coastward

American  

[kohst-werd] / ˈkoʊst wərd /

adverb

1. Also coastwards. toward the coast.

   We left the sinking ship in lifeboats and rowed coastward.

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adjective

1. directed toward the coast.

   a coastward migration.

Etymology

Origin of coastward

First recorded in 1850–55; coast + -ward

Example Sentences

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

His stock was out of England by way of the Tennessee mountains, drifting Pacific coastward after the war of the Rebellion, and he was a Pot Hunter by occasion and inclination.

From Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy by Militia of Mercy (U.S.). Gift Book Committee