How to Use onward in a Sentence

onward

1 of 2 adverb

• They have lived in that house from 1983 onward.
• But the cat was out of the bag, and the government moved onward.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2023
• Whipped onward by the wind, the flames reached the towns of Köyceğiz, İçmeler, and Osmaniye.
  — Katie Nadworny, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2022
• Even without that, though, the sense of Frank’s doom is baked in from that first melody onward.
  — Vulture, 16 Mar. 2023
• But the dispatcher overruled the crew and urged them onward.
  — Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News, 9 Mar. 2023
• LeVias lived by those words during his time at SMU and onward.
  — Dallas News, 3 Mar. 2023
• The heart has four valves, which help blood flow in the right direction within the heart and onward to other parts of the body.
  — Beth Krietsch, SELF, 12 Dec. 2022
• This is thanks to Jupiter, which dances into your career zone from June onward.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2024
• But Rolling Stone says the list is a snapshot as music marches onward.
  — Mark Kennedy, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2022
• Leading larvae will start to tap, and the rest of the pack will tap—and then everyone will trundle onward.
  — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2023
• For more concerts in Dallas-Fort Worth this month and onward, see our full listings.
  — Dallas News, 16 Feb. 2023
• While looking onward at the show, Halsey wrapped her arm around Jogia’s torso.
  — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 21 Sep. 2023
• So use the first few weeks of June to step outside of your comfort zone in order for life to feel like smooth sailing during the last week of the month and onward.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2023
• The van is believed to have remained parked in the driveway of Kingsbury's residence from 1:30 p.m. onward.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 6 Apr. 2023
• You're primed to move upward and onward as the Sun tours your 10th House of Career, fixing your gaze firmly on the finishing line.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2023
• The pair then traveled to Moscow together and will now proceed onward to Ukraine.
  — Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
• Kelton ultimately opted not to take the plea deal, and so the trial forged onward.
  — Alex Ross, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2024
• From July 15 onward, the road will nearly be back to regular use, with 30-minute delays.
  — Cari Spencer, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2023
• From Enlightened onward, the writer/creator has portrayed the sincere struggles of folks with whom most of us wouldn’t want to be friends.
  — Donna Bowman, Chron, 12 Dec. 2022
• The adventures of Iñaki and the live-action Straw Hats will continue onward!
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2023
• The answers may tell us a lot about who helms the Republican Party heading onward.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 4 Oct. 2022
• On eclipse day, the hotel will invite all guests to gather on its expansive front lawn from 2 p.m. onward to watch the celestial event — the eclipse will end over the area at about 4:40 p.m.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 25 Feb. 2024
• In some ways, the current crisis is a new version of what has been happening from the age of colonization onward.
  — Tatiana Schlossberg, The Atlantic, 28 Dec. 2022
• Who Needs a Flu Shot? From the age of 6 months onward, almost everyone should be getting an annual flu shot.
  — Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 14 Aug. 2023
• But as the conflict and the occupation trudged onward, the measure became routine.
  — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
• Let your creativity meld with that unique blend of influences to guide you onward.
  — Chicago Tribune, 23 Nov. 2022
• From about 1910 onward, singers received royalties based on record sales.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2023
• Taking more time to yourself is pertinent, and a habit that should continue onward for you.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Apr. 2023
• As summer pushes onward, July has been stacked with one premiere or party after the next (that is, until the SAG strike took hold).
  — Meg Donohue, ELLE, 28 July 2023
• Of the 47 members of the Gambia National Assembly present on Monday, 42 voted to send a bill to overturn the ban onward to a committee for consideration before a final vote.
  — Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024

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onward

2 of 2 adjective

• The government plan calls for all new cars sold in Japan from the mid-2030s onward to be electrified.
  — Peter Landers, WSJ, 25 Dec. 2020
• From age 50 or so onward, statistics show, the risk of death increases year by year.
  — Tom Siegfried, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
• The first flights for those who have been vetted for onward travel begin Monday.
  — Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2021
• So at least that bit of hockey nostalgia has not been lost to the onward march of technology.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Jan. 2021
• Many were taken to the airport in the port of Sihanoukville from which they were flown to the capital, Phnom Penh, to make onward connections to home.
  — Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2020
• The onward journey from the border depends largely on the connections refugees have in Europe.
  — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2022
• Their biggest hurdle is the State Department, which has not stamped their papers for the onward travel to the U.S. arranged by the department.
  — Jennifer Griffin, Fox News, 9 Feb. 2023
• With conducting always clear and to the point, Cohn gave the music room to stretch when needed, but onward impulse never slackened.
  — Dallas News, 26 Nov. 2022
• The city has also taken steps to reduce the influx, paying for onward tickets if migrants want to go elsewhere.
  — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
• Emirates serves three of the nations targeted by Trump, with onward connections to 11 U.S. cities.
  — Bloomberg News, The Denver Post, 30 Jan. 2017
• And that's how deal making went in Minnesota last year — onward but different.
  — Star Tribune, 7 Feb. 2021
• His basic locomotion is a kick-and-hop, and that reckless onward rush is an ideal match for the animation that drives the film along.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2022
• An onward weekend trip to Scotland, Northern Ireland, and even Denmark just got a whole lot cheaper.
  — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 May 2017
• Here, if your connection to your onward destination is more than six and less than 26 hours, Emirates will put you up in a hotel for the night as a mini-stopover.
  — John Walton, CNN, 12 May 2023
• This is a straight-ahead trio for the ages, fed by a tension between Mr. Jarrett’s resolute, lapidary touch and the collective’s shape-shifting, onward drive.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2018
• With the explosion of science fiction from the late ’30s onward, female robots and androids abounded.
  — Paul Di Filippo, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2020
• Passengers can fly in on Delta and connect to Silver to an onward destination.
  — David Lyons, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Nov. 2019
• In non-lockdown times, Whitehall pubs spill onto the streets from 6 p.m. onward -- and overflow even more with proximity to the Houses of Parliament.
  — Richard Galant, CNN, 6 Feb. 2022
• It is assumed that when used at the optimal concentration, the drug will prevent onward transmission of virus.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
• Turn it on, and then from that point onward Facebook will ask for a login code if there’s an attempt to log in to your account from an unrecognized device or browser.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 26 June 2022
• The Sphinx — like the Pennsylvania Avenue business district that surrounded it — fell into decline in the 1960s and onward as many patrons moved to the suburbs.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 13 Jan. 2022
• Before July 1, travelers could book their Ravn flights at AlaskaAir.com in conjunction with their onward flights.
  — Scott McMurren, Alaska Dispatch News, 14 July 2017
• European governments already are buying up at least 178 of them for onward transfer to Ukraine.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
• And onward flow plastics through time, territories, and tissues.
  — Rebecca Altman, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2022
• An increasing number are being transferred from one vessel to another in the Mediterranean for onward journeys to Asia.
  — Julian Lee, Bloomberg.com, 13 Feb. 2023
• Visitors need to fill out an online health declaration form and provide proof of onward travel.
  — Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes, 1 July 2020
• They were given water, pizza and granola bars, and some were provided tickets for onward travel.
  — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2022
• If they could be identified within that week and put into isolation with good infection control, there wouldn’t be onward spread.
  — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2020
• Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims make the journey each year, departing from various locations in Europe, following big yellow arrows through the north of Spain to the tomb of St. James, and some onward to the coast.
  — Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
• If tecovirimat can accelerate time to recovery, patients are more likely to isolate fully, leading to less onward spread of the virus.
  — Joseph Osmundson, STAT, 15 July 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024