(1) Cancer 5:349-356, 1970; R. W. Geib, M. B. Seaward, M. L. Stevens, C.-L. Cho, and M. Majumdar, Virus Res.
(2) The absence of an effect of PRLs in chum salmon fry seems to be due, at least in part, to their good osmoregulatory ability during the period of seaward migration; effects of the exogenously administered PRLs may be compensated for by other hormones responsible for their hydromineral balance.
(3) The New York Bight extends seaward some 80 to 100 miles (ca.
(4) Perhaps mine was the last generation to be brought up with the fully inflated version of this idea – that the Clyde's tradition and skills made its ships singularly good – but it was powerful while it lasted and still held sway in 1961, when the documentary Seawards the Great Ships won an unexpected Oscar and thrilled us at the cinema with its heroic depiction of Glasgow's workaday river.
(5) Lymnaea truncatula is not found on or at the seaward side of the dike, whereas it is abundant all over the marshland.
(6) Particles that escape estuaries or are discharged by rivers into the shelf region tend to travel longshoreward rather than seaward.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Views of seaward mangrove fringes showing minor (left) and extreme (right) damage in June 2016 between Limmen and MacArthur rivers, NT.
(8) This paper reports studies on the mechanisms underlying seaward orientation in hatchling turtles.
(9) The high infection percentage among adult animals and the strikingly low frequency among slaughter lambs could be explained by the characteristic management system of the marshland: In summer the sheep graze the dike and the foreland on its seaward side, and in winter the animals graze in the marshland.
(10) Turn seawards to experience the thrill of the Indian Ocean’s thunderous breakers; if you are lucky you may spy a pod of bottlenose dolphins.
(11) Its seaward position gives it great strategic value: a kind of Gibraltar at the mouth of the upper Adriatic.
(12) Seaward lies Burgh island, where Noël Coward and Agatha Christie partied in the 1920s.
Undertow
Definition:
(n.) The current that sets seaward near the bottom when waves are breaking upon the shore.
Example Sentences:
(1) Today as the marijuana economies in Colorado and Washington begin to take flight, Alexander noted the inescapable undertow of race that continues to haunt this moment of apparent progress at play: "Forty years of impoverished black kids getting prison time for selling weed, and their families and futures destroyed … Now, white men are planning to get rich doing precisely the same thing."
(2) The atmosphere is calm, happy and orderly, but there’s an undertow of profound need – not obvious during a brief visit – that affects a significant number of the children and their ability to learn.
(3) He said: “Apparently there has been this undertow that has now bubbled to the surface.” Addressing a town hall meeting in Ferguson earlier this week, Cornell Brooks, the president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), said that police in the city must address a “subculture” of prejudice.
(4) Back in the early 1980s, when U2 began to hone their widescreen sound, the quasi-religious undertow of their big music defied the tenor of the downbeat post-punk times.
(5) The undertow of barely suppressed concern was evident at a pre-kickoff press conference in the bowels of the Stade de France that began with the official mascot, Super Victor , cavorting with the DJ David Guetta, who will appear at the opening ceremony, but ended with a slew of questions on security and strikes.
(6) Where his previous porn film, as it were, had an undertow of sniggering prurience (to the extent that he appeared as an extra in a gay porno entitled Take A Peak), Twilight Of The Porn Stars is sombre and sympathetic.
(7) That tribute had an undertow of concern over a footballer who has naturally lost some of his effervescence but there was nothing flat about Giggs on Saturday.
(8) What is palpable throughout is the homoerotic undertow that is a constant in all his work.
(9) He added: "Apparently there is this undertow that has now bubbled to the surface."
(10) I would love to be able to write for pure pleasure, but the undertow is always loneliness.” He makes a gesture of helplessness.
(11) Day-trippers should be aware that there are no lifeguards on duty here and it isn't safe to swim in the big surf as there are undertows.
(12) I ask Walsh if the play has any social undertow other than the sense that deepest rural Ireland can be a casually cruel and, indeed, gothic place.
(13) Underneath the pills and lotions and new-age quackery that our pains and aches lead us towards, there is an undertow, an underpinning and an imagined certainty that – as with all those other diseases that were once so common and are now so rare – ours too will one day be a distant memory.
(14) I could no longer sleep; my consciousness filled up with the lumber of dreams, of broken-edged sections of the past heaving in the undertow.