Our society idolises the independent individual with consumer power and endless choices. Retirement looks like an ebbing tide withdrawing such freedom from reach.
What this says to me is that the delta variant is ebbing, more people have been vaccinated and there is a lot of pent up demand in the system post-COVID.
The Pleistocene is sometimes called the Ice Age, when glaciers were constantly ebbing and flowing across the land, holding moisture when they froze and releasing it again when they thawed.
Now that the sun was setting in a welter of crimson behind the hills across the Flint River, the warmth of the April day was ebbing into a faint but balmy chill.
I did not know whether it was the new place, the burden of additional subjects, or my lack of interest, I found my grades ebbing away like the faded leaves in the town's Palm trees.
She looked again at Jude, critically gauged his ebbing life, as she had done so many times during the late months, and glancing at his watch, which was hung up by way of timepiece, rose impatiently.