leftwards
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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Then Darlow, who was perhaps unsighted, sprawled leftwards to turn away Lo Celso’s placed effort.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 27, 2020
What worries a section of them isn't so much the leftwards drift of the party but a perceived lack of competence.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2015
But the post-war mess in the country contributed to Labour jettisoning his successful electoral formula, targeted at Middle England, and moving leftwards.
From BBC ● May 26, 2015
Alongside his late friend Bob Crow, Serwotka has often been pegged as a member of organised labour’s “awkward squad”: not Labour-affiliated and keen to push the union movement leftwards.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2014
For suddenly the footmen, for a reason which she did not immediately divine, fell away leftwards, and the horse that bore the other prisoner strove to turn with them.
From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.
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