Definitions

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  • adverb Towards a beach.

Etymologies

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beach +‎ -ward

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Examples

  • She stood on the sand and watched the waves barrel up and come snugging beachward.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • She stood on the sand and watched the waves barrel up and come snugging beachward.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • She stood on the sand and watched the waves barrel up and come snugging beachward.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • The pilot of a Navy patrol plane described the scene: The water never seemed clear of tiny men, their rifles over their heads, slowly wading beachward.

    The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945

  • The pilot of a Navy patrol plane described the scene: The water never seemed clear of tiny men, their rifles over their heads, slowly wading beachward.

    The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945

  • Presently, Dan Hicks, true to his promise to abandon the prize to Jack Flaherty, turned his megaphone beachward and shouted:

    Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918

  • From her window she presently saw Jennie, all rosy muslin and tossing curls, strolling beachward with Amiel.

    The Laying of the Monster 1910

  • Already there were a few people about, hurrying beachward; and when I reached the level of the firm, yellow sand, there were the red-trousered men of the bathing-machines, in full activity, getting their horses into the traces, while dogs raced wildly over sand-hillocks, and children played with bright, sea-washed shells the waves had flung them.

    The Chauffeur and the Chaperon Karl Anderson 1901

  • In the dune-hammock the black bear, crab-hungry, awakes from his December sleep and claws the palmetto fruit; the bay lynx steals beachward; a dozen little deaths hatch from the diamond-back, alive; and the mean gray fox uncurls and scratches ticks, grinning, red-gummed, at the moon.

    The Firing Line 1899

  • The Orlando airport isn’t too godawful far from the theme-parks and TPA is on the far west edge of Tampa, right next to the bay bridges that lead you beachward.

    Matthew Yglesias » Where to Build HSR 2010

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