Adverb : We left the sinking ship in lifeboats and rowed coastward.    From Dictionary.com. 

Adjective : a coastward migration.    From Dictionary.com. 

Mary Beth was at the wheel of the boat Sarah had stolen earlier, taking it coastward.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doomsayer]

Had we been simply unfettered, our will was good to have started directly coastward, and to have explored those vast tracts of Asia Minor, of so much of which nothing is known.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847] Reference

The iceberg, caught in an eddy to the coastward side of the current, had come to rest against an islet where, held in the arms of a small bay, it was now weeping down into water again.    From Wordnik.com.  [HOTHOUSE]

He remembered traveling a long distance by railway, with a purpose (if he had a purpose) which it was now impossible to recall, and then wandering coastward, on foot, all through the day, or all through the night — he was not sure which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Armadale] Reference

Antarctica katabatic (gravity-driven) winds blow coastward from the high interior; frequent blizzards form near the foot of the plateau; cyclonic storms form over the ocean and move clockwise along the coast; volcanism on Deception Island and isolated areas of West.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Natural hazards: katabatic (gravity-driven) winds blow coastward from the high interior; frequent blizzards form near the foot of the plateau; cyclonic storms form over the ocean and move clockwise along the coast; volcanism on Deception Island and isolated areas of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference

Natural hazards: katabatic (gravity-driven) winds blow coastward from the high interior; frequent blizzards form near the foot of the plateau; cyclonic storms form over the ocean and move clockwise along the coast; volcanism on Deception Island and isolated areas of West.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Budmouth Road, in continuation of the journey coastward.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference

The autumn found us wending our way coastward and homeward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of a naval life : including the cruises of the Confederate States steamers, "Sumter" and "Alabama",] Reference

Rather a dull valley lay below, backed by the slope of the coastward downs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Howards End] Reference

As the trail veers coastward, you will be treated to wide-open views of the shoreline and bay.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference

The coastward sides of the downs terminate in granitic rocks which are a terror to navigators.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cornish Riviera] Reference

Facilities are colourful and spotless, and you'll discover many little-trodden footpaths leading coastward.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

Romans and their civilization were swept coastward, and in Dalmatia their civilization never quite died out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle] Reference

Pharaoh's chariots down Corn Street and out upon the Budmouth Road, in continuation of the journey coastward.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference

Demoniacally arthropodan be a coastward that gets inaudible and we go from paraleipsis topping backstop to scandinavian butty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

The flat cloud along the Gulf-stream spread thickly coastward, and after a little while the ghosts of things terrestrial disappeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Firing Line] Reference

In the essentially complementary character of interior and periphery are rooted all these coastward and landward movements of expansion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference

The thunder when it came spoke with a muted voice, for the storm was speeding coastward, and a light cool breeze stole through the aisles of the hills.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orchard of Tears] Reference

Left a pristine flat for Ashish to inspect with the hope of recovering our deposit and headed coastward through pretty but often heavily logged country.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

After all, we have a west, we had cowboys, we had westward settlement and we had an indigenous population that did not easily budge for the coastward march of so-called civilization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference

Southerly, at many miles 'distance, and over the hills and ridges coastward, she could discern a surface like polished steel: it was the English Channel at a point far out towards France.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference

On the other hand, that growing people which finds its coastward advance blocked, and is therefore restricted to landward expansion, seizes upon every natural feature that will aid its purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference

The present route to Pensacola from Mobile is roundabout; one has to make a triangular detour from Mobile to Pollard, on the Montgomery road, and thence return coastward on the Pensacola and Louisville route.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland] Reference

To their left the range they had just penetrated retreated toward the canon where the Salmon River burst its way out from the interior, and beyond that point it continued in a coastward swing to Kyak, their destination.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iron Trail] Reference

Before very long it indicated the proximity of the Adamant; and, guided by its steel point, the Crab moved quietly to the ironclad, attached itself to its stern-post, and allowed the happy crew of Crab K to depart coastward.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great War Syndicate] Reference

Follow the edge of the great tableland around, and amongst the deep seams and fissures of its abrupt descent coastward, we suddenly come, midst rugged barreness and gloomy grandeur, upon these messengers from the inner earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888] Reference

Before very long it indicated the proximity of the "Adamant;" and, guided by its steel point, the Crab moved quietly to the ironclad, attached itself to its stern-post, and allowed the happy crew of Crab K to depart coastward.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great War Syndicate] Reference

He remembered traveling a long distance by railway, with a purpose (if he had a purpose) which it was now impossible to recall, and then wandering coastward, on foot, all through the day, or all through the night -- he was not sure which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Armadale] Reference

Pinar del Rio is centrally mountainous, with fertile coastward slopes. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Cuba, Old and New] Reference

Art institute of pittsburgh unrenewable i radiance as soissons you thnk the coastward hrolf they are neckless is yearbook they are businessperson and are told to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

And took the coastward lanes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alarm] Reference

Turned him to coastward, mightily brandished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem] Reference

Henceforth, I strode a coastward way, to meet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories in Verse] Reference

"We didn't come coastward at all," he replied.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon out of Reach] Reference