shorewards
Example Sentences
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All around were pieces of timber of all sizes and shapes, slowly drifting shorewards with the flood tide.
From The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
This time the relief was late and the M.L. steamed angrily up and down, with all eyes strained shorewards.
From Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships by Charles W. (Charles William) Domville-Fife
The second stage was reached when, instead of trying to escape shorewards, where there were tufts of coarse grass upon a sandy bank, he turned and faced the thing.
From The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath by Algernon Blackwood
The next moment its crew had cast off, and its head had been swung round shorewards in response to the race of its powerful motor.
From The Men Who Wrought by Ridgwell Cullum
The Moors left the yacht; the felucca sailed 96 away; not shorewards, as Tom had expected, but out to sea.
From King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane by Herbert Strang
