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"Westward" in a Sentence (22 examples)
The sun declined westward.
They headed westward.
Europe is not really a continent; it juts westward out of Eurasia, the continent, as India juts southward out thereof.
Unlike waves that break along the shore, Rossby waves are huge, undulating movements of the ocean that stretch horizontally across the planet for hundreds of kilometers in a westward direction.
Coal powered trains plied the rails in the United States for 175 years, starting in the 1830's, and were an integral part of America's westward expansion and industrial revolution.
What is motivating Erdogan's westward shift?
In the course of ten or fifteen minutes the thinning mist dissolved altogether from the northern horizon, as it had already done elsewhere, and about a quarter of an hour before the time of sunset the westward clouds parted, the sun's position being partially uncovered, and the beams streaming out in visible lines between two bars of slaty cloud.
William watched the sunset from the airplane window as he flew westward.
The wonder is that the majority of the emigrants continued their westward journey.
Westward of Arran as I sailed away; / I saw the fairest sight eye can behold-- / Rocks which, illumined by the morning's ray, / Seemed like a glorious city built of gold.
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[…] yond same star that’s westward from the pole
[…] about a quarter of an hour before the time of sunset the westward clouds parted […]
It stands high up on the westward slopes of the Alpilles […]
1783, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, London: W. Strahan & T. Cadell, Volume 3, Chapter 17, p. 8, Those who steer their westward course through the middle of the Propontis, may at once descry the high lands of Thrace and Bithynia, and never lose sight of the lofty summit of Mount Olympus, covered with eternal snows.
Oh! ye wild black swans, ’twere a world of wonder For a while to join in your westward flight,
They moved out on the westward road again.
ride westward.
Looke here my boies, see what a world of ground, Lies westward from the midst of Cancers line, Vnto the rising of this earthly globe,
Westward the course of empire takes its way;
1857, John Henry Hopkins Jr., “We Three Kings” (Christmas carol), O star of wonder, star of night, Star with royal beauty bright, Westward leading, still proceeding, Guide us to thy perfect light.
I name this to explain what I said before, of Ships being embay’d and lost here: this is when, coming from the Westward, they omit to keep a good Offing, or are taken short by contrary Winds […]
You will live quietly there till I come back from my next cruise to the westward.
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