westerly
Example Sentences
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A deepening area of low pressure between Scotland and Iceland on Wednesday is bringing strong westerly winds, gales and even touching severe gales.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026
During strong westerly winds, especially in years with a wet spring and hot, dry fall, swarms of thousands—sometimes hundreds of thousands—roll freely over the prairie landscape, halting only where housing developments stand in their way.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025
"Previous studies suggested that global climate change would strengthen the westerly winds over the Southern Ocean, and with that, the overturning circulation too," says Léa Olivier.
From Science Daily • Oct. 27, 2025
Strengthening westerly winds are already pushing the deep water closer to the surface.
From Science Daily • Oct. 27, 2025
On past the dim glimpse of land he sailed, tacking more westerly now, in a faint dank drizzle that over land might be a light snow.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
