What's the difference between southward and southwards?

Southward


Definition:

  • (adv.) Alt. of Southwards
  • (a.) Toward the south.
  • (n.) The southern regions or countries; the south.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The result was to shift the intertropical convergence zone southwards.
  • (2) YouTube today is the biggest music service on the planet, thanks to our artists, our fans, our partners and the millions of official music videos, remixes, covers, mashups … you name it,” YouTube’s music content partnerships boss, Anjali Southward, told the Guardian.
  • (3) When a boat’s hull was packed with human cargo, it would depart southward to Thailand or Malaysia.
  • (4) The data presented here show that the distinctive features of Languedoc extend northwards through the Rhône Valley up to Lyon and disappears southwards before the Spanish border.
  • (5) Erdoğan has also been criticised by EU countries for pursuing his vendetta with the Kurds while failing to stem the northwards flow of Syrian refugees and the southwards flow of Isis recruits from Europe and North America.
  • (6) Both share a conviction that the Christian world's centre of gravity is moving southwards.
  • (7) So this very strong jet stream has kept this cold air locked in, and then suddenly it's been allowed to be released, sort of splurged out southwards, due to various meteorological factors.
  • (8) Aedes furcifer was collected for the first time at Durban, extending its distribution southward to latitude 29 degrees 53' S.
  • (9) But despite a UN security council resolution and unanimous approval , the plan had got nowhere when the al-Qaida affiliated Islamist groups began an offensive southwards, easily overcoming Malian army resistance.
  • (10) The interstate highway may have been a barrier to deer movement which slowed the southward dispersal of Ixodes dammini.
  • (11) Macronyssid mites (Radfordiella) have been found in the oral mucosa of the long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris nivalis), which occurs from Texas southward throughout much of Mexico.
  • (12) Authentic Scottish Labour, no longer a “branch office” of the party in Westminster, needs to keep top talent at Holyrood, after eons of brain-drain southwards.
  • (13) In desert territories situated southwards from the oasis phenological dates pass ahead those for the oasis for about 10 days.
  • (14) Geographically, the epidemic moved eastward and southward in the state.
  • (15) Many Labour MPs in the north believe that rather than spreading prosperity northwards – and narrowing the north-south divide – HS2 will suck even more prosperity southwards as a result of faster links.
  • (16) There had long been a debate about what led to the decline of Angkor and the southward move of the Khmer seat of power.
  • (17) During the medieval period the entry of Islam in the subcontinent brought with it a Persian tradition of poetry, painting and music that spread from Afghanistan southwards.
  • (18) Major job losses since the early 1980s were heaviest in the central belt of Scotland, the north-east of England, along a line that stretches along the M62 from Liverpool to Hull, and extends southwards down the M1 into the Midlands.
  • (19) Throughout the desert areas southward from oasis all phenological phenomena take place in both species ten days earlier than in oasis.
  • (20) We are a very successful ad-supported business to date, and we have paid out over a billion dollars to the music industry,” said Southward.

Southwards


Definition:

  • (adv.) Toward the south, or toward a point nearer the south than the east or west point; as, to go southward.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The result was to shift the intertropical convergence zone southwards.
  • (2) YouTube today is the biggest music service on the planet, thanks to our artists, our fans, our partners and the millions of official music videos, remixes, covers, mashups … you name it,” YouTube’s music content partnerships boss, Anjali Southward, told the Guardian.
  • (3) When a boat’s hull was packed with human cargo, it would depart southward to Thailand or Malaysia.
  • (4) The data presented here show that the distinctive features of Languedoc extend northwards through the Rhône Valley up to Lyon and disappears southwards before the Spanish border.
  • (5) Erdoğan has also been criticised by EU countries for pursuing his vendetta with the Kurds while failing to stem the northwards flow of Syrian refugees and the southwards flow of Isis recruits from Europe and North America.
  • (6) Both share a conviction that the Christian world's centre of gravity is moving southwards.
  • (7) So this very strong jet stream has kept this cold air locked in, and then suddenly it's been allowed to be released, sort of splurged out southwards, due to various meteorological factors.
  • (8) Aedes furcifer was collected for the first time at Durban, extending its distribution southward to latitude 29 degrees 53' S.
  • (9) But despite a UN security council resolution and unanimous approval , the plan had got nowhere when the al-Qaida affiliated Islamist groups began an offensive southwards, easily overcoming Malian army resistance.
  • (10) The interstate highway may have been a barrier to deer movement which slowed the southward dispersal of Ixodes dammini.
  • (11) Macronyssid mites (Radfordiella) have been found in the oral mucosa of the long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris nivalis), which occurs from Texas southward throughout much of Mexico.
  • (12) Authentic Scottish Labour, no longer a “branch office” of the party in Westminster, needs to keep top talent at Holyrood, after eons of brain-drain southwards.
  • (13) In desert territories situated southwards from the oasis phenological dates pass ahead those for the oasis for about 10 days.
  • (14) Geographically, the epidemic moved eastward and southward in the state.
  • (15) Many Labour MPs in the north believe that rather than spreading prosperity northwards – and narrowing the north-south divide – HS2 will suck even more prosperity southwards as a result of faster links.
  • (16) There had long been a debate about what led to the decline of Angkor and the southward move of the Khmer seat of power.
  • (17) During the medieval period the entry of Islam in the subcontinent brought with it a Persian tradition of poetry, painting and music that spread from Afghanistan southwards.
  • (18) Major job losses since the early 1980s were heaviest in the central belt of Scotland, the north-east of England, along a line that stretches along the M62 from Liverpool to Hull, and extends southwards down the M1 into the Midlands.
  • (19) Throughout the desert areas southward from oasis all phenological phenomena take place in both species ten days earlier than in oasis.
  • (20) We are a very successful ad-supported business to date, and we have paid out over a billion dollars to the music industry,” said Southward.

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