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shorewards

adverb as in ashore

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A curtain of fog had grown on the northern horizon and was drawing shorewards slowly but surely.

She turned her boat shorewards, and presently forced it beneath the bronze-leafed, drooping boughs of a sycamore.

While he sat thus looking out to sea, his attention was suddenly attracted shorewards.

The French ensign was flying at her peak, and a boat had left her side which was being rapidly pulled shorewards.

With these and some rags I covered my aching feet, and then, mounting on the rail, looked long and eagerly shorewards.

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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shorewards, such as: aground, beached, on dry land, on land, and on shore.

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

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