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How to use earthward in a sentence

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Shimoyo hurtled towards the mirror-like surface of the lake in an out-of-control earthward plunge.
A leaf slowly died, floating gently earthward from its perch on the redwood.
Sunny wings sprang open and bore him in a steep glide earthward, down past sheer cliffs spangled with bright alpine flowers and stunted scrub.
Sunlight that isn't absorbed or reflected by clouds as it plunges earthward will heat the surface.
What remains of the balloon after burst is dragged earthward by the descending near spacecraft.
With shrill twittering, the birds tumbled earthward, suddenly landing among the flint-stones.
The violent storm, with its 70-mile-per-hour winds, tore loose the airship's control cabin, which plummeted earthward like a boulder.
A Zero careened sharply, smoking, and its engine reduced to a mere whine as it plummeted earthward.
The ball headed earthward toward me and knocked my cap off back over my head with a quick knock to the bill.
The next, he's hurtling earthward from a precarious platform 50 meters above the ground.
Beads of sweat poured down King Louis' brow, indistinguishable from the rivers of rainwater that dripped earthward from his face.
It's like an electron avalanche, he says, that can flood up toward the ionosphere or slide earthward, depending on the electric field direction.
Yet as the last colored leaves, varnished with the first rains of winter, fall earthward, the deciduous trees bare their sinewy musculature for all the world to look upon.
These transient electric fields energize particles to high energy and propel them earthward.
The leading edge of this region reaches the Earth and presses the magnetopause earthward.
Columns of cooled air then sink earthward, striking the ground with strong downdrafts and horizontal winds.
Finally the bird plunges earthward with wings and tail closed.
The more water vapour present in air in which they formed before they can the air, the sooner the air can be cooled to fall earthward.
It was a long minute, filled with moaning and horror-struck, averted eyes, as the struggling figure plunged earthward.
Pretty soon this faint object started to fall earthward.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The earthward swoop of the upper boughs would hasten till the air was full of a whistling, whishing sound.
Can woman with her immortality be happy when its drawings are all earthward?
We had partly circled the Moon so as now to approach it from the earthward side.
The monk's watery eyes were rolled upward in pious disapproval, before he turned them earthward with a sigh of resignation.
It was no desire for a purer justice or wiser laws that hurried Ithuriel earthward.
Aiming it toward the stars, opposite earth, its reactive blasts shoved me earthward, thanks to Newton.
The opposite order of genius is, as we have previously called it, centripetal, gravitating earthward.
The illusion was that of plunging earthward at breakneck speed.
There is light, even from the earthward side, upon this dark river, love!
Gliders were casting off their toggle hooks and swooping earthward.
Instantly the heavy plane went into a tailspin and plunged earthward.
Kim quoted the proverb with a meditative cough, looking discreetly earthward.
The great trees bent in unison as though pressed earthward by a mighty hand.
In another moment a score of willing hands were tugging it earthward.
Surely it was in this way that Homer saw the plain of Troy, that Dante saw the abodes of the departed, that Milton saw the earthward flight of the Tempter.
Mercury, Vaulting Earthward, Makes Astronomical Jumps Skyward Unto Neptune.
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