westwardly
Americanadjective
adverb
Etymology
Origin of westwardly
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Fortunately, the storm stayed far enough off the westwardly curving Georgia coast to spare this region of its full force.
From Washington Times
The claim to a westwardly extension to those seas was thus early asserted, as part, not of Louisiana, but of New France.
From Project Gutenberg
It then took a westwardly direction down Main Street, destroying all the houses to within two doors of the Bank of Louisville.
From Project Gutenberg
The brow of the ridge, two hundred and fifty feet broad where it overlooks the river, widens gradually as it extends westwardly to the forest and ultimately to broad pastures.
From Project Gutenberg
He was going westwardly, and very kindly enquired of me where I was travelling?
From Project Gutenberg
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
