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
And he stopped and looked landwards, where the indistinct grey blur was beginning to take the pattern of fields and cliffs and beach.
From By Berwen Banks by Allen Raine
The invisible flocks of sea-birds flying landwards, true precursors of a storm, wailed and shrieked in curiously weird cadence, like the ghosts of shipwrecked mariners.
From Nevermore by Rolf Bolderwood
One large vessel, the ship Glendura, having parted her anchors in the great sea that was running, was driving landwards.
From Heroes of the Goodwin Sands by Thomas Stanley Treanor
Back of these are scraggly spruces, with branches which have been so long blown landwards that they have bent and grown altogether on that side,—permanent weather-vanes of Fundy’s storms.
From The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year by William Beebe
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