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
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
He’s got a simple charge: Protect me, advance me to go west.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2022
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
