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Usage examples of "ebb away".
He hadthought this uniquely sports-related sensation would ebb away with age andmaturity when a young man no longer takes a small event like a basketballgame and blows it into an entity of near biblical importance, whensomething so relatively insignificant in the long run is no longer magnifiedto epic dimensions through the prism of youth.
He stayed for some moments, letting the pain ebb away from his legs and taking in this wholly unexpected scene: a vast bowl, miles and miles across, with a lake in the middle, a much gentler slope down the inside, trees almost to the top - a landscape of mixed forest interspersed with bamboo groves and wide stretches of grass, particularly by the lake.
He could feel it in the fanir, now beginning to ebb away and leave him weak.
For no doubt it must be conceded that many bodies ebb away and withdraw from things.
For if he begins the march at the head of the army and cannot finish, all the spirit will fall from his soldiers and the power of the Guomindang will ebb away.
I fclt an inexpressible feeling of dread begin to grow in the pit of my stomach, and the joy of a moment before began to ebb away.
The two men looked at each other, and Terrel saw the tension between them slowly ebb away.
Nevyn felt his weariness ebb away as they freely poured out some of their life to him, a gift between friends.