sunward
Americanadverb
adjective
adjective
adverb
Etymology
Origin of sunward
Example Sentences
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Gazing sunward without eye protection can permanently damage your eyes.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 3, 2024
VRO may permit astronomers to fulfil a long-time dream: find a comet long before it plunges sunward for the first time in its existence.
From National Geographic • Jan. 9, 2024
The first spacecraft to travel to a Lagrange point was NASA’s International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 mission, which launched in 1978 and went to L1, a point on the sunward side of Earth.
From Scientific American • Jan. 25, 2022
Turtles, snakes and voles stretch sunward after months of subterranean winter.
From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2018
He remembered he was young; the funeral curtains rose, and he saw his life shine and broaden and flow out majestically, like a river sunward.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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