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View definitions for onwards

onwards

adverb as in onward/onwards

adverb as in onward

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A thread of anxiety started its twist into my stomach as the bus wound ever onwards into the dense blackness of night.

But this will not mean that we drive ever onwards towards greater sexual freedom--rather, it will mean quite the reverse.

From the 80s onwards, after manufacturing collapsed, the inner cities were awash with hard drugs.

She soon graduated to singing, songwriting and after a couple of years she moved onwards and upwards.

She would not see the offered hand, but swept onwards with a cold curtsey, stopping just a moment to speak to her husband.

From this time onwards Aragon became the base from which was organised the conquest of Catalonia and Valencia.

From Castiglione onwards the soldiers of Augereau's division would do anything for their commander.

Bigyns, Beguines; these were members of certain lay sisterhoods in the Low Countries, from the twelfth century onwards.

In 207 onwards, Severus built a new wall along the line of Hadrian's rampart.

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On this page you'll find 48 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to onwards, such as: alee, along, forth, forward, in front, and in front of.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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