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westward

/ˈwɛst.wɚd/ adverb B1
  1. Toward the west. · ride westward.
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“I don’t think that I need intrude upon your time and patience any more.” With a last word of caution that he should say nothing as to our researches, we turned our faces westward once more.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 83 · C1
Because the sun appears to travel westward, noon in Boston arrived roughly twelve minutes earlier than noon in New York, a difference that hardly mattered as long as nobody could travel between the two cities quickly.
The Day the Clocks Changed, p. 1 · C2
The Irish crews primarily built westward from the flat plains of the Midwest.
The Railroad Across America, p. 1 · B2
They packed their meager remaining possessions into heavily overloaded automobiles and initiated an arduous migration westward toward the promise of California.
The Dust Bowl: An Ecological Catastrophe, p. 1 · C1

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