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
  • 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

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