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
Try as he might, the plane was sagging groundward.
From Our Pilots in the Air by William Perry Brown
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 Paschal Beverly Randolph
Their works drop groundward, though their souls have glimpses of heaven that are denied to him.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
