go west
Example Sentences
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Americans today likely don’t realize just how difficult it was for young men to take Horace Greeley’s advice and go west, especially to California.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
Story left the Cincinnati area in 1979 to go west and find her biological father, traveling to Las Vegas with two male friends, police said.
From Washington Times • Dec. 20, 2023
"Instead of seaports we go west," he explains.
From BBC • Mar. 15, 2022
“We’re taught in school that this was a push by Easterners to go west and expand the United States to the Pacific Ocean,” the teenager said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2020
“Then if we watch the sun, we can always go west. If we go west, we will come to Haiti.”
From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple
