How To Use Westwards In A Sentence

  • Looking westwards, the land drops slightly at the Hope River gorge and then rises sharply again in Jacks Hill.
  • This national identity had been created by the sensible spirit of business enterprise, linking the provinces like great beads on an iron railroad line, rather than by any evangelical preachment of a Manifest Destiny — manifest only to its Anglo perpetrators — that had hurled the agglutinated United States westwards and then outwards, across all the oceans, where its boy soldiers lost limbs and died. 'The Widows of Eastwick'
  • Edmund and Garrett led the Cavalry westwards a few days later.
  • Yet during my lifetime the pallid harrier has gone from being one of our rarest birds to a reasonably regular visitor, extending its breeding range westwards to Germany and Scandinavia. Birdwatch: Pallid harrier
  • Populations from Scandinavia, the former Baltic States and north-west Russia head south-westwards towards this country.
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  • Eyre thought he was hemmed in by a circular or horse-shoe-shaped salt depression, which he called Lake Torrens; because, wherever he tried to push northwards, north-westwards, eastwards, or north-eastwards, he invariably came upon the shores of one of these objectionable and impassable features. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
  • And the ocean currents tend to drift westwards on the northern side.
  • They're proposing to extend the zone westwards to Kensington and Chelsea but what about the rest of London.
  • Northumbrian expansion westwards led Mercia to make common cause with the Welsh.
  • Economists warn that enormous pressures could build up, forcing people to emigrate westwards.
  • The further north you go (Clare, Galway, Sligo, or westwards towards Kerry) the land becomes stonier and less suitable for multipurpose agriculture. Out of Ireland (3)
  • 'And now,' he was softly saying, 'I take to the road again, holding on southwestwards for many a long and dusty day; till at last I reach the little grey sea town I know so well, that clings along one steep side of the harbour. The Wind in the Willows
  • Furious denials are plentiful, but he may yet again have to turn its gaze south-westwards.
  • The chief points westwards across the wide valley, over a dark ridge, then another. Times, Sunday Times
  • The suburb of Larapinta will expand westwards again this year, first by 30 blocks and ultimately by 260 blocks.
  • The centre of Sinhalese and Buddhist civilization gradually shifted south-westwards, and political power was divided between a number of kingdoms.
  • The latest emissions are currently drifting southwestwards from the volcano but are likely to head back towards Northern Ireland overnight and tomorrow morning. The Times of India
  • I requested that he bring you westwards, that being the direction you were traveling in when we found you.
  • Hidden away in the rear of a wagon they traveled westwards for many miles until they heard the sound of gulls in flight, smelled the salt air and heard the crashing of the surf.
  • Looking north-westwards from the summit, across the fjord-like Loch Etive, lies Beinn Trilleachean with its granite sweep of crags known as the Etive Slabs.
  • It may have been forgotten, given the comical levels of hype and expectation surrounding his move south-westwards, but there is still business to be done on the pitch.
  • The ecoregion is essentially a low desert plain extending from the Arabian Gulf coast westwards and inland towards Dahna, an area of high red-brown dunes rising above the surrounding plains. Persian Gulf desert and semi-desert
  • There are no currents to speak of about here; and as we have run south-westwards before the north-easter, if we run back in an opposite direction before the south-wester, which is not far off now from setting in, why we must arrive pretty nearly at the same point from which we started. Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes
  • During the summer of 1942, Tito's force of 4,000-5,000 fighters moved westwards along a route that followed the German - Italian demarcation line.
  • Think of the Chinese empire expanding southwestwards, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Romans, etc. Michael Brenner: COIN Classic, New COIN, Post-Modern COIN
  • In effect it would help to draw out some of the wealth from the capital northwards and westwards towards the centre of the country. Times, Sunday Times
  • I resigned myself to recline in the squeaky leather upholstery and enjoy the ensuing ride as we thundered westwards along the Antrim autobahn.
  • During the remaining weeks of the war, the Red Army and the Partisans gradually drove the Axis forces north-westwards through Serbia and Croatia until the German surrender of 8 May.
  • If one starts at the terminal site at Bellanaboy, the initial stretch of the haul route is along the R314 south-westwards to the junction with the L1204.
  • They mobilized the smaller gentry and the commons against the traditional, hostile nobles, beat the Comyns at Inverurie, then wheeled south-westwards and beat John of Lorne at Brander in the autumn of 1308.
  • As the bus continues driving westwards the visitor cannot miss the next holy sight - Xinlu Sea.
  • ivan, i am sure you have realised that the majority of the crowds go 'eastwards'. we go kinda 'westwards'" that's one of the reasons why i never mention to friends any of these stuff i have seen cos 'the chances of them knowing it is SLIM. so anyway, that's all the hit me today. got to get back to some revision. drawn at 17: 00 Overthefence Diary Entry
  • In the final phase, in the seventh century, the settlement moved westwards and consisted of more isolated and separate farmsteads.
  • drift the cattle herds westwards
  • I soon reached the northernmost point of the park and started cycling westwards again.
  • In the Daimler speeding westwards, Heather Lawler looked across at her husband. LET NOT THE DEEP
  • He can then grind slowly westwards, picking up centres as the rest fight amongst themselves.
  • Dervaig is around 1hr 20 min drive north-westwards from Craignure, Mull's port for car ferry arrivals from Oban.
  • Continue westwards and you'll come to graceful willows drooping over a moat. Times, Sunday Times
  • To the south-east lay Cyprus and Egypt; to the north, the Dardanelles and the Black Sea; westwards the mainland of Greece and the island of Crete.
  • I was certainly cheered when, near Calf Craig, the binoculars showed a figure dropping westwards off the Cleuch plateau.
  • In effect it would help to draw out some of the wealth from the capital northwards and westwards towards the centre of the country. Times, Sunday Times
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  • But the majority of goods shipped there are for final assembly before being re - exported westwards.
  • As both creep westwards, Uranus shifts from 1. 8° due W (right) of Jupiter tonight to lie 0. 8° (less than two Moon-breadths) NNW of Jupiter on the 19th and 1. 4° NE of Jupiter by the month's end. Jupiter at opposition in September night sky
  • Economists warn that enormous pressures could build up, forcing people to emigrate westwards.
  • The incursions of invading peoples drove the Celtic enamellers westwards to Ireland, where the art of champlevé enamelling enjoyed a late flowering.
  • But why should we look westwards, when we have had our own unforgettable magicians, P.C.Sorcar, for example.
  • Some of the cols must indeed mark formerly active valleys that led westwards and southwards out of the basin prior to active infill, but we have found no evidence that Panorama gorge was shut off by footwall uplift during fault propagation.
  • Tuesday (28) we plyed to the Westwards alongst the shoare, the wind being at Northwest, and as I was about to come to anker, we saw a sayle comming about the point, whereunder we thought to haue ankered. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • In these places are jagged cliffs falling almost vertical to the tide line, sea-scarred headlands defiantly forcing their way westwards, and fallen scree a remnant of aeons of erosion.
  • Continuing our journey westwards, we passed through Vryheid and then turned off the highway once more toward the Blood River.
  • Continue westwards over heathery, grassy terrain at a safe distance from the edge of Canna's highest cliffs.
  • Unfortunately, this battle had become irrelevant, since Guderian was already pushing north-westwards into France.
  • This track is shaped like a rounded cone, or, more often, like a boomerang, with a short arm running north-westwards to its place of turning and a long arm running northeastwards until its force is spent. Plotting in Pirate Seas
  • She had once thought those lines referred to the river Axe, the sacred river that ran through the subterranean chambers and caverns and stalactites of the Cheddar gorge, but she now saw that the Alph of Xanadu was the Severn, and that the sunless sea was Coleridge's prophetic vision of the pewter post-nuclear wasteland of this estuary, spreading out westwards in the post-nuclear future towards the metallic fish-free Atlantic. Margaret Drabble | Trespassing
  • I decided to walk westwards along West Vancouver's Seawall, a much quieter version than that of Stanley Park.
  • The area is drained by several major rivers: the Welland and the Nene which flow north-eastwards to the Wash; the Avon running south-westwards to join the Severn; and the Sence running north to join the Trent.
  • And the ocean currents tend to drift westwards on the northern side.
  • But as the disease spreads westwards, the concern about possible human infection has grown.
  • These colonization directions included: (i) southwestwards, with a relatively gradual range expansion during suitable periods in Western Europe; and (ii) northeastwards, with a more irregular expansion in Central and Eastern Europe. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • And they've put together a golf trail stretching from Edzell down to St Andrews and stretching westwards as far as Perth and Blairgowrie.
  • The paved road continues westwards past the main temple gate and connects with the road network of the upper town.
  • Winter anticyclones usually build westwards from Scandinavia and Eastern Europe.
  • Their path westwards can still be traced by the chain of distinctive buildings they erected on their way across.
  • A huge fireball erupted from the aircraft as it careered 400 metres westwards along the road, crushing cars and setting them ablaze. Times, Sunday Times
  • Two later prehistoric hillforts stand on the edge of a steep slope with magnificent views westwards.
  • There I spent some comfortable days, sleeping much, having myself read to, mostly from the private letters of the Emperors, and from the Anticatones of the Divine Julius; and, from the balcony of the ante-room enjoying the splendid view southwestwards, over the Circus Maximus, the lower reaches of the Tiber and the Campagna, for my apartment was on that side of the Palace and high up. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire
  • The avian flu is believed to have moved westwards into central and western Europe as more than 15,000 mute swans fled an unusually cold spell in the Black Sea region.
  • To the seaward, that is from the smaller harbour westwards, Sebastopol and its approaches were thoroughly fortified. A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878
  • The ancient traveler leaving China along this road would pass through Dunhuang before braving the many hazards of the journey westwards through East Turkestan (present-day Xinjiang).
  • The EU estimates that about 370,000 of those could migrate westwards in search of work.
  • As it was, we but touched the waters of the north and south branches, and striking southwestwards availed ourselves of the American railway lines in Montana for our return. Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses
  • The following three years as a PoW ended with a gruelling forced march westwards across Germany. Times, Sunday Times
  • At mag -2.8 to -2.9 and edging westwards in Aries, it rises in the ENE as the night begins and is highest at some 50° in the S four hours after our map times. Starwatch: The October night sky
  • I'm coming to the end of a run of work I have been doing for the BBC and I'll be heading westwards again before the end of the month.
  • Moving westwards below Leo's rear, it brightens from mag -0.6 to -1.2 and improves from 12 to 14 arcsec in diameter. Starwatch: The February night sky
  • The road running westwards through the ramparts led to Chelmsford.
  • He turned back to the stream and began to follow it westwards once again, still holding the bell and muttering complaints. ABHORSEN
  • Poor Barrymaine's star is set and mine is setting -- westwards, sir -- my bourne is the far Americas, The Amateur Gentleman
  • The same month Roosevelt approved King's proposals for a Pacific offensive, a strategy summed up by King as: hold Hawaii; support Australasia; drive north-westwards from the New Hebrides.
  • The farther you go southwestwards, however, the more refinement you meet with, because the climate is more temperate, and accordingly there they have cities and temples dedicated to their idols, in which they sacrifice men and afterwards eat them. The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest
  • This they sold, and "trekked" westwards to Indiana. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6
  • The frontier ran roughly north-westwards from London into the north-west midlands; Guthrum was to withdraw with his troops behind this line, where he was to be recognized as king of an independent kingdom.
  • Looking westwards into the distance from the mountain pass, a vast expense of sapphire blue water lies ahead, a first glimpse of Namtso Lake.
  • ` And now, 'he was softly saying, ` I take to the road again, holding on southwestwards for many a long and dusty day; till at last I reach the little grey sea town I know so well, that clings along one steep side of the harbour. The Wind in the Willows
  • It was the custom of the Norman builders to start building from the easternmost part of the church, as the more sacred part of the structure, and then build westwards; so that probably this foundation-stone, for which diligent search has been made in vain, was in the eastmost wall of the original Norman Lady Chapel -- in fact, the Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Norwich A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See
  • The Patía Valley is a dry pocket surrounded by the cloud forests of the Central and Western cordilleras, and it is dissected by the Patía river, which flows from the Central massif westwards and breaks the Western cordillera to drain into the Pacific ocean. Patía Valley dry forests
  • They were announced yesterday, as the H5N1 strain continued to spread westwards. Times, Sunday Times
  • To the south-east lay Cyprus and Egypt; to the north, the Dardanelles and the Black Sea; westwards the mainland of Greece and the island of Crete.
  • Economists warn that enormous pressures could build up, forcing people to emigrate westwards.
  • Above me, the many constellations passed in a strange, 'noiseless' circling, Westwards. The House on the Borderland: Chapter 15
  • 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. Starwatch: The December night sky
  • A huge fireball erupted from the aircraft as it careered 400 metres westwards along the road, crushing cars and setting them ablaze. Times, Sunday Times

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