sunwards
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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This trajectory took the spaceship into deep space before it arced back on a path that tracked behind Comet 67P as it swept sunwards.
From The Guardian
A pair of wild sheep on a ledge, a serpent or two, and an eagle soaring sunwards represented animate nature, otherwise the tremendous heights above, the awful depths below, the snowy mountains, and the valley 361 with its smile, were given over to solitude and silence, except for the dull roar of the torrent hurrying down to vivify the Khana Mirza plain.
From Project Gutenberg
The Eagle stooping from the sky Shall fold his wing and rest him here, And sunwards gaze with glowing eye From Buonaparte’s bier.
From Project Gutenberg
Would not his wings soon be paralysed, like a caged eagle's, so that he would try to soar sunwards in vain?'
From Project Gutenberg
They stood together in the blessed noon, They sang together through the length of days; Each loving face bent sunwards, like a moon New-lit with love and praise.”
From Project Gutenberg
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