inward

Example Sentences

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Here, she turns that same archival rigor inward on her own family’s immigrant story, as unsparing as it is tender.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

You want the straight side of each triangle to face outward while both triangles’ angled sides face inward toward each other.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026

Coltrane’s account of her inward quest is simultaneously proto-Afrofuturist, transcendental and totally human.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

This suggests they likely formed farther out and later migrated inward, since forming near the boundary would be extremely difficult.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026

Like pilgrims in a fable swallowed up and lost among the inward parts of some granitic beast.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy