seaward
IPA: sˈiwɝd
noun
- A surname.
adjective
- Being in or facing towards the sea, as opposed to the land.
adverb
- In the direction of the sea, toward the sea.
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Examples of "seaward" in Sentences
- (He turns to the harbor and calls seaward) Ho there, boatman!
- This was the battle -- to win seaward against the Creep of the shoreward hastening sea.
- Right before this towne from the seaward is a banke of mouing sand, which gathereth and increaseth with the
- That very accessibility from seaward, which is her weak point in war time, is her strength in time of peace.
- They were close enough to have heard, but ignored him they turned away and lay on their boards, stroking seaward.
- To the seaward, that is from the smaller harbour westwards, Sebastopol and its approaches were thoroughly fortified.
- 'Thereupon, so soon as ocean may be trusted, and the winds leave the seas in quiet, and the soft whispering south wind calls seaward, my comrades launch their ships and crowd the shores.
- The sea became covered in the masses of snow blown seaward from the land by the gale; then the violence of the gale abated so that on February as we left our companions on the bleak shores of Cape Royds and steered for sunny New Zealand.
- Right before this towne from the seaward is a banke of mouing sand, which gathereth and increaseth with the Western winds, in such sort, that, according to an olde prophesie among them, this banke is like to swallow vp and ouerwhelme the towne: for euery yere it increaseth and eateth vp many gardens, although they vse all policy to diminish the same, and to make it firme ground.
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