groundward

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The sensors actually detect the neutrons created in the upper atmosphere when high-speed particles slam into the nuclei of atoms of gases, knocking them apart and sending the neutrons groundward.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 6, 2012

From a transmitting antenna on one wing, radio waves are bounced groundward, caught on the rebound by a receiving antenna on the other wing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Try as he might, the plane was sagging groundward.

From Our Pilots in the Air by Brown, William Perry

Not being able to think of any nobler achievements, I cast my eyes groundward, and, on again raising them, I beheld, across the clear space on the door, the single word, 'Try!'

From Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story by Randolph, Paschal Beverly

So swift was the pace now that within a few minutes a wide clearing loomed ahead and her captor began to slip groundward.

From The Return of Tharn by Browne, Howard