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  • adjective Towards the ground.

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Examples

  • This produces bolts that hop groundward from one pocket to the next.

    Wired Top Stories 2009

  • Captain Dexter Ames, guiding the spaceship Discoverer out of gloomy canyon walls for a survey of the mystery planet Alpha Astra, wheeled eagerly when Doctor Phillips, his second in command, sputtered in amazement as he stared groundward through the powerful, squat telescope in the wing of the control cabin.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Dave Tackett 2008

  • Captain Dexter Ames, guiding the spaceship Discoverer out of gloomy canyon walls for a survey of the mystery planet Alpha Astra, wheeled eagerly when Doctor Phillips, his second in command, sputtered in amazement as he stared groundward through the powerful, squat telescope in the wing of the control cabin.

    Slave of the Lizard-Men. Dave Tackett 2008

  • The ember on the cigarette glowed one final time, then fell groundward.

    The Woman in the Fifth Douglas Kennedy 2007

  • He seeks landfall on the nearest planet where he finds a huge life-supporting shell surrounding it, a shell which has been damaged by alien attack, huge chunks of which have fallen groundward.

    Archive 2007-10-01 adamosf 2007

  • The ember on the cigarette glowed one final time, then fell groundward.

    The Woman in the Fifth Douglas Kennedy 2007

  • The ember on the cigarette glowed one final time, then fell groundward.

    The Woman in the Fifth Douglas Kennedy 2007

  • He seeks landfall on the nearest planet where he finds a huge life-supporting shell surrounding it, a shell which has been damaged by alien attack, huge chunks of which have fallen groundward.

    The New Space Opera, part 1 adamosf 2007

  • The ember on the cigarette glowed one final time, then fell groundward.

    The Woman in the Fifth Douglas Kennedy 2007

  • Not until his gaze turned groundward did the cowled figure see where she had flown.

    THE SUNDERING RICHARD A. KNAAK 2005

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