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  • adverb oceanward
  • adjective oceanward

Etymologies

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ocean +‎ -wards

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Examples

  • After so many years of effort to find one’s drift, the drift found the seeker, and slowly swept him forward and back, with a steady progress oceanwards.

    The Abyss of Ignorance (1902) 1918

  • Their eyes were looking oceanwards, following a ship nearing the misty horizon.

    The Bird of Love 1910

  • He stepped off the veranda, crossed the little lawn to the village street, and began to saunter nonchalantly and indifferently oceanwards.

    The Miracle Man 1909

  • Young and old, when the "emigration fever" is rife, the tides of people may be seen flowing oceanwards.

    The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Robert Lloyd Praeger 1909

  • By degrees the City was passed; the bay narrowed oceanwards little by little.

    A Man's Woman Frank Norris 1886

  • On the western side of the bluff there is a narrow strip of littoral, less than half a mile in width, and thickly clothed with a grove of betel nut, through which the clear waters of a mountain stream flow swiftly out oceanwards across a rocky bar.

    A Memory Of The Southern Seas 1904 Louis Becke 1884

  • Day broke with a leaden sky, against which the angry, white-crested waves raced their mad career over the reefs of Cape Hatteras, that threw its headland oceanwards but eight miles distant.

    The Civil War in America 1862

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