Western

//ˈwɛstɚn//

"Western" in a Sentence (17 examples)

Some scholars ascribe the settlement of America to social unrest in Western Europe.

In foreign countries, especially in Western countries, students are encouraged to express and develop themselves as individuals.

France is in western Europe.

They are much better than Western baths.

The fork made its way to Western tables several hundred years later, but it was not immediately accepted.

Let us consider in this connection the influence of Western ideologies on Korean literature.

Soviet and Western observers have warned that if the Muslim republics do not join the commonwealth, they may from a separate group, setting up a volatile ethnic and religious split.

Even three centuries ago, most Western Europeans still used their fingers.

It's a shoot-'em-up western.

Today, one of every seven people in Western Europe is classified as elderly.

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Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.

Japanese is traditionally written downwards (tategaki) and you begin reading from the top right of a page. This means that books are opened from what we would consider to be the back. Nowadays, however, books, newspapers and magazines are often written western style, in horizontal lines (yokogaki) from left to right and, in these cases, the book is opened from our (western) understanding of the front.

As Western culture became increasingly mechanized in the 1600s, the female earth and virgin earth spirit were subdued by the machine.

He would be as happy with her as he would be with Jennie—almost—and he would have the satisfaction of knowing that this Western social and financial world held no more significant figure than himself.

Born in Penglai, on the coast of Shandong, in 1888, Miss Pruitt grew up in an inland village where for many years hers was the only Western family.

If, again, after studying the life and words of Christ, and comparing them with the Christianity which they see practised in the West, or in the Westerns who reside among them, they are not drawn to Western Christianity […]

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