Example sentences for: onward

How can you use “onward” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It offers a case in point from one of the 17 volumes of The Lives of the Saints , a massive work written between 1872 and 1889 by Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924), the English clergyman who is best remembered as the author of the hymn, “Onward, Christian Soldiers.”

  • The goddess Athena, his watchful patroness, soon arranges to get him saved and sent onward.

  • Given that current rates are unlikely to remain constant over an extended period of time, and that persons are more likely interested in their chance of developing the cancer from their current ages onward, short-term, age-conditional probability estimates are perhaps more relevant [ 10 ] . Both types of probability estimates are reported in this paper.

  • A spit-and-polish cop waves the procession onward (the in-joke here is that it now seems headed toward the CNN building four blocks from the Capitol).

  • In the era of the Tokugawa shoguns, the canals were used to carry rice and grain in barges for onward shipment to the great markets of Osaka and Edo.


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