westering
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of westering
late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; see origin at wester 2, -ing 2
Example Sentences
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“Maybe it’s the classic American westering – keep moving west, keep moving west. This is as far as it goes. This is the edge.”
From The Guardian ● Dec. 19, 2020
The Golden Age shed its westering light over young Toynbee in the guise of a thorough classical training at Balliol, the most intellectual of Oxford's colleges.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the record does reveal an able, hardworking, personally attractive public servant who, with the westering sun of California behind him, is casting a longer and longer shadow across the land.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wyoming has been a favorite haunt of paleontologists for the past century, ever since westering pioneers reported that many vertebrate fossils were almost lying on the ground.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sun was already westering as they rode from Edoras, and the light of it was in their eyes, turning all the rolling fields of Rohan to a golden haze.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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