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How to use westerly in a sentence

19 example sentences · adjective, adverb, noun

Westerly means coming from the west; originating in the west. Example: “The prevailing wind in the Roaring Forties is westerly.”

Examples of westerly by meaning

adjectiveComing from the west; originating in the west.

  • a westerly wind
  • a westerly breeze
  • She were a gentle westerly wind yer cursin’.2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe), set in Maine, United States, during...

adjectiveFacing the west; directed towards the west.

  • a westerly course
  • a westerly voyage
  • Tall, blue-eyed, this proud and stubborn Genoese seaman first visited Portugal, proposing his scheme for a westerly voyage in search of the Indies.2002, Jaime Suchlicki, Cuba: From Columbus to Castro and Beyond, Potomac Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 13

adjectiveLocated towards or in the west.

  • the westerly side of the lake
  • The river has its source just on the English side of the Border, at the foot of Peel Fell, the most westerly spur of the Cheviots.1955 September, H. A. Vallance, “The Border Counties Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 594

nounA westerly wind or storm, one blowing or coming from the west.

  • A road that runs due west from Dale passes the village church and Dale Castle, and a footpath continues to Westdale Bay, a sandy beach used by surfers when the westerlies send great rollers crashing in from the Atlantic.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 141

More sentences with westerly

  • The prevailing wind in the Roaring Forties is westerly.From the entry prevailing wind
  • "We ingressed North Vietnam over Cam Pha on a westerly heading," reported Captain Madden.1976, The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia: Aces and Aerial Victories, page 108. From the entry ingress
  • But we now look at the Met's westerly gropings.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 57. From the entry groping
  • The nest breast wobbles in the westerly wind, the day is a grave, its eight black legs atotter under the pall.1999, Robert Wrigley, Reign of Snakes. From the entry atotter
  • At the open water we bore to the westerly shore and started to mountaineer over the hummocks piled on the land.1951, Lord Tweedsmuir, chapter 12, in Hudson’s Bay Trader,, New York: Norton, page 170. From the entry mountaineer
  • The most westerly of the Shetlands, it still officially adheres to the Julian calendar, which is 13 days behind our habitual Gregorian one.2025 November 12, Vitali Vitaliev, “Time travelling”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 68. From the entry Julian calendar
  • However, the cirrus blowoff from the top of the cumulonimbus clouds indicates an easterly component, or less of a westerly component, in the upper troposphere.1974, Skylab 4 Visual Observations Project Report, pages 12-4. From the entry blowoff
  • In Sydney at 9 am, by far the most prevailing wind is a westerly, particularly during the colder two-thirds of the year.1940, Australian Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia No. 33 - 1940, page 49. From the entry prevailing
  • Blue leagues beckoned him, the Humboldt Current helped him north along the western Patagonian shore, fair trade winds sped him westerly when he set his course for the Spice Islands.1976, Ernest Stanley Dodge, Islands and Empires: Western Impact on the Pacific and East Asia, page 3. From the entry Spice Islands
  • Nearly all of the storms which originate in the Cape Verde region first move in a westerly direction over the Atlantic and later recurve in a northerly or northeasterly direction.1934, Ivan Ray Tannehill, The Hurricane, page 6. From the entry recurve

Meaning of westerly

  1. adjective Coming from the west; originating in the west.
  2. adjective Facing the west; directed towards the west.
  3. adjective Located towards or in the west.

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Questions about westerly in a sentence

How do you use westerly in a sentence?
Westerly is used as an adjective, adverb and noun. For example: “The prevailing wind in the Roaring Forties is westerly.”
What is a short sentence with westerly?
“a westerly breeze”
What does westerly mean?
Westerly means coming from the west; originating in the west.

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