They have less than an hour before the tide rushes back in.
Then, like the tide rushing in across a vast, empty beach, he felt the pain return.
He had thought the tide, rushing in from both ends, would cancel itself.
Then a storm breaks, or a particularly high tide rushes in.
The tide already rushed the edges of the image, breaking up the light.
The tide rushed out of the narrow cut in the railroad embankment.
You have to do it when the tide is rushing in, so the current will carry you inland, instead of out to sea.
The tide rushing in and out is reminiscent of the sound of drums beating quickly.
I feel like a kid on the beach, wailing about the impending loss of my sandcastle as the rising tide rushes in!
A fiery tide of colour rushed to Isabel's cheeks.