seawards
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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The writing is luminous, intense: at times, a wandering stream winding seawards; at others, precise and penetrating.
From Nature
From the hill above Polzeath, the Rev Steven Wild and I stare incredulously at a barefoot young man in a wet suit, his surfboard tucked under his arm, who is heading resolutely seawards.
From BBC
Once removed, it could take between 5,000 and 10,000 years for ice in the Wilkes Basin to empty as gravity pulled the ice seawards.
From Scientific American
It is a proud Yorkshire city that for centuries has turned its back on the rest of the county to look seawards.
From BBC
With the steady drone of diesel pumps a tiny percentage of what flows seawards is lifted into a canal that winds to the melon fields.
From BBC
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