How to Use Westerner in a Sentence

Westerner

noun

• Westerners tend to be unfamiliar with Asian customs.
• In a videotape of the incident, one of the pilots on the ground is a Westerner speaking English.
  — Helene Cooper, New York Times, 5 June 2024
• The brand’s plain black cotton Westerner transforms sober dark grey or charcoal suits, too.
  — Aleks Cvetkovic, Robb Report, 7 July 2021
• The story takes us inside Japanese power circles (circa the 1600s) from the point of view of a Westerner named John Blackthorne.
  — Nina Metz, Twin Cities, 4 Jan. 2024
• Look at our history: Westerners settled here a few hundred years ago with no respect for the indigenous who had a deeper connection to the land.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 24 May 2024
• The region is famous for its far lower prices on food, hotels, activities, and excursions than most Westerners are used to.
  — Lindsay Tigar, Travel + Leisure, 29 Apr. 2023
• The students rarely exhibited the kind of idealism that a Westerner associates with youth.
  — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• But its universe is still being imagined, largely, by Westerners.
  — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2023
• Unlike other Westerners, the Crooks chose to live on campus, alongside their students and fellow faculty members.
  — Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
• Unlike the middle of the global income distribution, the composition of the top has remained much the same over the previous three decades: dominated by Westerners.
  — Branko Milanovic, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2023
• There are conventional offerings, like massages and facials, and more unusual — to Westerners, at least — options that harness singing bowls, stones, and Ayurvedic techniques.
  — Claudia Fisher, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2024
• One Westerner who supported the bill was President Lincoln, who looked past constitutional qualms to the plain necessity.
  — Roger Lowenstein, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
• This hotel is more what a Westerner is likely accustomed to, with plenty of versatile dining options (also because it’s attached to the adjoining Trident Hotel through a passageway of shops).
  — Claudia Fisher, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2024
• And Indonesian music is generally, and not surprisingly, overlooked by Westerners, who would actually find a lot to love in the thriving local music scenes.
  — Keegan Bradford, SPIN, 25 July 2024
• Additionally, when studying populations of people who don’t wear modern footwear, researchers rarely if ever find any of the chronic foot conditions that plague the average Westerner.
  — Dr. Ray McClanahan, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2020
• Beer’s work tracks a Westerner’s aesthetic journey into an ancient spiritual culture that Sherpa works joyfully to recontextualize in the present day.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2023
• The top of the global income distribution thus remains dominated by Westerners, especially by Americans.
  — Branko Milanovic, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2023
• Taken to its illogical extreme, Russia is liberating Ukrainians from the degenerate Westerners tricking them into turning against their Russian brothers.
  — Michael S. Neiberg, Washington Post, 12 June 2023
• But even as Chinese athletes in Paris have made further strides in sports traditionally dominated by Westerners, a sense of the injustice and isolation they’ve been forced to overcome continues to loom over Olympic discourse.
  — Koh Ewe, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024