westerly
Example Sentences
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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
Strengthening westerly winds are already pushing the deep water closer to the surface.
From Science Daily • Oct. 27, 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
Put simply, westerly disturbances can "effectively turbocharge the monsoon", said Akshay Deoras, a weather scientist at the University of Reading in the UK.
From BBC • Oct. 11, 2025
The effluent glacier seems to run on a long curve westerly up to the Gobrin plateau.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
