westward
IPA: wˈɛstwɝd
noun
- The western region or countries; the west.
- A civil parish and small village in Allerdale borough, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY2744).
adjective
- Lying toward the west.
- Moving or oriented toward the west.
adverb
- Toward the west.
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Examples of "westward" in Sentences
- For this he blamed himself; he felt a deep ambivalence about his role in westward expansion.
- A regular permit to move westward is practically only granted to elderly people in very exceptional cases.
- They travel by canoe westward from the shores of Lake Superior along the rivers of northern Minnesota, in search of a new home.
- The buffalo clover found in the western part of this State, and common still farther westward, is the only undoubtedly native variety we possess.
- Asia Minor, or Anatolia, is a peninsula stretching westward from the Armenian mountains to the Aegean Sea, with the Black Sea to the north and the Mediterranean to the south.
- Officials suspect three or four sub-adult male grizzlies are responsible for this year's sightings, having paddled and island-hopped their way westward from the B.C. mainland.
- The romance of them was in my blood; I thrilled to the lure of adventure which had led my forefathers westward from the Old Land – a land which I always heard referred to as "Home," by men and women whose parents were Canadian born and bred.
- (Applause) Every important river on this continent, with the exception of the Missouri and Mississippi and those that flow westward from the Appalachian Range, have their origin in the northern water-shed, and all the important rivers are flowing north.
- At Chemulpo, only a few miles westward from the Korean capital of Seoul, London barely had time to recover from his ailments when he learned that the Russian advance had nearly reached Ping Yang (Pyongyang, capital of North Korea, today), nearly 200 miles to the north.
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