southwards
IPA: sˈaʊθwɝdz
adverb
- In a southerly direction; towards the south.
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Examples of "southwards" in Sentences
- The beck runs across the common southwards.
- Geologically, the marsh is an incised meander in the creek, bending southwards.
- All the heads of the reeds are tilted southwards as if anticipating where change will eventually arise.
- He besought me, therefore, to leave my solitary isle, and to meet him at Perth, that we might proceed southwards together.
- Again frustrated, he turned southwards, meaning to cross above the Rosaires Cataract, which was without doubt impassable to steamers.
- I flourish the knife at them as they streak away southwards over Hadrian's Wall, over the chapel of St. Michael and All Angels and out of sight.
- A major cold front brought unusually low temperatures to many central southern US states early last week, as a chilled mass of air pushed southwards.
- We could not have been hunting for more than three hours, when glimpses of a deer trotting southwards through the thick shrubby timber caught my attention.
- Waves lose their translucence, become a million jagged snowcaps that bob and creak, weave and thrash on a suicide mission southwards, the North Fork of Long Island, a blue and brown dash in the distance.
- Other southern Avalon Irish initially entered through the port of St. John's, attracted by its increasing commercial activity and potential for employment, ultimately wending their way southwards from the town (mirroring a similar diaspora northwards into Conception Bay).
- The question of what we were to do in the immediate future was settled for us; for four days out of the six during which we were at One Ton the weather made travelling southwards, that is against the wind, either entirely impossible or such that the chance of seeing another party at any distance was nil.