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sunward

/suhn-werd/US // ˈsʌn wərd //UK // (ˈsʌnwəd) //

向阳,向日葵,向阳面,向阳光

Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : Also sunwards. toward the sun.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : directed toward the sun.

Examples

  • Now the world rights itself again, and once more we are all bounding sunward.

  • As the flowers of the earth turn their heads sunward, so does the flower-bearing earth aspire towards him.

  • She had run heedlessly overnight, and she could not tell whether the squatting-place was sunward or where it lay.

  • The opposite sunward-facing slopes are more gentle, and the principal villages lie high up on the mountain side.

  • Sunward is the blinding glare of the desert; on the dark side, enormous banks of lowering clouds.