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
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
Those won’t go west of Oklahoma, though, according to scientists.
From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2024
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
The best thing to do, it being fall, was to head south or west for the winter, and because I didn’t want to go south I decided to go west.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
