Sandward
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Sandward is an adjective meaning Facing or moving toward the sand.
Meaning
Facing or moving toward the sand.
More Meanings
- Toward or onto the sand.
Example Sentences
The empty table, the glass turned down, were as lonesome as a house shuttered up for a season, as lonely and lonesome as a beached ship drawn sandward and trestled for repair.
The door dropped and the sergeant led his men forward in a stumbling rush through three feet of shallow and up the softness of the beach. They dropped on the sandward side of the logs.
In his mind’s eye he projected a picture of the coming daybreak, of a lone figure in her swim suit of flamingo, bravely defenseless in all this emptiness, with eyes cast sandward in a search for shells.
Now while this keen air renews, On my strength its aim pursues, From that old sand-swallowed Isle Meroe, doubled by the Nile, Balking before whose watery bar Vainly Simoom his dragon cheers, That sandward home from Senaar Back on his stormy rider rears;
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include frontside, sideswept, stoss, surfy, snowswept, switchfoot.
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