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
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 Bolderwood, Rolf
“The old place looks just the same as it did five years ago,” said Tom to himself as he leaned over the bulwarks, gazing landwards.
From The War of the Axe Adventures in South Africa by Percy-Groves, J.
When within twenty yards of the shore the boat was turned till her stern pointed landwards.
From The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
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
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