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suffice for a period between two points
This money will keep us going for another year
How To Use tide over In A Sentence
- The only and best way to tide over the difficulties is to improve the technological competitiveness of domestic enterprises.
- He sold his furniture to tide over his illness.
- On the other hand, when the sun is so placed as to give us a low tide while the moon is producing a high tide, the net result that we actually experience is merely the excess of the lunar tide over the solar tide; these are what we call neap tides. Time and Tide A Romance of the Moon
- The banks were prepared to put up 50 million euros to tide over the company.
- She needs some money to tide over the period of unemployment.
- The submersible rose higher in the dock, the overflowing sea rushing like a tide over their boots.
- Here, at an adjacent workroom, they learn traditional crafts like weaving and stitching cross-stitch patterns of embroidery on traditional clothes and souvenir items from which they earn a few shekels to tide over through these lean months, and for the younger ones, the latest fad in hairdressing. Thursdays with my sisters
- The scholarship helped Martin to tide over a temporary embarrassment.
- She needs some money to tide over the period of unemployment.
- To work together and tide over the difficulties has become our top priority.