How to Use seaward in a Sentence

seaward

noun
  • On the seaward side of the bridge, the canal widens to meet the harbor.
    — Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
  • Mostly the water seeps out near the seaward toe of the wedge.
    — Robert Kunzig, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Reading the sound of the sea is no match for riding seaward on the waves.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The glaciers began flowing seaward up to eight times faster.
    — Evan Howell, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Both of the sides were the same shape and size from the seaward view looking toward shore.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 16 Feb. 2017
  • It is believed to be one of the world’s first seaward migrations.
    — Audrey McAvoy, The Seattle Times, 16 Aug. 2017
  • The marshes are seaward, east of town, on land belonging to the Crown.
    — Nick Paumgarten, Bon Appetit, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Looking seaward, Meckel points to a line of oil platforms squatting on the horizon.
    — Wired, 29 July 2022
  • Outlet glaciers behave like icy rivers, and the mountains around them act like the banks, narrowing and guiding flow as ice drains seaward.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 14 Jan. 2026
  • At these times the reef survived by shifting its position seaward and finding deeper water there.
    — David Freeman /, NBC News, 31 May 2018
  • So even if wind blows water farther onto a beach, and foamy waves crash ashore, the average high tide can be, and often is, much farther seaward.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Without a cohesive ice shelf holding it back, the ice sheet on land will accelerate its own seaward march, as well as that of its neighbors.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 6 Jan. 2022
  • The course fans seaward, with the two nines returning to the clubhouse, with flat fairways and fair greens rewarding accurate shots.
    — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 17 July 2017
  • Antarctic ice shelves are the seaward extension of the world’s largest army of glaciers, and provide a stabilizing function.
    — Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Most of the foundation on the seaward facing side is entirely exposed to the surf, and the septic system appeared to be as well.
    — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
  • Amid hilltop apple orchards, giant windmills spun, facing seaward.
    — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2016
  • The reef adjusted by migrating seaward which allowed the system to recover.
    — David Carrig, USA TODAY, 29 May 2018
  • Others are more erratic, creating fleeting bursts of seaward-flowing water on smooth, open beaches.
    — Chloe Williams, The Atlantic, 20 June 2022
  • China has 13 landward neighbors and seven seaward neighbors, and no shortage of disagreements with them.
    — S. C. M. Paine, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
  • After floating a vessel into a three-sided basin, the seaward end is closed and all the water removed, allowing the vessel to settle on a cradle.
    — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Michaelis was purposeful about making that seaward wall all windows, giving every bedroom a Caribbean vista.
    — Ella Riley-Adams, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The rich blues and aqueous textures of the many watery scenes suggest an islander’s seaward outlook, while the fiery, liquid reds in other pictures evoke volcanoes.
    — Washington Post, 28 May 2021
  • Though California generally owns the beach seaward from the mean high tide line, private owners can still claim beach property.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • For example, in the Senate version, if there was more than one line of seaweed, oil, or fine shell debris, the recognizable high tide line would be the most seaward one.
    — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
  • Its little Lower Town hides on the seaward side of the giant rock, tethered to the mainland only by a skinny spit of land that functions as a causeway.
    — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Starting around 7,200 years ago, the river’s mouth began pressing seaward, dumping sediments faster than currents and tides could sweep them away.
    — Richard Campanella, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Its seaward snout remains pressed against the undersea mountain ridge, which crests roughly 400 meters underneath the ocean’s surface.
    — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Men gathered on the beach, perhaps trying to arrange a seaward evacuation, while women and children mostly took cover in stone boat chambers named fornici.
    — National Geographic, 23 Jan. 2020
  • The forecast track has shifted in the last few updates, jogging closer to the South Florida coast on Friday afternoon, then edging seaward late night.
    — Marc Freeman, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Aug. 2020
  • Anderson and his team found that the rifting of the island, which occurs as gravity drags the slope of Kilauea seaward, opened up fissures for magma to drain from the volcano’s reservoir and the lava lake above it.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 5 Dec. 2019

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