groundward

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The sensors actually detect the neutrons created in the upper atmosphere when high-speed particles slam into the nuclei of atoms of gases, knocking them apart and sending the neutrons groundward.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 6, 2012

From a transmitting antenna on one wing, radio waves are bounced groundward, caught on the rebound by a receiving antenna on the other wing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their works drop groundward, but themselves, I know, Reach many a time a heaven that's shut to me, Enter and take their place there sure enough, Tho' they come back and cannot tell the world.

From Browning's Shorter Poems by Baker, Franklin T. (Franklin Thomas)

Smoke was pouring out of the chimney of a cabin and falling groundward, as it does in the Arctic during very cold weather.

From The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North by Wolfe, George Ellis

Janice, whose eyes had been dropped groundward during most of this colloquy, gave the pleader a come-and-go glance, then said breathlessly, “I—’T is—Wha—wha—What would you wish me to say?”

From Janice Meredith by Ford, Paul Leicester