westernmost
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of westernmost
Example Sentences
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Soon the family finds itself at the mercy of poor soil, fickle weather and a heartless landlord on “the westernmost scrap of Europe.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Hungary said the law disenfranchised tens of thousands of ethnic Hungarians, who live mostly in Ukraine's westernmost region of Transcarpathia -- part of the former Kingdom of Hungary until the end of World War I.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
Those river systems and their surrounding basins also mark the westernmost and easternmost known distribution limits of the species described in the study.
From Science Daily • Apr. 21, 2026
On New Island, the westernmost island in the archipelago, scientists have uncovered possible evidence of human settlement consistent with the mobile, sea-faring culture of the Yagán.
From Salon • Jun. 19, 2024
Just back from the lip of this chasm, at the Col’s westernmost edge, the tents of Camp Four squatted on a patch of barren ground surrounded by more than a thousand discarded oxygen canisters.*
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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