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• They sent four batteries southward in an attempt to shore up the defenses around the depot.From the entry battery
• Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.From the entry pole
• Their efforts were directed mainly southward toward Cuba, Mexico, and the Central American republics.2012, William H. Brown, “Central America, Filibusters”, in Thomas M. Leonard, editor, Encyclopedia of U.S.–Latin American Relations…. From the entry filibuster
• With the exception of Tana, they all drain southward into the Gulf of Bothnia.2005, Mark Nuttall (editor), Encyclopedia of the Arctic I–III (A–Z), Routledge (Master e-book), page 1,164/1, “Lappin Lääni”. From the entry Kitinen
• Another force, also from the east, has by-passed Peiping and is striking southward.1948 December 15, “Peace Talks”, in Evening Examiner, volume XCVII, number 139, Petersborough, page 2, column 1. From the entry bypass
• They set out southward, skirting around the bison, tawny scouts wandering and studying the creatures, how they moved across the land.2011, James Howerton, The Cold Days, page 196. From the entry danken
• They were rolling southward on the International.1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New…. From the entry mott
• On the morning of 6 May Chiang and his armies withdrew southward toward T'ai-an, where a new Kuomintang regime in Shantung was established.1978, David D. Buck, Urban Change in China, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162. From the entry T'ai-an
• From Peking air routes extend northward to Ch’i-ch’i-ha-erh in Manchuria, southeastward to Shanghai, southward to the island of Hainan, and westward to K’a-shih in Sinkiang.1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, “Transportation”, in Christopher L. Salter, editor, Atlas of China [中國地圖集], McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC…. From the entry Ch'i-ch'i-ha-erh
• Zangī's southward advance threatened both the atabegate of Damascus and the kingdom of Jerusalem, and was met by an informal alliance between the two.1970, Bernard Lewis, The Cambridge History of Islam, Vol. 1A, Pt. II, §2: "Egypt and Syria", p. 200. From the entry atabegate
• A shoal, with general depths of less than 3 fathoms, extends about 1 ½ miles southward of the entire south shore of Lieh Hsü.1959, Sailing Directions for the Coast of China, 6th edition, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 191. From the entry Lieh Hsü
• The strong north winds pile the sands up into great barchannes or medanoes, crescentic sand dunes known locally as whaleheads, which are moving steadily southward.1912, William Bullock Clark, The Coastal Plain of North Carolina, page 32. From the entry whalehead
• Southward and in the very center of the plain is La Mesa, hidden in the mesquite and with splendid, typically dug, wells.1900, David Prescott Barrows, The ethno-botany of the Coahuilla Indians of Southern California. From the entry mesquite
• What bothered him more, he thought as he started Washoe southward, was Spikes's animosity, the bearded man's sudden violent reaction to his arrival at the gather.2014, Paul Lederer, Dark Angel Riding, Open Road Media, →ISBN. From the entry gather
• This is a little earlier than we would expect the exodus from the Sahara to have begun, but it is possible that dialecticalization began before the southward migration.1971, Carleton Taylor Hodge, Papers on the Manding, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry dialecticalization
• The Tu’pa (Toba) removed their capital southward to Lo-yang at the end of the 5th century, and Sui rulers resided there at intervals during the 6th century.1964, James Earle Spencer, “LO-YANG”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 14, →OCLC, page 447B, column 1. From the entry Lo-yang
• Also on the 4th, the left flank detachment (one infantry battalion) which had advanced southward from Lienchiang, occupied two islands in the mouth of Lien Chiang.1956, Army Operations in China, January 1944 - August 1945, Office of the Chief of Military History, page 179. From the entry Lienchiang
• The Pei Kiang flows southward across Kwangtung from the Nan Shan and at Samshui splits up into a ramifying system of channels which cover most of the Canton Delta.1934, George Babock Cressey, China's Geographic Foundations: A Survey of the Land and Its People, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., →OCLC…. From the entry Samshui
• Southward from Palmyrena stretches a vast expanse of desert, the true home of the nomad from the earliest times, a land that has never been suited to cultivation.1927, Geographical Review, volume 17, page 192. From the entry Palmyrena
• At this point, it branches off southward across the border into Hupeh, and following the left bank of the Han River, passes Laohokow to Fencheng, opposite Siangyang.1922, Sun Yat-sen, The International Development of China, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 137. From the entry Laohokow
• Vice-Admiral Kamimura reports that at dawn of the 14th instant, our squadron found, off Ulsan, the south-eastern coast of Corea, three ships of the Vladivostock squadron steaming southward.1904 August 17 [1904 August 13], “KAMIMURA'S REPORT.”, in Hongkong Daily Press, number 14,467, Hong Kong, sourced from Tokyo and Kamimura…. From the entry instant
• She missed the fish diet of her own country, and twice every summer she sent the boys to the river, twenty miles to the southward, to fish for channel cat.1913, Willa Cather, chapter 2, in O Pioneers!. From the entry cat

Meaning of southward

1. noun The direction or area lying to the south of a place.
2. adjective Situated or directed towards the south; moving or facing towards the south.
3. adverb Towards the south; in a southerly direction.

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How do you use southward in a sentence?

Southward is used as a noun, adjective and adverb. For example: “They sent four batteries southward in an attempt to shore up the defenses around the depot.”

What is a short sentence with southward?

“They were rolling southward on the International.”

What does southward mean?

Southward means the direction or area lying to the south of a place.