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

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

During the first two decades after the war for independence from Britain, large numbers of first- and second-generation Ulster Scots moved westward into the Ohio Valley, western Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz