How to Use westerly in a Sentence

westerly

adjective or adverb

• But the westerly wind blows hard through the Carquinez Strait, and the winds of change blew over the town.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2021
• The winds were weak, in turn, because the westerly jet stream was well north of the storm.
  — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2017
• The westerly wind was stronger in the backyard yet there were some out-of-the-way places, like miniature dells.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 25 Apr. 2020
• The storm’s going to take a westerly turn, and then a northerly turn: Imagine a slight hook to the left, and then a sharp hook up to the north.
  — Jen Kirby, Daily Intelligencer, 5 Sep. 2017
• Light winds from the south shift to come from a westerly direction later in the day.
  — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 12 June 2018
• Part of the Southern Alps, the range is the first to receive strong westerly airstreams, resulting in up to 20 feet of rain per year.
  — Jessica Wynne Lockhart, Outside Online, 19 Jan. 2020
• By Monday, westerly winds will start to break that up, Mehle said.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 11 July 2020
• Not in Birmingham, if the wind happens to blow in a westerly way.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 28 Dec. 2022
• Some of the shear came from strong westerly winds in mid levels as a disturbance in the jet stream (shortwave trough) moved out of the Great Lakes.
  — Washington Post, 30 July 2021
• Our trip to Langara this summer was marked by 25-mile-an-hour westerly winds, adding a rock-’n’-roll beat to the rhythm of our fishing boat.
  — Melanie Kirkpatrick, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
• All of these events are touched by jet streams, strong and narrow bands of westerly winds blowing above the Earth's surface.
  — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 28 July 2021
• Southerly and then westerly winds could gust near 25 mph, helping to dry us out.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023
• Aziz Razoky has lived near the top of the summit for 10 years, with a home that gives him westerly views of downtown San Diego.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2021
• Millions of them got a brief respite from smoky skies Sunday as westerly winds pushed smoke toward the east.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2020
• For the return trip on a more westerly route, the birds crossed the Gulf Stream from the Bahamas and stopped along the Florida coast to recuperate.
  — Wendy Mitman Clarke, Smithsonian, 6 Mar. 2017
• Sustained westerly winds of 20-30 MPH, with higher gusts, will sweep over the risk areas.
  — Dennis Mersereau, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2021
• Clear skies are expected on Monday night, with light westerly winds and a low around 47.
  — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 17 Oct. 2021
• Temperatures will warm up nicely on the strength of a westerly wind at 5-15 mph.
  — Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2022
• As the morning showers clear, a strong westerly wind will follow.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2020
• Light westerly winds between 5 to 7 mph are expected, the NWS said.
  — Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, 13 Sep. 2019
• The beach’s westerly location on the European coast allows it to catch wind, and thus ocean swells, from storms that sweep across the North Atlantic.
  — Elaina Zachos, National Geographic, 30 Apr. 2018
• The team set up the computer to slowly print out a graph of how one or two variables—say, the latitude of the strongest westerly winds—changed over time.
  — Joshua Sokol, WIRED, 26 May 2019
• In the Southwest, that means a swing from our normal, relatively dry, westerly winds to more moisture-laden winds from the south.
  — Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 14 June 2018
• Our splendid ramble traces the southern edge of Ennerdale Water, the park’s most westerly lake—and one of its most remote.
  — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• Anglers need to keep an eye on the weekend weather, though, with rain and big westerly winds in the forecast for Lake Erie’s walleye fishing.
  — cleveland, 17 Mar. 2022
• The storm was moving in a westerly direction, threatening other parts of the Phoenix metro area as well.
  — Brieanna J Frank, azcentral, 9 July 2018
• Strickland said a more westerly route would serve that area and could also connect back to I-49 west-northwest of Bentonville.
  — Ron Wood, Arkansas Online, 16 Dec. 2022
• Afterward, order a pint at the nearby Palace Saloon, which prides itself as the most westerly bar in the lower 48.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 1 July 2021
• The storm system has all the hallmarks of a cut-off low — a low-pressure system that has become disconnected from the main westerly flow of air.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2019
• Moderate westerly winds sinking and heating off the Appalachians may help boost our temperatures into at least the mid-80s to perhaps as hot as around 90.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024