How to Use tidal in a Sentence

tidal

adjective
  • But the tidal forces pull both ways.
    Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 11 June 2026
  • For hours, the group waded in the tidal pool.
    Jack Prator, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Boat to them, scoop them out of the bay and slurp them up on a tidal flat.
    Richard Stenger, SFChronicle.com, 3 July 2018
  • Even then, the tidal force is enough to affect how the moon forms.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2024
  • So, the curved shape that made the question mark could be a tidal tail.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Remember to watch your step and treat the tidal pools with respect.
    Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2022
  • But a recent tidal shift has seen the issue resonate in dozens of states.
    Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 23 Apr. 2024
  • On the other side of a tidal creek, a black mangrove stood like a sentry.
    Michael Adno, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
  • This change in gravity with distance is called the tidal force.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 22 May 2026
  • His big, strong build was a perfect match for the hard-running tidal sloughs, banked with deep mud.
    Steve Meyer, Alaska Dispatch News, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The air taxi drops us off in a sprawling tidal grassland to the south of Chenik.
    Acacia Johnson, National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Along the coast, powerful winds led to some of the worst tidal flooding in four decades.
    CBS News, 7 Jan. 2018
  • But these tidal forces aren’t supposed to lap the shores of places like New York.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2022
  • High tidal waves were seen in both countries and led to flooding on parts of the Izmir coast.
    Saphora Smith, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The result of the tidal force is a stretching and squashing of Earth.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Clustered on the east coast of Scotland are seven tidal pools.
    Freya Bromley, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Nov. 2023
  • So the tidal bulge that rises on the side of Earth nearest the moon spins just ahead of the orb.
    National Geographic, 3 July 2019
  • Yet the tidal waves of prestige still keep their distance from Toyota.
    Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The star spins much slower than the planet though, so the tidal tango plays out in reverse.
    Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Penghu's collection of intact tidal traps is the largest anywhere in the world.
    Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Werner said the whales were then placed in a tidal stream to relieve the pressure on their bodies.
    Nick Perry, The Seattle Times, 28 Nov. 2018
  • Because of this, the tidal bulges wander north and south over the course of the moon’s loops around Earth.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 31 July 2025
  • In the midst of the storm was a full moon which created a tidal surge that largely destroyed the camp.
    Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The program restored more than 1,800 acres of tidal coast land.
    Denise Coffey, courant.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Kids can swim and snorkel in the tidal pools, and there's plenty of room to bring beach chairs and small coolers on the boat.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Skinner said tidal predictions were blown out of the water.
    Steven Rosenfeld, Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Meanwhile, at low tide, the beach widens—revealing tidal pools where children hunt for tiny crabs and sea glass.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The force of China’s engagement with Africa is like a tidal pull.
    Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Mar. 2018
  • At the height of the storm, the tidal surge was likely even higher than that, Justin Landry said.
    Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Their shapes often distort as one galaxy exerts tidal forces on the other.
    Big Think, 30 Mar. 2026

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