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

Observers said this was aimed at allowing Israel to shift the Yellow Line westward.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 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

During the first two decades after the war for independence from Britain, large numbers of first- and second-generation Ulster Scots moved westward into the Ohio Valley, western Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz