rightwards
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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Kishida, who hails from Hiroshima, the first city to ever suffer an atomic bombing, was on the more dovish side of the LDP, but has since tacked rightwards.
From Reuters • Jul. 6, 2022
Pecresse, a moderate within a conservative party that has lurched rightwards, would be France's first woman president if she wins the election.
From Reuters • Mar. 30, 2022
The old trope is that the young begin as naive leftists then drift rightwards with age.
From The Guardian • Oct. 18, 2018
Murdoch moved decisively rightwards from the mid 70s, as the free-market revolution began to achieve critical mass across the west.
From The Guardian • Feb. 20, 2013
Then he turned him rightwards and leftwards and sighted the gardens from afar and his eyes recognized the road whereby he had come.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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