seaward

Example Sentences

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Recognizing that geography still matters, they extended their defensive periphery seaward, initially to the first island chain, from Japan to the South China Sea, and then to the second chain and beyond.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

As much as the major wildfires were spreading seaward — as is typical during Santa Anas — the blazes were growing laterally, he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2025

The Brunt experienced a rapid acceleration in its seaward movement after the loss of A74 and A81.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2024

The little cottage is safer, as it happens, than the architectural marvels perched on the rocky seaward verges of Big Sur, one of which took a 50-foot wave straight through its plate glass window.

From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2023

There were but few lights in sight at sea, for even the coasting steamers, which usually “hug” the shore so closely, kept well to seaward, and but few fishing-boats were in sight.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker