How to Use seaward in a Sentence

seaward

noun

• On the seaward side of the bridge, the canal widens to meet the harbor.
  — Justin Beal, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
• Mostly the water seeps out near the seaward toe of the wedge.
  — Robert Kunzig, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
• Reading the sound of the sea is no match for riding seaward on the waves.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2022
• Both of the sides were the same shape and size from the seaward view looking toward shore.
  — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 16 Feb. 2017
• The marshes are seaward, east of town, on land belonging to the Crown.
  — Nick Paumgarten, Bon Appetit, 31 Mar. 2017
• It is believed to be one of the world’s first seaward migrations.
  — Audrey McAvoy, The Seattle Times, 16 Aug. 2017
• Looking seaward, Meckel points to a line of oil platforms squatting on the horizon.
  — Wired, 29 July 2022
• Most of the foundation on the seaward facing side is entirely exposed to the surf, and the septic system appeared to be as well.
  — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
• The course fans seaward, with the two nines returning to the clubhouse, with flat fairways and fair greens rewarding accurate shots.
  — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 17 July 2017
• Its little Lower Town hides on the seaward side of the giant rock, tethered to the mainland only by a skinny spit of land that functions as a causeway.
  — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2024
• Antarctic ice shelves are the seaward extension of the world’s largest army of glaciers, and provide a stabilizing function.
  — Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2023
• However, that surge's size at New Orleans, more than 100 winding river miles up from the coast, would be reduced by the Big Muddy's push seaward.
  — Jeff Martin and Janet McConnaughey, chicagotribune.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• So even if wind blows water farther onto a beach, and foamy waves crash ashore, the average high tide can be, and often is, much farther seaward.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2021
• For example, in the Senate version, if there was more than one line of seaweed, oil, or fine shell debris, the recognizable high tide line would be the most seaward one.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
• Without a cohesive ice shelf holding it back, the ice sheet on land will accelerate its own seaward march, as well as that of its neighbors.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 6 Jan. 2022
• The deed requires that once the bluff recedes to within 10 feet of the primary structure, any portions of the building that are seaward of the 40-foot setback must be removed, according to the staff report.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2021
• At these times the reef survived by shifting its position seaward and finding deeper water there.
  — David Freeman /, NBC News, 31 May 2018
• Starting around 7,200 years ago, the river’s mouth began pressing seaward, dumping sediments faster than currents and tides could sweep them away.
  — Richard Campanella, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2018
• The rich blues and aqueous textures of the many watery scenes suggest an islander’s seaward outlook, while the fiery, liquid reds in other pictures evoke volcanoes.
  — Washington Post, 28 May 2021
• Anderson and his team found that the rifting of the island, which occurs as gravity drags the slope of Kilauea seaward, opened up fissures for magma to drain from the volcano’s reservoir and the lava lake above it.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 5 Dec. 2019
• The forecast track has shifted in the last few updates, jogging closer to the South Florida coast on Friday afternoon, then edging seaward late night.
  — Marc Freeman, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Aug. 2020
• But while the seaward beauty moment may have skewed summer-y on the whole, certain detailing conspired to make the vacation-minded moment a wintery one.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2019
• Its seaward snout remains pressed against the undersea mountain ridge, which crests roughly 400 meters underneath the ocean’s surface.
  — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2022
• One conclusion: masses of cold air that regularly move over the gulf in the winter can stir up waves and pressure differences that can help push the sediment seawards at rates of up to a meter per year.
  — Zahra Ahmad, Science | AAAS, 21 Aug. 2017
• The reef adjusted by migrating seaward which allowed the system to recover.
  — David Carrig, USA TODAY, 29 May 2018
• Though California generally owns the beach seaward from the mean high tide line, private owners can still claim beach property.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
• The place is a busy depot: Waves of chinook and coho salmon face upriver for their last brutal trip to spawn and die, meeting young salmon swimming seaward with new silver scales broadcasting a readiness for ocean life.
  — Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2021
• Looking seaward for inspiration can be tricky: Designers have gone the nautical route many times before.
  — Matthew Schneier, New York Times, 12 July 2017
• The 26-building complex is seaward of other Oceanside residential development, on the sand near the Oceanside harbor.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Nov. 2022
• Michaelis was purposeful about making that seaward wall all windows, giving every bedroom a Caribbean vista.
  — Ella Riley-Adams, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024