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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "seaward" in a sentence

    seaward example sentences

    seaward


    1. Just beyond the seaward edge of the camp, when the companions


    2. Father led our four remaining ships back to the seaward side where we sailed into a


    3. A few distant booms to seaward - the navy exchanging courtesies with Morro - were the only evidence of war


    4. Red, right returning: Reminderto navigators and helmsmen that red buoys are on the right hand of channel when returning to port from a seaward direction


    5. It was on the water-front, just seaward from the Lutheran church


    6. Assuming even a stable beach would have eroded somewhat over the centuries, they would want to appear to seaward of the present shore, and at a height sufficient to clear the past beach


    7. But a clean tanging wind bellied her silken sail, and as a wild swan cleaves the sky to her nest, she sped seaward, flames mounting higher and higher from her deck to lick at the mast and envelop the figure that lay lapped in scarlet on the shining pyre


    8. The Wastrel quivered and shook herself, and swung majestically seaward


    9. As best he could tell above the din, he was on the seaward side of the hull


    10. The Achilles Tang is often found near seaward reefs where the water flow is highly turbulent

    11. Origin / Habitat : Found in lagoons and seaward reefs and at depths of 26 to 115 feet (8 to 35


    12. They are often found in lagoons and near seaward reefs at various


    13. Origin / Habitat : Found in shallow lagoons and seaward reefs in the Indian Ocean, the Maldives


    14. and sponges and are found on the seaward side of coral reefs (re


    15. On the seaward side was a wall of windows; most of them open


    16. His steps finally led him seaward


    17. Coming up fast on the seaward side were ships


    18. The vacuum within the void is open on the seaward end and it sucks up massive amounts of seawater until there is enough water to provide a very thin coating to the sides of the tube formed by the energy beam


    19. The mountain formed the seaward boundary of a large island, and the narrow


    20. A glow leaps in the south beyond the seaward reaches of the river

    21. Below the window, on one of the bastioned traces on the seaward side of the hotel, waits the big 88


    22. From under the seaward gate, across the dusty, arid plain, interspersed with low bushes, he saw, more than a mile away, the ugly enormity of the Custom House, and the two or three other buildings which at that time constituted the seaport of Sulaco


    23. As the boy entertained himself along the breaking surf, plucking up half-buried shells to add to his collection, we stood seaward of the picket fence that separated yard grass from sand


    24. The seaward side would have an impressive view, though, so it could be a residence


    25. 'O Boromir! Beyond the gate the seaward road runs south,


    26. Fish from the reef on the seaward side


    27. As if in answer, the ironclad seaward fired a small gun and hoisted a string of flags


    28. They were all stalking seaward, as if to intercept the escape of the multitudinous vessels that were crowded between Foulness and the Naze


    29. He was so fascinated by this and by the creeping danger away to the left that he had no eyes for anything seaward


    30. It hit her larboard side and glanced off in an inky jet that rolled away to seaward, an unfolding torrent of Black Smoke, from which the ironclad drove clear

    31. But the ironclads to seaward were now quite close and standing in towards shore past the steamboat


    32. A pair of wild ducks with craning necks and whirring wings passed over us and disappeared like shadows, seaward


    33. Hiding his canoe, still afloat, among these thickets, with its prow seaward, he sat down in the stern, paddle low in hand; and when the ship was gliding by, like a flash he darted out; gained her side; with one backward dash of his foot capsized and sank his canoe; climbed up the chains; and throwing himself at full length upon the deck, grappled a ring-bolt there, and swore not to let it go, though hacked in pieces


    34. Roy turned away and stood for a few minutes looking out seaward


    35. A tired white butterfly settled for a moment on Ottilie’s head; then light-heartedly fluttered away seaward to its doom


    36. He struck out seaward, she followed


    37. She looked seaward through the slim, swaying eucalyptus trees


    38. She rode at an easy canter, breathing in the stinging salt air, looking out upon the water, where the dark “seaward line” swung with the swell a mile out in “the channel


    39. She saw a horse, with empty saddle, struggling, swimming, drifting out; saw a swash of black tumble in the twisting tides that sucked it seaward


    40. At the railway station their train was waiting—the locomotive hissing its impatience; they got into the car, for there was but one, and in a moment were flying seaward

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    Synonyms for "seaward"

    seaward offshore asea seawards

    "seaward" definitions

    the direction toward the sea


    (of winds) coming from the land


    directed or situated away from inland regions and toward the sea or coast


    in the direction of the sea