western

Example Sentences

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Some western estimates put its active duty contingent in the hundreds of thousands, still a very substantial total.

From BBC

It was late afternoon now, and the sun was a vivid orange—nearly red—as it began to sink lower in the western sky.

From Literature

Over the weekend, authorities began searching for and confiscating Starlink dishes in western Tehran, said Amir Rashidi, director of digital rights and security at Miaan Group, a U.S. nonprofit opposed to internet censorship.

From The Wall Street Journal

She met them at the airport within hours, and took them by train to a recruitment centre in Bryansk, western Russia, he says.

From BBC

After decades of aspiring to remake the world along western liberal lines, the U.S. is coming to terms with limits on U.S. power, said John Lewis Gaddis, a professor of military history at Yale University.

From The Wall Street Journal