: westward direction or part
sail to the westward
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Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
The crowd began moving westward on the boulevard, led by a white van with half a dozen people on top chanting into a microphone and megaphone.
—Ashley Ahn, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2024
The Milwaukee's career shifted in 1880 with the expansion of the locks at the Welland Canal and the growth of the railroad system westward, rendering the vessel inefficient.
—Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2024
Intermittent damage is likely to have occurred between Alta Vista and Dwight, just south of I-70, which continues westward from Kansas City through Topeka and then all the way west through Denver.
—Naomi Schanen, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
Main Street remained a fire scene and was closed to vehicle traffic indefinitely, while a small stretch was reopened to visitors from the library westward to Poco Restaurant and Market and Cafe Cornucopia.
—Kira Caspers, The Arizona Republic, 16 Feb. 2024
Military radar captured it veering dramatically off its intended path, heading westward, before the signal was lost.
—Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 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
By the end of the 2000s, via ferratas had begun pushing westward, with a handful of routes, including the Telluride Via Ferrata, emerging on private land in the Rocky Mountains.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2023
The rest congregated, checked in with team leaders, and hopped into an assortment of cars bound for various points along the winding westward route that ultimately leads to the Tanglewood gate in Lenox, 150 miles away.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
Is midtown’s westward shift likely to be decisive enough to justify reorienting the whole station, or would the HOK/PAU design merely wind up proffering an extravagant back door?
—Curbed, 28 June 2023
And last week, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control warned that the Aedes albopictus species – which can transmit dengue and chikungunya – is pushing northwards and westwards in Europe as climate change grips the world’s fastest warming continent.
—Laura Paddison, CNN, 29 June 2023
The hurricane was moving west near 17 mph and a general westward to west-northwestward motion was forecast through Friday – followed by a general westward to west-southwestward motion.
—Julia Musto, Fox News, 19 Aug. 2021
Where the Saudis once shipped their oil westward, their biggest customer today is China.
—Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2023
Fears that Europe could run low on natural gas this winter eased, sending fuel prices lower, after Russian President Vladimir Putin told Gazprom PJSC to ship more gas westward.
—Joe Wallace, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2021
To compensate for the visual gap left at the commanding southwest corner of the building, seven statues were shifted one pedestal westward, leaving Zoroaster in the place of Muhammad.
—Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2023
Adverb or adjective
Scholars have been wondering, what was the star westward from the pole?
—Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
The crowd began moving westward on the boulevard, led by a white van with half a dozen people on top chanting into a microphone and megaphone.
—Ashley Ahn, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2024
The Milwaukee's career shifted in 1880 with the expansion of the locks at the Welland Canal and the growth of the railroad system westward, rendering the vessel inefficient.
—Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2024
Intermittent damage is likely to have occurred between Alta Vista and Dwight, just south of I-70, which continues westward from Kansas City through Topeka and then all the way west through Denver.
—Naomi Schanen, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
Main Street remained a fire scene and was closed to vehicle traffic indefinitely, while a small stretch was reopened to visitors from the library westward to Poco Restaurant and Market and Cafe Cornucopia.
—Kira Caspers, The Arizona Republic, 16 Feb. 2024
Military radar captured it veering dramatically off its intended path, heading westward, before the signal was lost.
—Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 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
By the end of the 2000s, via ferratas had begun pushing westward, with a handful of routes, including the Telluride Via Ferrata, emerging on private land in the Rocky Mountains.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
Noun
Tuul & Bruno Morandi/Getty Images For centuries, traders journeyed along the ancient Silk Road, weaving westwards from China to Iran and Turkey, sharing their stories and cultures alongside textiles, tea, and perfume.
—Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2023
The rest congregated, checked in with team leaders, and hopped into an assortment of cars bound for various points along the winding westward route that ultimately leads to the Tanglewood gate in Lenox, 150 miles away.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
Is midtown’s westward shift likely to be decisive enough to justify reorienting the whole station, or would the HOK/PAU design merely wind up proffering an extravagant back door?
—Curbed, 28 June 2023
And last week, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control warned that the Aedes albopictus species – which can transmit dengue and chikungunya – is pushing northwards and westwards in Europe as climate change grips the world’s fastest warming continent.
—Laura Paddison, CNN, 29 June 2023
The hurricane was moving west near 17 mph and a general westward to west-northwestward motion was forecast through Friday – followed by a general westward to west-southwestward motion.
—Julia Musto, Fox News, 19 Aug. 2021
Where the Saudis once shipped their oil westward, their biggest customer today is China.
—Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2023
Fears that Europe could run low on natural gas this winter eased, sending fuel prices lower, after Russian President Vladimir Putin told Gazprom PJSC to ship more gas westward.
—Joe Wallace, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2021
To compensate for the visual gap left at the commanding southwest corner of the building, seven statues were shifted one pedestal westward, leaving Zoroaster in the place of Muhammad.
—Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2023
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