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The sensors actually detect the neutrons created in the upper atmosphere when high-speed particles slam into the nuclei of atoms of gases, knocking them apart and sending the neutrons groundward.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 6, 2012

From a transmitting antenna on one wing, radio waves are bounced groundward, caught on the rebound by a receiving antenna on the other wing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their works drop groundward, but themselves, I know, Reach many a time a heaven that's shut to me, Enter and take their place there sure enough,85 Though they come back and cannot tell the world.

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra

Janice, whose eyes had been dropped groundward during most of this colloquy, gave the pleader a come-and-go glance, then said breathlessly, “I—’T is—Wha—wha—What would you wish me to say?”

From Janice Meredith by Ford, Paul Leicester

So swift was the pace now that within a few minutes a wide clearing loomed ahead and her captor began to slip groundward.

From The Return of Tharn by Browne, Howard