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
Then the light was raised and swept away landwards.
From The Men Who Wrought by Cullum, Ridgwell
They thus skirt the Frozen Ocean from near the Lena delta to and beyond the Kolyma, and are conterminous landwards with the Yakuts on the south-west and the Chukchi on the north-east.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
Nay, if a shifting wind but carried the ashes landwards, blight or murrain would follow surely.
From The Unknown Sea by Housman, Clemence
Amidst words of gratitude and with praise on their lips to a merciful God, the utterly exhausted crew saw the Deal men set sail and fight their way again through the storm landwards.
From Heroes of the Goodwin Sands by Treanor, Thomas Stanley
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