westward

Example Sentences

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Wherever the group paused along their journey westward, they planted one.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

Kish, westward into the Gulf, has an airstrip.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

The market is due to see a rolling supply disruption unfolding “sequentially rather than simultaneously” — moving westward, “dictated by shipping times and buffered unevenly by regional inventories.”

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

She’s walked from her studio to Watts Towers or westward to Torrance, collecting things she finds on the ground along the way and eventually transforming them.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2025

Sheed sat on the hill, a great westward view of the sun sinking over distant trees.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles