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landwards

ADVERB
  1. toward land
    landward, miles of rough grass marshes melt into low uplands

How To Use landwards In A Sentence

  • Shields "to see some women," they would probably have gone down to their graves, seawards or landwards, under the pleasing illusion that the ganger was a man of like indulgent passions with themselves. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
  • But when Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita's forces came down from the Malay Peninsula instead, the guns were trained landwards to little avail.
  • His burning vessel was drifting landwards, neither the sole firefighting hose nor the bow anchor could be reached beyond the wall of flame, and there was insufficient time to unbolt the sea-cocks and scuttle the ship.
  • Visitors already on the rock were looking landwards at the strange spectacle of the bare stretch they had crossed on boats only moments ago.
  • Lemanus (Hythe), a spit of shingle, whose bay, north-east and south-west, forms an inner lagoon, bounded landwards by conspicuous and weather-tarnished red cliffs. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
  • Shall I sing how at the first Leto bare you to be the joy of men, as she rested against Mount Cynthus in that rocky isle, in sea-girt Delos — while on either hand a dark wave rolled on landwards driven by shrill winds — whence arising you rule over all mortal men? Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
  • The volcanoes burst to the surface landwards of the ocean trench, rising as they do from the depths of the subduction zone. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
  • Two days later it was holed and drifting landwards with oil gushing out of its tanks.
  • Shall I sing how at the first Leto bare you to be the joy of men, as she rested against Mount Cynthus in that rocky isle, in sea-girt Delos — while on either hand a dark wave rolled on landwards driven by shrill winds — whence arising you rule over all mortal men? Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
  • The cities of Padua and Verona were wiped from the face of the earth; and the last glories of Venice sank for ever beneath the sea as the waters of the Adriatic came - thundering landwards after the hammer-blow from space. Rendezvous With Rama
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