The milkwomen were trooping in cityward from the country, the fruit-sellers and hawkers trooping out Ridge-way as usual.
The picket was taken, the mutineers had fled cityward leaving four guns behind them.
So when the waning light closed each day's sale and the people drifted back cityward over the boat-bridge they were no longer silent.
He had her on the saddle before him and was off through the gardens cityward at a gallop.
In the glitter and glare of the mid-day sun the scene along the Bosphorus is lovely, yet its loveliness is plainly of the earth; but as we return cityward in the eventide the dusky shadows of the gloaming settle over everything.
I drove cityward through the rain, mechanically taking the familiar turns in the road, barely missing a man in a buggy at a four-corners.
Catching fire, Stephen ran with the crowd, and leaping on passing street car, was borne cityward with the drums of the coming hosts beating in his ears.
Far down the railroad embankment which passed the rear of the house, an engine puffed lazily cityward with a load of empty freight cars.
Even with all the later conveniences and improvements, the trend cityward still continues and may continue indefinitely in the future.
The great problem is, how can the trend citywardbe checked or reversed?
Their selections as a rule contain references and allusions without number to city life, and give a cityward bent; their connotation and attitude tend to direct the mind toward the city.
The Drift of Our Rural Population Cityward (an Editorial) 2.
But when he turned his face cityward it was with a conscious avoidance of the route which would lead him past the house with a climbing rose on one of its veranda pillars.
This is one of the chief causes of the cityward tendency.
The look cityward is not always caused by the incitement of an uneasy, a commercial, or an ignoble impulse.
Doctor Vaughan must be ready for the return train, which flew cityward soon, and Céline Leroque must not be too long absent.
For the second time, Madeline Payne is fleeing away from Oakley and all that it contains; fleeing cityward to begin, with the morrow, a new task, and a new chapter in her existence.
But Durkin paid little attention to these flying messages winging cityward from race-tracks so many miles away.
By this time they had threaded their way out of the tangled traffic of West street, and were rumbling cityward through the narrower streets of Greenwich village.
The craving for a more fully developed social life than many rural districts afford, has been an additional cause of the cityward drift.
When laborers who are no longer needed on the farms move cityward, the cityward drift may have the beneficial effect of removing such laborers to where they can find employment.
Illiteracy is still perilously high, Negro crime is becoming more serious, and the cityward tendency of the Negro is increasing his susceptibility to disease and vice.
Some reformers have sought to offset the cityward drift by an artificial "back to the land" movement.
Grave questions arise in connection with immigration, health, and thecityward drift.
In some respects the cityward drift is a desirable development.
The cityward migration of such persons may strengthen the urban population, but it weakens rural society and retards the progress of rural institutions.
In many sections the cityward drift has drained the able ministers to the city, leaving inferior men to carry on the work of the rural church.
In so far as thecityward drift brings to the city individuals unsuited to urban conditions, the movement away from the country may be undesirable.
In so far as the cityward drift is composed of such individuals, it may be a helpful movement, since individuals unsuited to rural life may find themselves adapted to some type of urban life.
This cityward drift has an important bearing upon the character of rural life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cityward" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
