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
But, what with the industrial revolution, the westering course of empire and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, the Senate has seen the virtual extinction of gentlemen in the 19th-century sense of the word.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two savage tramps fall in love with her; detectives pick up the trail and the second act is played in a box car of the westering freight.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week, heeding the call of the westering sun and the social season at Nassau, Freddy and Claude boarded their 104-ton auxiliary schooner Kangaroo, in Tangier and set sail for the Bahamas.
From Time Magazine Archive
The clouds were torn and drifting, and stars peeped out; and above the hills of the Coomb-side the westering moon rode, glimmering yellow in the storm-wrack.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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