Explore Seaward through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like inshore or onshore. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Seaward meaning
Being in or facing towards the sea.
Using Seaward
- The main meaning on this page is: Being in or facing towards the sea.
- Useful related words include: inshore, onshore, offshore, coastal.
- In the example corpus, seaward often appears in combinations such as: the seaward, seaward side, seaward by.
Context around Seaward
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Seaward
- In this selection, "seaward" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, four, cascading, tracey, boundaries, production and facing stand out and add context to how "seaward" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 20 inches seaward and 820 feet seaward in some. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "seaward" sits close to words such as abaribe, abbasids and abstentions, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with seaward
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Winslet, Frears, Hobbs, Frank Rich and Tracey Seaward also executive produce. (11 words)
Like Barataria, Galveston was a seaward island that protected a large inland bay. (13 words)
This largest earthquake also moved the flank of Kilauea Volcano as much as 20 inches seaward. (16 words)
Number four, Seaward - the house that's for sale - can boast a prime position on the coast with the most astonishing views across the beach, harbour and village and across the rugged coastline of St Brides Bay towards Newgale. (39 words)
The team on board were examining sediment carried by melt water, and even to the untrained eye the glacial retreat is glaringly obvious, the “tide marks” of former ice levels striping the mountainsides, rivers of slurry cascading seaward. (38 words)
Mrs Ferguson, who was in an advanced state of pregnancy, was in her house with her husband and son when it broke loose and was swept seaward by the flood waters, both the husband and son being drowned. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Basically, LMEs cowl coastal areas starting from river basins and estuaries to the seaward boundaries of continental cabinets and outer margins of main ocean present methods.
Number four, Seaward - the house that's for sale - can boast a prime position on the coast with the most astonishing views across the beach, harbour and village and across the rugged coastline of St Brides Bay towards Newgale.
The team on board were examining sediment carried by melt water, and even to the untrained eye the glacial retreat is glaringly obvious, the “tide marks” of former ice levels striping the mountainsides, rivers of slurry cascading seaward.
Winslet, Frears, Hobbs, Frank Rich and Tracey Seaward also executive produce.
Crogga Limited is working with the DOI to cover what are described as a 'small number' of remaining issues in relation to varying the company's Seaward Production Innovative Licence.
The Earthquake Research Institute at the University of Tokyo found that the sandy coastline in western Japan shifted by up to 250 meters (820 feet) seaward in some places.
There aren't a host of seafood restaurants, unlike some other seaward facing resorts around the UK.
The public’s preferences over the seaward limits of the area which the new Harbour Authority will control, are also being sought.
This week, scaffold covered the seaward face of the Aotea Centre as well as the Aotea Square side of the building.
In the past, the reef shifted along the sea floor to deal with changes in its environment — either seaward or landward depending on whether the level of the ocean was rising or falling, the research team found.
Martin Seaward, representing the FBU, warned that criticism over the fire fighters' decision making should be allowed to be "exploited by those who created the danger".
Mrs Ferguson, who was in an advanced state of pregnancy, was in her house with her husband and son when it broke loose and was swept seaward by the flood waters, both the husband and son being drowned.
Noxious and very sensitive to uncomfortably increasing water temperature then like any other animal I would really expect quite a few of them to flee seaward.
This largest earthquake also moved the flank of Kilauea Volcano as much as 20 inches seaward.
A rich clay of great fertility, this mud overlays the white sands and clays formed from the erosion of the interior bedrock and carried seaward by the rivers of Guyana.
At the very bottom of the face, there may be a trough, and further seaward one or more long shore bars: slightly raised, underwater embankments formed where the waves first start to break.
But one reason the war bogged down into stalemate on the landward side was because ancient navies were ineffective at maintaining seaward blockades of enemy ports.
Compounding this error, the French only prepared their ships for battle on their starboard (seaward) sides, from which they expected the attack would have to come; their landward port sides were unprepared.
Its outer defenses consist of a huge curtain wall, convert tall and convert thick on its thinnest side, nearly convert thick on its seaward side.
Like Barataria, Galveston was a seaward island that protected a large inland bay.
Common combinations with seaward
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the seaward 8×
- seaward side 4×
- seaward by 2×