"inwards" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it as an adverb to mean "towards the inside or center of something". For example, "The wind was blowing inwards from the sea".
There was a massive hole in the side of the monocoque [chassis] where the left-front wheel had been forced inwards.
It is also to his benefit that Labour has once again turned inwards, focusing on who is nominating who for the Labour leadership.
Faucets cough and families turn inwards.
This incompetence reflects inwards also, Hilton suggests.
Hamas is trying to make up for lost income from the tunnels by putting an extra levy of 200 shekels ($54) per lorry on goods from Israel.Unable to get the siege fully lifted and nervous about grumblings that the movement is veering towards normalisation with Israel, Hamas may be turning intolerantly inwards again.
And a club that has spent far too much time looking inwards can turn to more important outward concerns: energy security, climate change, relations with Russia, its place in the world.Although the new text is now labelled a "reform treaty", it reprises most of the institutional changes put forward in the constitutional treaty in 2004.
As Mr O'Reilly kicks hard to open the heavy steel doors on arrival at the lighthouse, he notes that they swing inwards.
Vietnam had seemed to escape the crisis, with its economy still growing by 5% last year, simply by not rushing ahead with the reforms the West had been calling for.It was another sign of Vietnam's leadership looking increasingly inwards.
Instead of looking up and out, the public finds it easier to turn inwards, towards familiar rows about division and elite dysfunction.Since John F. Kennedy launched the race to the moon in 1961, presidents have invoked its spirit in other contexts.
More Jordanians have joined the ranks of Syria's assorted Sunni rebels than any other nationality; the late founder of ISIS's progenitor was a Jordanian, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.Some radical Islamists in Jordan are looking hopefully inwards.
The party seemed to be looking inwards rather than outwards.
