landwards
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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The Irish Sea, whipped by a bitter wind, crashes onto the shore, hurling spray landwards and soaking the ledge.
From BBC • Dec. 18, 2023
About four o'clock, looking landwards from a little sandy knoll just in front of his strange abode, he saw two figures coming along the dyke path.
From The Golden Web by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
The Kingsdown men were keenly watching the approaching catastrophe as the Glendura came landwards.
From Heroes of the Goodwin Sands by Treanor, Thomas Stanley
Between her and the land would be about 100 fathoms, or 200 yards of water; but that water was one furious mass of advancing billows hurled landwards by this great tempest.
From Heroes of the Goodwin Sands by Treanor, Thomas Stanley
This band is walled to landwards by a wall of dark forest, mounted against the sky to seaward by a wall of white surf; beyond that there is the horizon-bounded ocean.
From West African studies by Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
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