Definitions
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- adverb Towards the sea.
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- adverb in the direction of the sea
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Examples
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And the French company is playing into the trend for oil companies to look seawards for more oil.
Bon Voyage for Technip and Global Industries Andrew Peaple 2011
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Here, in the place I sheltered from the shower, a cliff face angled away from the prevailing wind falls seawards in a series of small slopes and steep drops broken up by ledges and rocks.
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Realising disaster could be imminent, the captain used anchors to turn the vessel, in what must have been a very short distance, and came to a stop off Punta Gabbianara with the bows pointing back towards the port and the gash facing seawards.
Cruise ship scene marked by modern totem of disaster in medieval harbour 2012
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All day the trawler lay and rolled a mile from the battleship, while a protective screen of three destroyers kept guard to seawards on the alert for submarines.
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As proposed by Halim and Kvalvagnaes (1980), the boundaries of Ujung Kulon have been extended seawards to include areas of ocean and coral reef.
Ujung Kulon National Park and Krakatau Nature Reserve, Indonesia 2009
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Now the King of the city was a Prince of pith and puissance named Dirbas, the Lion; and he chanced at that moment to be seated, with his son, at a window in the royal palace giving upon the sea; and happening to look out seawards, they saw the fishing-boat make the land.
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Hearing this they hastened the more seawards till they left them in the distance and fared on, trusting in Allah
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When the voyagers saw this, they turned and fled seawards; but the cannibals pursued them and caught and ate three of the slaves, leaving only three slaves who with
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Coastal systems refer to the interface between ocean and land, extending seawards to about the middle of the continental shelf and inland to include all areas strongly influenced by proximity to the ocean.
Ecosystems and Human Well-being Synthesis~ Key Questions in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2008
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It is further recommended that the intensive use zone be extended seawards by 1,000m to allow passage and anchorage of boats.
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