
  • But according to the preprint, the key lies in something called tidal heating.
    Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2023
  • TDEs stands for tidal disruption events and describes the process by which a star is consumed by a black hole.
    Phillip Nieto, Fox News, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The family summered on the tidal flats of Cape Cod, where the girls harvested and shucked oysters.
    Dania Maxwell, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2022
  • The river itself has tidal and non-tidal sections, and in some parts, is fast moving.
    Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Some also makes it to the coast and enters the tidal marshes, estuaries, bays and oceans.
    cleveland, 30 Jan. 2023
  • WASP-103b got its odd shape due to tidal forces acted upon it by its star, the researchers report.
    Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Dundee is a port on the Firth of Tay, the place where the river widens into a tidal estuary before entering the North Sea.
    David Brown, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2022
  • That creates tidal forces causing the surface to flex by as much as 330 feet, according to NASA.
    CBS News, 3 Jan. 2024
  • As the sun ascends, the tidal water in the creek’s lower reaches ebbs, exposing the mud flats that are the flamingos’ feeding grounds.
    Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Before then, much of the town center existed on land that is now tidal mudflats.
    Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 29 July 2023

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'tidal.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: