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
Route 66 was 20 years old and World War II had just ended when Bobby Troup, an aspiring songwriter from Pennsylvania, decided to go west.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
In the station concourse a young soldier with a Kalashnikov slung across his back was hugging his girlfriend before she left to go west and he went back to his unit.
From BBC • Feb. 24, 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
Gabe turned toward me and spoke in the rasping voice of the Oracle: You shall go west, and face the god who has turned.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
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