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• A wave-built platform originates by deposition at the seaward margin of the wave-cut platform.2019, Reed Wicander, James S. Monroe, Geology: Earth in Perspective, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 319. From the entry platform
• Sitting unpenguinlike, with heads up high like ducks, they begin uttering honking calls as they paddle seaward.2011, Carl Safina, The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN. From the entry unpenguinlike
• Opportunities to seaward, however risky, are more inviting than those on land.2001, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Civilizations, Pan Books, →ISBN, page 409. From the entry Fukien
• Beimen beach is just north of Bo'ao port, seaward of the village.1988, Susana Salas Frazier; John G. Frazier, et al., “Sea Turtles in Fujian and Guangdong Provinces”, in 两栖爬行行动学报 [Acta Herpetologica…. From the entry Bo'ao
• In the absence of a route leading from seaward , the conventional direction of buoyage generally follows a clockwise direction around land masses.2012, Light List: Pacific Coast and Pacific islands. From the entry buoyage
• Alternatively, the islandward dip may result from some at present unexplained anomaly, and may have formed recently along the present seaward shore.1962 February 28, Marie-Hélène Sachet, “Geography and land ecology of Clipperton Island”, in Atoll Research Bulletin, number 86, page 97. From the entry islandward
• Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock.1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 1, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN. From the entry unquiet
• The concentric features outside the chasma are attributed to normal faulting associated with lithospheric flexure similar to that occurring seaward of subduction zones on the Earth.2014, Donald L[awson] Turcotte, Gerald Schubert, Geodynamics, 3rd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 83. From the entry chasma
• Finding that it had shifted, we turned to come back and found that the ide had carried us into a sea puss, and that we were being swept seaward.1911 October 25, Millicent F. Eady and Calvin T. Allison, a letter published in 1913 in the Annual Report of the United States Life-Saving…. From the entry sea puss

Meaning of seaward

1. adjective Being in or facing towards the sea.
2. adverb In the direction of the sea, toward the sea.

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How do you use seaward in a sentence?

Seaward is used as an adjective and adverb. For example: “The landward side of the fort faced more dangerous guns than the seaward side, which only faced what could be put on a ship.”

What is a short sentence with seaward?

“Beimen beach is just north of Bo'ao port, seaward of the village.”

What does seaward mean?

Seaward means being in or facing towards the sea.