Examples of westbound in a Sentence
Traffic in the westbound lane is backing up.
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One person died Monday morning in Denver after rear-ending a Regional Transportation District bus on Interstate 70, shutting down the westbound highway for hours.
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Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 15 Sep. 2025
Detour by using the I-43 southbound/I-894 westbound exit ramp to 76th Street and West Layton Avenue.
—Cailey Gleeson, jsonline.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The Blue Water also departs from Chicago and travels westbound to Kalamazoo, Battle Creek and East Lansing, Michigan, with intermediate stops before reaching Port Huron.
—Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 8 Sep. 2025
The suspects then ran westbound on Alum Rock Avenue over the Highway 101 overpass and continued northbound on North 27th Street through a fast-food eatery parking lot.
—Jason Green, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
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Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 15 Sep. 2025
Detour by using the I-43 southbound/I-894 westbound exit ramp to 76th Street and West Layton Avenue.
—Cailey Gleeson, jsonline.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The Blue Water also departs from Chicago and travels westbound to Kalamazoo, Battle Creek and East Lansing, Michigan, with intermediate stops before reaching Port Huron.
—Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 8 Sep. 2025
The suspects then ran westbound on Alum Rock Avenue over the Highway 101 overpass and continued northbound on North 27th Street through a fast-food eatery parking lot.
—Jason Green, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Westbound.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/westbound. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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westbound
adjective
west·bound
ˈwes(t)-ˌbau̇nd 
: going west
a westbound train
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