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Sentence Examples
This may be an important mechanism promoting the shoreward migration of larval invertebrates and fish.
The low-density surface water moved shoreward over the upwelled water, forming a convergence zone at the front.
Movement in any other direction than shoreward in circumstances of disorientation would take the animal away from food and mates, with maladaptive consequences.
When waves are breaking on a line more or less parallel to the beach, they carry considerable water shoreward.
Thus wave energy moves the water shoreward until it reaches an excurrent drainage channel slightly deeper than the culture channels, and water circulation is ensured.
Examples from Classical Literature
Turning shoreward she dived and resurfaced approximately 300 feet in the opposite direction from which she was being pursued.
About noon I sighted a big splash a mile off shoreward, and we headed that way.
I tried for a solid hour, and not one wave could I persuade to boost me shoreward.
He could see that the gun had been fired from the vessel's shoreward battery.
It's blood-soaked in the middle, and there are blood-stains all along the shoreward half.
Busy with the camels, Ali had time for only the briefest of shoreward glances.
Why, there's not a woman From the shoreward demes arrived, not one from Salamis.
The only alternative was to sit astride one of them and slither along shoreward, a few inches at a time.
Its only entrance is at the back, and on the shoreward side.
A dozen came on the after deck with bows, and lined the shoreward gunwale.
Now I called to Thormod, and his voice answered me from shoreward.
Not long afterward we answered a shoreward hail, and two Whitehall boats, each pulled by three pairs of oars, darted up to us.
As a measure of economy, however, I put some of the heavier baggage on the shoreward parts, to go as slow freight.
This he saw, and an eighth man who crouched in the bow and gazed shoreward.
He parted the shoreward bushes and revealed to me three men lying there.
And, motioning me to follow, set off wading shoreward without paying further attention to him.
Then I skirted among the woods until I had regained the rear, or shoreward side, of the stockade, and was soon warmly welcomed by the faithful party.
Anne had her little domain in the speckless order one would expect of anyone brought up by Marilla Cuthbert, and felt that she could gad shoreward with a clear conscience.
