Used in a Sentence

onwards

How to use onwards in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for onwards.

Editorial note

And we saw how well that workedMicrosoft from 1992 onwards?

Examples8
Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

in a forward direction; "go ahead"; "the train moved ahead slowly"; "the boat lurched ahead"; "moved onward into the forest"; "they went slowly forward in the mud"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of onwards gathered in one view.

adverb

in a forward direction; "go ahead"; "the train moved ahead slowly"; "the boat lurched ahead"; "moved onward into the forest"; "they went slowly forward in the mud"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for onwards.

adverb

in a forward direction; "go ahead"; "the train moved ahead slowly"; "the boat lurched ahead"; "moved onward into the forest"; "they went slowly forward in the mud"

Example sentences

1

And we saw how well that workedMicrosoft from 1992 onwards?

2

Get a cheap VPS/EC2 abroad and use SSH tunnel to connect to that and from then onwards - to a Tor bridge.

3

If this discovery proved true it would literally force us to rewrite physics from ~1900 onwards.

4

Conversely, the outliers become the American Dream, seducing the average worker ever onwards with promises of riches and comfort just a few lucky breaks away.

5

My father, an East German now living in the UK, was saying the other day that he sees parallels between the rise of the Stasi in the 1950's onwards and the UK government's behaviour over the last two decades.

6

This is very far off from what I am proposing, the Linux kernel team decided to implement a recommendation that is still under review by the ietf, every release of Linux from 3 onwards has IW 10 enabled by-default.

7

Thankfully, people of that mindset are mostly approaching retirement age and the generation of doctors below them seem to be more open to new ideas - something I suspect is an artefact of being trained during the eighties onwards when lots of fields of medicine became a lot more research focused and less interested in doing things because "that's how it's always been done".

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It seems that in our industry it is universally a code word for "We're about to exploit you because the project is understaffed and under budgeted for time and that is exactly as we planned it so you'd better cowboy up."Maybe it is different if you're writing Quake, but I guarantee you the 43rd best selling game that year also had programmers "encouraged onwards" by tales of the glory that awaited after the death march.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use onwards in a sentence?

And we saw how well that workedMicrosoft from 1992 onwards?

What does onwards mean?

in a forward direction; "go ahead"; "the train moved ahead slowly"; "the boat lurched ahead"; "moved onward into the forest"; "they went slowly forward in the mud"

What part of speech is onwards?

onwards is commonly used as adverb.