westwards
IPA: wˈɛstwɝdz
adverb
- westward, towards the west
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Examples of "westwards" in Sentences
- Ajijic in 1966, looking westwards from the pier across the area that was later converted into a park.
- But, as Atatürk himself once observed, Turks always think westwards even though the west has always been prejudiced against Turks.
- Still brighter than any star, it dims a little from mag -2.8 to -2.6 as creeps slowly westwards on the border between Aries and Pisces.
- That side which looks to the westwards is a close-built wall, while that towards the east is erected on pillars, the length being from north to south.
- At the latitude of this earthquake, the Pacific plate moves approximately westwards with respect to the North America plate at a velocity of 83 mm/yr.
- Cyclone Thane crossed the north Tamil Nadu coast in the morning and then weakened after moving westwards, the India Meteorological Department said in a statement on its website.
- And the second reason Metro offers for not building a more centrally located Westwood station is that they don't want to tunnel under a cemetery as they continue the subway route westwards.
- Not long before sunset I walked out across the gorse and bracken of Mayon Cliff on to the grassy headland and looked westwards, past the Longships lighthouse, a mile and a half out on its rocky reef, though it looks much closer.
- I have inquired more than once of Curtis if he has the faintest idea to what quarter of the Atlantic we have drifted, and each time he has been unable to give me a decided answer, though from his general observation of the direction of the wind and currents he imagines that we have been carried westwards, that is to say, towards the land.
- -- I have inquired more than once of Curtis if he has the faintest idea to what quarter of the Atlantic we have drifted, and each time he has been unable to give me a decided answer, though from his general observation of the direction of the wind and currents he imagines that we have been carried westwards, that is to say, towards the land.
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