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Example sentences for "riverward"

Lexicographically close words:
riverence; riverine; riverman; rivermen; rivers; rivet; riveted; riveter; riveters; riveting
  1. The roar of the latter filled the air as we headed into a shallow, mud-bottomed lagoon widening riverward from the mouth of a small creek and beached the skiff under a yellowing fringe of willows.

  2. The savage wind-whipped white-caps that were buffeting me in mid-stream dissolved into foam-streaked ripples the moment they impinged upon the broadening oil-sleeked belt where the petroleum had seeped riverward from the sprayed beach.

  3. As there is still enough of a riverward earth-movement to necessitate a realignment of the rails on the south bank of the Cascades, it is probable that the latter is the correct theory.

  4. There were occasional cabins for several miles below the Landing, and eyes turned riverward in the storm might see it.

  5. With a giant's strength he sent the scow out into the bayou, and then back and forth he swung the long one-man sweep, twisting the craft riverward with the force of two pairs of arms instead of one.

  6. Griswold caught a passing glimpse of the red-faced man wiping his lips in the doorway of the saloon as the carriage bounded forward; and when the critical instant came, he was careful to fall out on the riverward side of the vehicle.

  7. The dragon may have teeth and claws, but it can neither see nor smell," he said, contemptuously, turning his steps riverward again.

  8. The men below waved their hands to each other in friendly fashion; Forbes jogged lazily up the canyon; Dines stamped out the branding fire and rode whistling on the riverward road.

  9. A fresh bunch of cattle topped a riverward ridge; the leaders raised their heads, snorted, turned and fled; Twilight leaped in pursuit.

  10. Chapter VIII Shortly after Captain Carroll started upon his search for his missing son, Randolph Anderson, sitting peacefully in his back office, by the riverward window, was rudely interrupted.

  11. He had also under the riverward window a little table equipped with the necessary paraphernalia for mounting them.

  12. One of the riverward bedrooms is the romantic centre of Westover.

  13. Upstairs, a central hallway runs through the house, double doors opening at both riverward and landward ends upon broad porticoes.

  14. From the riverward portico, we saw traces of an old garden whose memory is kept green by the straggling box that long ago bordered the fragrant flower-beds.

  15. It has both a landward and a riverward front, and both alike.

  16. The riverward portal of Westover stands tall, white, and finely typical of its day.


  17. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "riverward" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.