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Meanings of sunward in English

Opposite of widdershins.

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Usage of sunward in English
1
They're all moving sunward pretty fast, but they're not accelerating or evading.
Caliban's War
2
It was still far beyond Mars, sweeping sunward along its immensely elongated orbit.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
3
Suddenly something darted by me flying sunward; then another and another.
Other Worlds / Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in t...
4
These foothills were, in fact, enormous glaciers thrust out toward the sunward hemisphere.
A Columbus of Space
5
I am behind a rock forty yards to sunward of the second crater.
Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet
6
The squad ship continued sunward while Patrolman Willis continued his observations.
A Matter of Importance
7
Still heading sunward, but deflecting away from the Earth vector it was on.
Leviathan Wakes
8
Ouster angels float in the sunlight beyond the leaf barrier sunward.
The Hyperion Cantos
9
This will cause the temperature of its sunward-facing side to soar to 600°C.
The Guardian
10
In all our journeys, skyward and sunward, we never reach the End of All.
The Warriors
11
And through the misty air Passed like the mournful cry Of sunward sailing cranes.
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
12
Now the world rights itself again, and once more we are all bounding sunward.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 / A Maga...
13
The oxygen-planet to sunward showed again as a lighted crescent.
The Aliens
14
The two ships floated sunward together, neither approaching nor retreating.
The Aliens
15
It was thousands of miles away, over the great round of the sunward-turning earth!
Donal Grant
16
So they turned their search sunward, and presently were rewarded.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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