shorewards
Example Sentences
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Our submarines used to patrol regularly along Piccadilly Circus to look out for and attack enemy ships, and at intervals went shorewards through the minefield in order to reconnoitre.
From The Harwich Naval Forces Their Part in the Great War by E. F. (Edward Frederick) Knight
Then Tom fixed his eye on some moving lights shorewards.
From The Boys of the Wireless by Frank V. Webster
Mattawa Tom leapt shorewards from moving log to log, but for a few moments Thurston, who scarcely noticed his absence, chopped on alone.
From Thurston of Orchard Valley by W. Herbert Dunton
The surf breaking shorewards was tremendously high; and meeting and struggling with it came a rush of the current from within.
From The Old Helmet, Volume II by Susan Warner
When she stood close to the waves all these little whirligigs came dancing shorewards, until they stopped only a few feet away and gazed at her curiously.
From The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall by Enys Tregarthen
