southward
向南,南向,南下,向南走
Definitions
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- : moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the south.
- : coming from the south, as a wind.
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- : Also southwards. toward the south; south.
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- : the southward part, direction, or point.
Examples
Trailing their prey, carnivorous dinosaurs followed, and as wintry weather arrived, both herbivores and carnivores followed their food southward again.
For all that has changed in American life during this period, this pattern has proved remarkably durable, as population and resources have consistently flowed southward and westward.
In 1921, some 10,000 workers marched southward from the West Virginia state capital of Charleston to anti-union counties in an effort to protest coal companies’ complete control of the territory.
That’s a configuration that tends to force a developing coastal storm south and east of Washington and allows cold air from the Canadian high pressure to drain southward into our region.
Whales singing in the day could also be swimming through a given region without starting their southward migration.
Their finest thinkers and ablest warriors migrated southward.
Sub-freezing air will also extend southward across the border of Texas into Mexico.
The result will be an epic cold air outbreak, with much of the coldness being channeled southward from Greenland.
But as industry migrated southward after the war, Southern New Dealers like Strom Thurmond changed their economic philosophy.
Our talk ranged from the Panhandle to the Canada line, while our horses jogged steadily southward.
In case any reader should hastily exclaim, “What a ridiculous question; there can be only one !”