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westward

How to use westward in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for westward.

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Start with something you know works, and when you expand, expand westward. Eat small morsels, chew well!

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Quick take

the cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of westward gathered in one view.

noun

the cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees

adjective

moving toward the west; "westbound pioneers"

adverb

toward the west; "they traveled westward toward the setting sun"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for westward.

noun

the cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees

adjective

moving toward the west; "westbound pioneers"

adverb

toward the west; "they traveled westward toward the setting sun"

Example sentences

1

Start with something you know works, and when you expand, expand westward. Eat small morsels, chew well!

2

A westward route to Asia? Senhor Magellan, why should we waste the Crown's treasury, when so many suffer?

3

I'd expect that the westward shift from AD 1 to 1950 had much to do with the growth in the Americas. Afterwards, I'd expect growth in India, China, and Japan moved the center eastward.

4

I can't imagine what its like in LA. In the summer, on a clear day, I can look out my office window westward from the lakefront and see a thick cloud that covers everything past a certain distance.

5

It has an interactive map showing the steady westward march of the center of population along with a map of the states in the union. Another way to waste a few minutes.

6

This dust is blown westward, all the way across Africa, and out over the Atlantic. That dirt—from one small valley in Chad—supplies over 50% of the nutrient-rich dust that helps fertilize the Amazon rainforest.

7

Start with something you know works, and when you expand, expand westward. The popular image of the visionary is someone with a clear view of the future, but empirically it may be better to have a blurry one.

8

A giant chunk of our national mythos is bound up in westward expansion, where in a thinly populated frontier, the cowboy-hero did what he wanted and bowed to no man. Never mind that the era was short and the story more complicated; it's the idea that lives on.

9

Train travel led to a rapid westward expansion of the United States. New farms get established, and new towns crop up to serve them, needing homes and markets to be built, a local newspaper, a local grocer, a local bank, eventually local radio and television stations.

10

In addition to Alibaba itself, the company has some great Chinese e-commerce assets in the form of Taobao and Tmall, and Yahoo could have been a great partner for a westward expansion. Maybe I'm being too ambitious here but I think that was probably the clearest shot they had at doing something which was sustainably profitable.

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From the paper: Typically, the daily declination comprises westward-shifts in the morning and eastward-shifts\nin the afternoon, while the magnetic field is rather stable at night [21,22]. This calls for\nnecessity to test whether the dog alignment is not actually influenced primarily by time of the\nday and most probably by position of the sun on the sky.

12

The glory of movies like "The Social Network" encourage ambitious young hackers like myself to move westward because of Hollywood-crafted fantasies, rather than necessity or convenience. Consequently, meritocracy is diluted.

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V=lR5yWTf2ajE&t=4m33s tl;dw westward expansion in North America meant people were increasingly living in areas without plentiful lobster -> refrigeration and canning made shipping lobster west possible -> lobster was fished heavily to meet demand -> lobster populations declined -> rare lobster means expensive lobster

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This doesn't explain the zigzagging trajectory of the plane after its disappearance: Indeed, soon after MH370 disappeared, reports emerged that recordings of Malaysian military radar returns showed an unidentified track that could correspond to the flight turning left onto a westward course and descending. At the time it was difficult to assess the validity of that claim. It’s been bolstered, however, by a Reuters report earlier Friday stating that Malaysian military radar showed the flight following a course westward over the Malay peninsula and then heading out over the Indian Ocean, passing specific navigational waypoints as it went.

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Or is their punishment that they don't get to join you, banished to a microwave meal at home while everyone else sings and dances and eats grass fed sustainably raised mutton raised in a westward-sloping Polyface-esque agrarian paradise just north of Petaluma, served on a bed of organic microgreens and wilted white kale and drinks low sulfide wine from the Willamette Valley with just a hint of raspberries on the nose and a dry finish with notes of oak and lavender? Or does the 1% you're looking for also not ever make mistakes, and gets along perfectly all the time, just like a real family?

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use westward in a sentence?

Start with something you know works, and when you expand, expand westward. Eat small morsels, chew well!

What does westward mean?

the cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees

What part of speech is westward?

westward is commonly used as noun, adjective, adverb.