westward

Example Sentences

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The travellers moved on, continuing westward along the coast.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

Kish, westward into the Gulf, has an airstrip.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 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

To his right there loomed against the westward stars a dark black shape.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien