Sentence examples for landward from inspiring English sources
adjective
In the direction towards land, as opposed to in the direction out to sea.
- The landward side of the fort faced more dangerous land guns than the otherwise which only faced what could be put on a ship.
It did: today's metro Mumbai, bursting over its landward boundary, holds 18m.
Each link was stoutly resisted by persons who wished to leave the city unchanged, and they succeeded in forcing wheeled vehicles to be garaged at the landward edge of the island.
The three landward sides of the square are surrounded by uniform buildings dating from the 18th century.
The territory of states includes internal waters (i.e., harbours, lakes, and rivers that are on the landward side of the baselines from which the territorial sea and other maritime zones are measured), over which the state has full and complete sovereignty and exclusive jurisdiction.
On the landward side it is surrounded by the much larger (and administratively separate) district municipality of North Vancouver, which extends eastward along the inlet to Indian Arm (the inlet's northward branch) and borders the district municipality of West Vancouver to the west.
Thus, Andean-type belts have a narrow belt of volcanoes and often a fold and thrust belt on their landward margin.
Volcanoes typically lie 150 to 200 kilometres landward of deep-sea trenches, such as those that border much of the Pacific Basin.
Fold and thrust belts can also be associated with active continental margins or Andean-type margins, where oceanic lithosphere is subducted into the asthenosphere but where crustal shortening occurs landward of the volcanic arc on the overriding continental plate.
The name of the Queenston Delta is derived from the reddish shale formation, the Queenston Shale, that accumulated over the landward front of the advancing delta.
Hamaini's company, Kite Morocco, now offers kitesurf and windsurf courses including equipment rental and accommodation in this remote location: learn first on the landward-facing lagoon, then venture across to the ocean side for the real deal.
"Many archaeologists don't make enough to pay taxes," said Doug Rocks-Macqueen, a consultant for Landward Research Ltd. "The average archaeologist only lasts about five years [after training] before they get a permanent job – which is hard to do – or leave the profession".
