westward

Example Sentences

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Wherever the group paused along their journey westward, they planted one.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

Christopher Columbus was trying to find a westward route from Europe to Asia when he discovered the New World.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 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

They had not gone far before the sun sank behind the westward heights and great shadows crept down the mountain-sides.

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