groundward
Example Sentences
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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
The denizens of the woods had taken shelter under the trees; in some of these the branches, snow-laden, had dropped groundward, forming quite a series of tents in the forest.
From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Stables, Gordon
The next minute the great aeroplane glided groundward and landed within a few feet of the crowd.
From The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest by Goldfrap, John Henry
Running down the trunk in the glaring spiral of a fresh scar two hand-breadths wide went the swath along which the bolt had plunged groundward.
From The Roof Tree by Conrey, Lee F.
