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coastward

American  
[kohst-werd] / ˈkoʊst wərd /

adverb

  1. Also coastwards. toward the coast.

    We left the sinking ship in lifeboats and rowed coastward.


adjective

  1. directed toward the coast.

    a coastward migration.

Etymology

Origin of coastward

First recorded in 1850–55; coast + -ward

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

Had we been simply unfettered, our will was good to have started directly coastward, and to have explored those vast tracts of Asia Minor, of so much of which nothing is known.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various

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