westward

Example Sentences

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While Young America emphasized internal improvements and westward expansion, the spirit carried over into the “American system” of manufacturing.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

The travellers moved on, continuing westward along the coast.

From BBC • May 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

The Saudis have a pipeline system with a capacity of about seven million barrels a day that goes westward from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea.

From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026

The vast vapours that arose in Mordor and went streaming westward passed low overhead, a great welter of cloud and smoke now lit again beneath with a sullen glow of red.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien