How to Use westward in a Sentence

westward

1 of 2 adverb or adjective

• The district will now stretch westward across the state.
  — CBS News, 5 Oct. 2023
• The mill has switched to sending steel westward to the EU via road and rail.
  — Marcus Walker, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2022
• Since then, Auburn has rolled over the state like a, well, navy blue tide, surging westward.
  — Ramsey Archibald | [e-mail], al, 13 Aug. 2022
• Ukraine, at the same time, continued to drift westward.
  — Paul Sonne and Robyn Dixon, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2022
• The new section, a nine-month project, will extend the trail westward to the hospital.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 22 June 2023
• The disease spread rapidly, first up and down the East Coast, then westward toward the heartland.
  — Boyce Upholt, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2022
• On the ground, signs pointed to a widening zone of conflict, spreading westward.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2022
• But waves and risk could increase if Hilary’s path shifts westward.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023
• The system will continue to move westward over the central Atlantic Ocean and could be near the Lesser Antilles by the end of the week.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 18 June 2023
• It’s expected to stay on a path westward and move into the Gulf early next week.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 19 Aug. 2023
• Yevhen sent his wife and two children westward to safety.
  — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2022
• Nazi racial policies after 1933 drove a wave of Jewish refugees westward to Britain and the United States.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2023
• The sun has been the enemy of travelers since the first person had to head westward in the afternoon.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 17 July 2022
• Gusty winds will continue to blow Thursday and extend westward to the Coast Range.
  — oregonlive, 17 Nov. 2022
• Back then, the long journey westward was just a means of occupying our time after the sun went down.
  — WIRED, 14 June 2023
• The Vietnamese army had pushed what remained of the Khmer Rouge westward into the forests near Thailand, where there was still heavy fighting.
  — Chantha Nguon, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2024
• The southeast Alabama district will stretch westward across the state.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2023
• The Detroit Red Wings turn westward on a note both unhappy and hopeful.
  — Detroit Free Press, 1 Jan. 2024
• Even as the war has raged for more than two months, gas from Russia has continued to flow westward, much of it via pipelines in Ukraine.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 12 May 2022
• Javier was moving northwest at 10 mph and was expected to pick up speed and turn westward over the coming days.
  — CBS News, 2 Sep. 2022
• The storm is moving westward at 15 miles per hour, with maximum sustained winds of around 45 miles per hour.
  — Aditya Jain, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
• Tuesday could warm into the mid-to-upper 80s as a ridge of high pressure centered over the Rockies and Great Plains edges westward.
  — oregonlive, 28 July 2023
• The plan calls for rapid buses on Carroll Canyon Road, which would be extended westward.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2022
• The intentional turning of the aircraft westward, off course, was done by someone at the controls of the aircraft.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2023
• Of course no one can predict how many people in Ukraine may head westward if an invasion takes place.
  — Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
• Cornelius separated his cupped hands and the tiny owl launched westward.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2022
• The state was founded by white men who were determined to expand slavery westward — the conflict that sparked the Civil War.
  — Jaden Edison, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Aug. 2022
• ConocoPhillips is Alaska’s largest crude oil producer and is leading the push westward across the reserve.
  — Joshua Partlow, Anchorage Daily News, 27 June 2022
• The first location opened in Dallas seven years ago; this Fort Worth store is the duo’s nod to the need westward for such tolerable fare.
  — Anna Caplan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
• Russian troops captured Avdiivka 12 days ago and the front line has shifted westward, threatening the next Ukrainian farms and villages that lie in their path.
  — Oleksandr Chubko, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024

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westward

2 of 2 noun

• There has been a slight westward shift in the forecast track this morning for the first 24-36 hours.
  — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 6 Oct. 2020
• Irma began its 12-day westward march from the African Coast on Aug. 29.
  — Charles Rabin and Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 10 Sep. 2017
• Erring on the side of caution, the NHC shifted its projection westward and is keeping a close eye on the storm.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Sep. 2021
• Engel went on to be appointed to partner in the 1980s and was tasked with moving the agency westward.
  — Dave Brooks, Billboard, 2 Sep. 2020
• Al-Mesmari said forces are chasing the militias, led by Ibrahim Jadhran, westwards.
  — Washington Post, 21 June 2018
• The hurricane center said an area of low pressure could form next week over the northern Gulf and drift westward.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 25 June 2022
• The largest planets of our solar system will follow each other westward across the night sky.
  — Derek Van Dam, CNN, 4 July 2020
• The story of westward expansion soon gave way to the show’s centerpiece: the battle between North and South.
  — Aisha Harris, Slate Magazine, 24 Aug. 2017
• Julia was in the southern Caribbean on a path westward.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 8 Oct. 2022
• An intrepid reporter on the first westward stage shared the grim observations made along the 75-mile waterless stretch coming to the Pecos from the east.
  — John MacCormack, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Nov. 2020
• The new areas have a westward-expansion theme with an emphasis on the railroad.
  — Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 June 2017
• The sisters were arrested more than once on their westward journey from New York for doing so.
  — Erica Pearson, Star Tribune, 7 Aug. 2020
• The spread westward signals more growth in a city that its leaders rank among the top destinations in America.
  — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 6 May 2021
• Averaging 10 miles a day, nine men completed the westward run and were welcomed as heroes by the Dutch.
  — Daniel Ford, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018
• However, a slight westward shift in the storm track would result in a more impactful snow event for western IA and eastern NE.
  — Judson Jones and Monica Garrett, CNN, 12 Jan. 2022
• Cold air could also bring light snow down from the lower Great Lakes and in westward-facing terrain from the central Appalachians.
  — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 20 Nov. 2021
• One of the highlights is the new entrance into the arch, a light-gathering disk with a westward facing crescent entryway.
  — Gary Garth, USA TODAY, 29 June 2018
• Storms generally move east to west because of trade winds in the tropics, so a greater westward shift usually puts them closer to where the land is, Wang said.
  — Seth Borenstein, Star Tribune, 28 Jan. 2021
• The twilight of the tsarist era had seen a flowering of creative religious thought in Russia and this movement shifted westwards.
  — The Economist, 9 Sep. 2019
• Beijing also sees Iran as a vital notch in its Belt and Road project to spread Chinese influence and commerce westwards.
  — Tim Lister, CNN, 8 May 2018
• Officials along the Gulf Coast had believed they would be spared the worst of the assault until the storm’s trajectory took an unfavorable westward bounce late in the week.
  — Frances Robles, Lizette Alvarez and Vivian Yee, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2017
• Again, that was a decade ago and the Pac-12 is in a much worse position now after the Scott era but expect there to at least be feelers about whether Texas’ previous westward preferences still linger.
  — John Talty | [e-mail], al, 22 July 2021
• Cold air moving westward will lower snow levels to 500 feet Wednesday, but with only clear skies expected, no snow is in the forecast.
  — oregonlive, 7 Nov. 2022
• And so now these thousands trek westwards, towards the relative safety of neighboring Bangladesh.
  — Euan McKirdy, Rebecca Wright and S.saeed, CNN, 1 Sep. 2017
• Fourteen of them are in Arizona, with Rick's entrepreneurial nature leading to the westward spread.
  — Katherine Fitzgerald, The Arizona Republic, 6 July 2020
• The additional plasma gives those powerful westward winds more to push through, which could produce a heating spike.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 June 2021
• Indeed, there was a slight westward shift in the National Hurricane Center's official track during the overnight hours.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2017
• There are several places on our westward-facing exterior wall where the plaster on the inside wall bubbles up.
  — Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2021
• The westward blowing of older ice from north of Greenland last winter may be a continuation of a troubling pattern that was noticed in 2020.
  — New York Times, 22 Sep. 2021
• But now, a different kind of westward migration is underway, as Eastern forests in the US have showed surprising signs of shifting westward over the past few decades as well.
  — Weston Williams, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 May 2017

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