How to Use onward in a Sentence

onward

1 of 2 adverb
  • They have lived in that house from 1983 onward.
  • From then onward, there was no looking back.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
  • But, over and over, love propelled him onward.
    — Sean Williams, Outside, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Burke vowed to add a full-scale women’s team from that day onward.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 6 May 2026
  • The boat is being rowed onward.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2025
  • But the cat was out of the bag, and the government moved onward.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2023
  • This is okay to do, even though some of you may want to hit the ground running and race onward.
    — Kyle Thomas, PEOPLE, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Senegal scored four unanswered goals from that point onward.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 27 June 2026
  • They were stopped once and asked to open the car and show press cards before being waved onward.
    — ABC News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • They were stopped once and asked to open the car doors and show press cards before being waved onward.
    — Bassem Mroue, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2026
  • On that note, scroll onward to see how the fashion set will be wearing their cords in the new year.
    — Kelsey Stewart, Glamour, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The universe starts right over your head and continues onward for a very long way.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 15 May 2026
  • Even without that, though, the sense of Frank’s doom is baked in from that first melody onward.
    — Vulture, 16 Mar. 2023
  • If yes, scroll onward for eight bomber jacket outfits to help get your wheels turning.
    — Kelsey Stewart, Glamour, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Note that this will continue onward into the months ahead.
    — Kyle Thomas, PEOPLE, 7 Dec. 2025
  • To say much more would be to ruin the wild twists and turns that unfold as the night marches onward.
    — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Jan. 2026
  • But the second half — oh, that second half, starting from the grenade fight onward, is pure bliss.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
  • From that debut onward, the lineup never changed.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 10 Mar. 2026
  • This is thanks to Jupiter, which dances into your career zone from June onward.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Inevitably, our discussions turn to what else might draw us onward, if not the white picket fence.
    — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • From the ninth century onward, Venice was one of the world’s great merchant trade cities.
    — Layne Randolph, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Hutson followed Demidov’s progress in his draft year from that point onward.
    — Arpon Basu, New York Times, 15 May 2026
  • Still, there are plans to send people back to the Moon, later to Mars, and then onward.
    — New Atlas, 15 Feb. 2026
  • LeVias lived by those words during his time at SMU and onward.
    — Dallas News, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The heart has four valves, which help blood flow in the right direction within the heart and onward to other parts of the body.
    — Beth Krietsch, SELF, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Let your creativity meld with that unique blend of influences to guide you onward.
    — Chicago Tribune, 23 Nov. 2022
  • But Rolling Stone says the list is a snapshot as music marches onward.
    — Mark Kennedy, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Leading larvae will start to tap, and the rest of the pack will tap—and then everyone will trundle onward.
    — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Hard struggled fitfully onward, at times dropping her head in her hands in despair.
    — Sally H. Jacobs, Town & Country, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Stoner was encouraged to press onward in their career.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2025

onward

2 of 2 adjective
  • The first flights for those who have been vetted for onward travel begin Monday.
    — Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2021
  • So at least that bit of hockey nostalgia has not been lost to the onward march of technology.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Jan. 2021
  • From age 50 or so onward, statistics show, the risk of death increases year by year.
    — Tom Siegfried, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
  • As the draft wound down in 1972, onward Winslow went in life, though not always unarmed.
    — Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2026
  • And that's how deal making went in Minnesota last year — onward but different.
    — Star Tribune, 7 Feb. 2021
  • The city has also taken steps to reduce the influx, paying for onward tickets if migrants want to go elsewhere.
    — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
  • And onward flow plastics through time, territories, and tissues.
    — Rebecca Altman, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Visitors need to fill out an online health declaration form and provide proof of onward travel.
    — Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes, 1 July 2020
  • They were given water, pizza and granola bars, and some were provided tickets for onward travel.
    — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The government plan calls for all new cars sold in Japan from the mid-2030s onward to be electrified.
    — Peter Landers, WSJ, 25 Dec. 2020
  • The onward journey from the border depends largely on the connections refugees have in Europe.
    — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2022
  • His basic locomotion is a kick-and-hop, and that reckless onward rush is an ideal match for the animation that drives the film along.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2022
  • It is assumed that when used at the optimal concentration, the drug will prevent onward transmission of virus.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
  • If they could be identified within that week and put into isolation with good infection control, there wouldn’t be onward spread.
    — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2020
  • With conducting always clear and to the point, Cohn gave the music room to stretch when needed, but onward impulse never slackened.
    — Dallas News, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Our understanding right now is that the morale has improved because the ship is moving and plans are being made to get them safely to shore and for their onward journey home.
    — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 7 May 2026
  • Passengers can fly in on Delta and connect to Silver to an onward destination.
    — David Lyons, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Transit passengers will not be accepted unless it has been confirmed that their onward flight is operating.
    — Hana Al-Khodairi, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Mar. 2026
  • As this year’s awards season has marched mercilessly onward, one of the biggest questions hinged on which film would walk away with Best Picture.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 15 Mar. 2026
  • With the explosion of science fiction from the late ’30s onward, female robots and androids abounded.
    — Paul Di Filippo, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2020
  • Turn it on, and then from that point onward Facebook will ask for a login code if there’s an attempt to log in to your account from an unrecognized device or browser.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 26 June 2022
  • European governments already are buying up at least 178 of them for onward transfer to Ukraine.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
  • If tecovirimat can accelerate time to recovery, patients are more likely to isolate fully, leading to less onward spread of the virus.
    — Joseph Osmundson, STAT, 15 July 2022
  • An onward weekend trip to Scotland, Northern Ireland, and even Denmark just got a whole lot cheaper.
    — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 May 2017
  • Makeshift camps have been established and train stations became staging posts to find temporary accommodation for refugees and help with their onward journeys.
    — Louis Witter, The New York Review of Books, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Here, if your connection to your onward destination is more than six and less than 26 hours, Emirates will put you up in a hotel for the night as a mini-stopover.
    — John Walton, CNN, 12 May 2023
  • An increasing number are being transferred from one vessel to another in the Mediterranean for onward journeys to Asia.
    — Julian Lee, Bloomberg.com, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Many were taken to the airport in the port of Sihanoukville from which they were flown to the capital, Phnom Penh, to make onward connections to home.
    — Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2020
  • Of course the onward marching cultural rot of capitalism and imperialism have drained the magic from the world and left people stranded in their inexorable wakes.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The rest of the team departed Sydney Tuesday for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, before an onward journey to Iran.
    — Christina MacFarlane, CNN Money, 10 Mar. 2026

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