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
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Our boats slid easily through the waves, three abreast, a friendly current bearing us coastward.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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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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