How to Use westernmost in a Sentence
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At present, no deck planks remain on the wider, westernmost portion of the pier called the hammerhead.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
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In the coastal town of Klamath, at the westernmost edge of the Yurok Reservation, there are no grocery stores.
—oregonlive, 17 June 2023
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Before the 1960s, only a small portion of what's now the westernmost part of the island existed.
—Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2024
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The westernmost Confederate state of Texas was the last to announce the proclamation.
—Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 18 June 2023
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The company’s plant was outside Lviv in the westernmost part of the country, near the Polish border, one of the safest parts of Ukraine.
—Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
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The westernmost span, a drawbridge at the Miami end of the causeway, was in such bad shape that it was fully replaced in 2016.
—Orlando Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2023
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The current forecast track brings the center of the storm along the westernmost portions of the Houston metro later this morning and early this afternoon.
—Bryce Buyakie, Austin American-Statesman, 8 July 2024
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Catch the restaurant on a slow day, and you may be invited to cook some of the fish yourself while overlooking the cerulean waters rushing across the westernmost point of the African continent.
—Kayla Stewart, Saveur, 30 Oct. 2024
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Historically, the creatures could be found in the state’s westernmost four counties and Montgomery County.
—Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 17 June 2024
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Rajkot District is in central Gujarat, the westernmost state in India and along the border with Pakistan.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 29 May 2025
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The light was the only American lighthouse facing the Bering Sea, the westernmost lighthouse, and one of the most isolated jobs in the country.
—David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2023
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Hugging the coastline, visitors can make their way west to reach Cabo Finisterre, a craggy peninsula that marks one of the westernmost points in all of Spain.
—Jared Ranahan, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
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Currently, the 22-acre property on the westernmost portion of Werk Road is less accessible than the park system would like.
—Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 21 Jan. 2024
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The port of Roscoff, the ferry’s destination, is in the French department of Finistère, in the westernmost part of Brittany.
—Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
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Much of the heaviest snowfall looked set to occur around Maryland and West Virginia, with up to 12 inches predicted in the westernmost part of the former.
—Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
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The causeway is protected as a historic landmark by the cities of Miami, which has jurisdiction over its westernmost two islands, and Miami Beach.
—Orlando Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2023
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The wildfire that sparked Tuesday night, propelled by hurricane winds and fueled by months of drought, swept over the westernmost swath of Maui this week, destroying thousands of buildings and killing an untold number of people.
—Reis Thebault, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2023
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Located along the fabled Wild Atlantic Way, this 30-mile outcrop at the westernmost top of Ireland is home to craggy sea cliffs, rolling hills, and remote beaches.
—Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2023
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Voters in Florida’s First Congressional District, in the westernmost part of the state’s panhandle, seemed largely unfazed by all the stories about him.
—Glenn Thrush, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
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Kona storm to last all week The storm's effects are expected to begin later March 10 with flash flooding risks to Kauai and Oahu, the westernmost Hawaiian Islands, and moisture will spread eastward to the rest of the state through at least March 14, the weather service said.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026
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