Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb Toward a river.

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  • adjective near a river
  • adverb towards a river

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Examples

  • The Black Smoke drifted slowly riverward all through Monday morning, creeping nearer and nearer to us, driving at last along the roadway outside the house that hid us.

    The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

  • When Marc, huddled that day beneath a wood shack in the rain, saw the blue memories of a hundred ghosts drift off riverward to finally and vainly burst, he gathered up his innocence in all its fierceness and directed it toward the leaving of this town forever.

    Tours of the Black Clock Steve Erickson 2008

  • After the event, the poets and revelers shifted riverward and ended up on the Frying Pan, a boat-turned-bar on the Hudson.

    Feist and Sophie Calle: Another Collaboration? : Alexandra Marvar Marvar, Alexandra 2008

  • Meander riverward, and cross over to the South Bank complex.

    Culture On The Cheap 2007

  • The Black Smoke drifted slowly riverward all through Monday morning, creeping nearer and nearer to us, driving at last along the roadway outside the house that hid us.

    The War of The Worlds by H. G. Wells: Part 5 | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2005

  • The Black Smoke drifted slowly riverward all through

    The War of the Worlds Herbert George 2006

  • Some of these boats had been sunk by stones from the city's ballistas, which crashed through their decks and ripped out their planking, but the rest held their places and from their bows and mastheads, protected by mantlets, archers raked the riverward turrets.

    Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

  • Some of these boats had been sunk by stones from the city's ballistas, which crashed through their decks and ripped out their planking, but the rest held their places and from their bows and mast-heads, protected by mantlets, archers raked the riverward turrets.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Some of these boats had been sunk by stones from the city's ballistas, which crashed through their decks and ripped out their planking, but the rest held their places and from their bows and mast-heads, protected by mantlets, archers raked the riverward turrets.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Some of these boats had been sunk by stones from the city's ballistas, which crashed through their decks and ripped out their planking, but the rest held their places and from their bows and mast-heads, protected by mantlets, archers raked the riverward turrets.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

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