coastward
Americanadverb
adjective
Etymology
Origin of coastward
Example Sentences
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Driving coastward through Mississippi last month, I hit rain.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2021
Travel coastward, jump two and a half centuries or so, sail into the fog, and you’ll soon make landfall in “The Lighthouse.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 18, 2019
Then, in hundreds of canyons leading coastward from the mountains, they can accelerate up to 75 m.p.h.
From Time Magazine Archive
Our boats slid easily through the waves, three abreast, a friendly current bearing us coastward.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
On the slow weedy waterway he had floated on his raft coastward over Ireland drawn by a haulage rope past beds of reeds, over slime, mudchoked bottles, carrion dogs.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
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