westward

Example Sentences

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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

After its takeover of the North Darfur capital of El-Fasher in October, the RSF has pushed westward in recent days, through enclaves inhabited by the Zaghawa ethnic group and controlled by an army-allied militia.

From Barron's • Dec. 28, 2025

In the North Atlantic, the region has spread eastward beyond the northern coast of South America and westward into much of the Gulf.

From Science Daily • Dec. 25, 2025

Suddenly he was aware that two black specks were moving slowly along it, going westward; and looking again he saw that three others were creeping eastward to meet them.

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