WESTWARD in a Sentence

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From the old city of Augusta, a second railroad was extended westward across the state to connect with the new road to Tennessee.

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 Meanings and Examples of WESTWARD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
westward
 n.  the cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees
 ad.  toward the west
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  In transacting business for O'Hara Brothers, he had visited Augusta, a hundred miles up the Savannah River, and he had traveled inland far enough to visit the old towns westward from that city.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  From the old city of Augusta, a second railroad was extended westward across the state to connect with the new road to Tennessee.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  Rhett turned the horse's slow feet westward from Peachtree and the wobbling wagon jounced into the rutty lane with a violence that wrenched an abruptly stifled moan from Melanie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  She struck westward through the dreary March twilight, toward the street where her boarding-house stood.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
5  The citizen of the prairie drifts always westward.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
6  At their flaming head he westward trooped it like that chosen star which every evening leads on the hosts of light.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
7  From the windmill the ground sloped westward, down to the barns and granaries and pig-yards.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
8  One black cloud, no bigger than a little boat, drifted out into the clear space unattended, and kept moving westward.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIX
9  The street was turning into a country road, leading out to the westward; there were snow-covered fields on either side of him.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
10  In the wide land under a tender lucid evening sky, a cloud drifting westward amid a pale green sea of heaven, they stood together, children that had erred.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
11  They were voyaging across the deserts of the sky, a host of nomads on the march, voyaging high over Ireland, westward bound.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
12  I saw her asleep, and went out for a little stroll myself; I walked along the cliffs to the westward, and was full of sweet sadness, for I was thinking of Jonathan.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
13  At Piccadilly Circus I discharged my cab, and walked westward; beyond the Junior Constitutional I came across the house described, and was satisfied that this was the next of the lairs arranged by Dracula.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
14  The Wellington Monument wore a gleaming cap of snow that flashed westward over the white field of Fifteen Acres.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
15  The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
Example Sentence:
1  They travelled in a westward direction.