[
UK
/ʃˈɔːwɔːd/
]
[ US /ˈʃɔɹwɝd/ ]
[ US /ˈʃɔɹwɝd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
(of winds) coming from the sea toward the land
an inshore breeze
an onshore gale
How To Use shoreward In A Sentence
- This was the battle -- to win seaward against the Creep of the shoreward hastening sea. CHAPTER VI
- This was the battle -- to win seaward against the Creep of the shoreward hastening sea. CHAPTER VI
- Hilo-wards, and for several months, spreading through the dense forests which belt the mountain, crept slowly shorewards, threatening this beautiful portion of Hawaii with the fate of the The Hawaiian Archipelago
- I avail to stop it nor turn it shorewards, till it stopped with me at a great and goodly city, grandly edified and containing much people. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Once shorewards of the breakers cetaceans and odontocetes could interpret relative quite as deeper water, and swim shorewards to their sad suicides.
- One seemed to see as well as feel this heat, and Griffiths sought vain relief by gazing shoreward. A SON OF THE SUN
- The sea itself rolled shorewards more silently and lazily than usual. The Hawaiian Archipelago
- When you see the wave coming that you want to ride in, you turn tail to it and paddle shoreward with all your strength, using what is called the windmill stroke. Jack London:Surfing in Hawaii
- Slowly, as if he were marching through a river of syrup, he plodded shoreward, emerged on the muddy bank, and dropped down face first. VALENTINE PONTIFEX
- When the wash receded they followed it with an incredibly rapid twinkling of little legs; and when again the wave rushed, shoreward, _scuttle, scuttle, scuttle_ went they, keeping always just at the edge of the water. The Gray Dawn