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• As a result of inward investment, Eire enjoyed substantial economic growth.From the entry economic growth
• While not worth a mouth soaping, boredom can indicate the problem of turning inward.2014, Everyday Inspiration from God's Creation: A Daily Devotional, Barbour Publishing. From the entry mouth soaping
• Enlightening the eyes and a taste for hope, emotions are felt from an inward ghost.2013, Kenneth Palmer, Just Thoughts: Looking at Man's Whole Self, page 20. From the entry ghost
• Western national economies were beginning to turn inward, and endocolonization was launched at home.2009, Enda Duffy, The speed handbook: velocity, pleasure, modernism, Duke University Press Books, page 45. From the entry endocolonization
• Assation is a concoction of the inward moisture by heat; his opposite is semiustulation., Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.156. From the entry assation
• Fungi break down the wood inwards from lopping wounds, causing white or brown rot.1995, L Wessoly, Fracture diagnosis of trees. From the entry falseheart
• Do they bulge outwards, indicating barrel distortion, or inward (pincushion distortion)?1992 September, Herbert Keppler, “How to Test Your Lens”, in Popular Photography, volume 99, number 9, New York, N.Y.: Hachette Magazines…. From the entry pincushion
• You could write a whole essay about "looking inward," a sort of omphalocentric option.1987, Christopher Dickey, With the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua, →ISBN, page 211. From the entry omphalocentric
• It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition.1976, Helen Schucman, A Course in Miracles. From the entry outside
• A momentary coolness from the dark Flows inward on the tender-handed breeze.1949, Roy Earl Teele, Through a Glass Darkly: A Study of English Translations of Chinese Poetry, page 105. From the entry tender-handed
• A slight inward swinging of the arms is always necessary, and is slightly more emphasized with girls.1910, Documents of the School Committee of the City of Boston, page 56. From the entry emphasized
• Another possible physiological role for a hyperpolarization-activated inward current could be in the postburst hyperpolarization that is characteristic of parasol cells.2016 January 15, “Electrophysiological Evidence for Intrinsic Pacemaker Currents in Crayfish Parasol Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry postburst
• Letters are arranged concentrically, with answers reading on inward and outward paths and no clear demarcation between answers in either direction.2013 May 1, T. Campbell, On Crosswords: Thoughts, Studies, Facts and Snark About a 100-Year-Old Pastime, Morgan James Publishing, →ISBN…. From the entry Shortzian
• His right hand hangs pendent in front of his right knee, palm turned inward, fingers pointing toward the ground.2007, Philip L. Nicoloff, Sacred Koyasan, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 128. From the entry Ashuku Nyorai
• A typical stardock can hold about 16 boats with all of the boats' bows pointing inward and toward the center.2002, Capt. Rick Rhodes, Cruising Guide from Lake Michigan to Kentucky Lake: The Heartland Rivers Route. From the entry stardock
• It is an inward voyage, an odyssey into the unknown.1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 176. From the entry alap
• Each hounsis remained anonymous, focused inward and turned away from the audience toward the poteau mitan and the drums.1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 48. From the entry hounsi
• So they were entirely lacking in more inward perception.1984, “Chapter 4. The Senses”, in George F. Dole, transl., The Universal Human and Soul-Body Interaction, Paulist Press, translation of…. From the entry muci
• It seemed he had instead chosen to turn deeply inwards, towards the measures and pains of his wracked innermosts.1977, Michael Spence Lowdell Morris, The Spirit of Michael Webfoot, page 10. From the entry innermost
• Sitting alone at his window-seat, he was like an old boulevardier fallen on hard times, waspish, inward, slothful.1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 20. From the entry boulevardier
• It is symptomatic of inward alienation and militant Tamilism.1969, Govind Sadashiv Ghurye, Caste and Race in India, page 364. From the entry Tamilism
• The underframe also carries four bonded-rubber mountings, focused upwards and inwards towards the centre of gravity to suspend the body shell.1958 April, “Diesel Railbus for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 275. From the entry suspend
• The average normal field of vision extends outward 90°, upward 50°, downward 70°, and inward 60° from the point of fixation.1925 May, Nelson M. Black, “Compensation for Eye Injuries: Résumé of Work Done by Committee on Compensation for Ocular Injuries…. From the entry field of vision
• As nuclear fusion ignites at the centre of an infant star, the outer regions of the gas cloud that formed it are still falling inwards.2022, Charles Liu, The Cosmos Explained. From the entry infant star
• To improve the sound the acousticians, JaffeHolden, lined up flangelike panels along the front of the side walls to bounce sound inward.2009 January 29, Daniel J. Wakin, “Musicians Hear Heaven in Tully Hall’s New Sound”, in New York Times. From the entry flangelike
• Zoehrer have planted cedars and katsura trees, sweetshrub and shadbush, and turned their gaze inward, to the garden of their own making.2007 May 31, Anne Raver, “Reshaping Their Own Worldview”, in New York Times. From the entry katsura
• They said that crabs folded their gundies inwards when the crabs were in their holes and were therefore unable to bite anyone from that position.1998, Al Warren, My Native Cradle, page 124. From the entry gundy
• I gaze at them with affection and groan with inward pangs for having dared to poke their respectable plumpitudes in one of my pamphlets.1991, Tadeusz Konwicki, translated by Walter [Werner] Arndt, New World Avenue and Vicinity, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux…. From the entry plumpitude
• Its anterior section pulls the arm forward and rotates it inward while its posterior section pulls it backward and rotates it outward.1983, Fredric Sweney, The Art of Painting and Drawing Animals, page 37. From the entry deltoidus
• The toy includes a pullstring phonograph and a mechanism for preventing inward movement of the string until the predetermined operation is performed.1975, Gazette Du Bureau Des Brevets. From the entry pullstring
• It is an imaginative intuition, an intuition of ‘inward meaning’, and which only depends on external perception presupposingly, as does imagination itself.1937, Jacques Maritain, “Our Knowledge of Sensible Nature”, in Bernard Wall, Margot R. Adamson, transl., The Degrees of Knowledge, London…. From the entry presupposingly
• The early American inward flow wheels were, however, but a modified form of the central discharge wheel which, in turn, was evolved from the rouet.1922, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, page 1303. From the entry rouet
• With the pectoralis major cut off, the shoulders caved inward as if in a perpetual shrug, making it impossible to move the arm forward or sideways.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 65. From the entry pectoralis major
• The reversed view on the relation between connotation and notations starts with a connotative frame instead of a notative center, and it proceeds “down” or “inwards.”2010, Marc-Oliver Schuster, H.C. Artmann's Structuralist Imagination, page 270. From the entry notative
• We get tired of the slipping and sliding between raga and dvesha and we seek something more permanent - so instead of looking outward we begin to look inward.2009, Swami Ambikananda Saraswati, Healing Yoga, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry raga
• But while in Jézabel Jehu's inward calling triumphs forcefully over Jezebel's sensuous temptation, in his agonizingly torn condition the hero of Schelomo can offer only bitter resignation.2008, Klára Móricz, Jewish Identities: Nationalism, Racism, and Utopianism in Twentieth-Century Music, University of California Press…. From the entry Don Quixotesque
• Beginning to arise from this maldisposition was a public inclination to turn inward and a frustrated demand for stronger action abroad uncomplicated by the desires of America's allies.1967, George Edwin Mowry, The Urban Nation, 1920–1960, New York: Macmillan, page 195. From the entry maldisposition
• Sentiment, the inward working of emotion, does not issue in action, and so becomes mere sentimentality, to be lingered over, sipped, and degusted, for its own sake.1912, S.L. Wolff, The Greek Romances in Elizabethan Prose Fiction, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry degust

Meaning of inward

1. adjective Situated on the inside; that is within, inner; belonging to the inside.
2. adjective Not superficially obvious, inner, not expressed, especially relating to mental or spiritual faculties as opposed to external ones.
3. adjective Moving or tending toward the inside.

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How do you use inward in a sentence?

Inward is used as an adjective, adverb and noun. For example: “As a result of inward investment, Eire enjoyed substantial economic growth.”

What is a short sentence with inward?

“It is symptomatic of inward alienation and militant Tamilism.”

What does inward mean?

Inward means situated on the inside; that is within, inner; belonging to the inside.