west
[west]
Definition:
1. The cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees.
2. Situated in or facing or moving toward the west.
3. To, toward, or in the west.
Use 'west' in a sentence:
- They had years of experience of trading with the West.
- The Pope had no great sympathy for the secularized West.
- He started with a good holiday in Key West, Florida.
- The vast forests of West Africa have shrunk.
- Arco says 20% of West Coast drivers want leaded petrol.
- Far up the west rim of the canyon, a coyote yipped twice.
- He tried to defect to the West last year.
- He lives to the west of the town.
- The sun was now sinking, a fiery ball of light in the west.
- I was born in Japan, but I've lived in the West for some years now.
- West Virginia was granted statehood in 1863.
- The two West African states had broken off relations two years ago.
- The West Indies were all out for 364.
- Far off to the west the sun was sinking.
- The West is getting a heavy dose of snow and rain today.
- She speaks with a soft West Country burr.
- He was headmaster of a public school in the West of England.
- I pushed on toward Flagstaff, a hundred miles to the west.
- It was quiet now, the thunder had grumbled away to the west.
- The West must back up its verbal support with substantial economic aid.
- We are going west to California.
- The Hebrides are to the west of the Scottish mainland.
- Both nations are seeking closer links with the West.
- I had been planning a trip to the West Coast.
- Moral as well as financial support was what the West should provide.
- He aims to follow Columbus's voyage to the West Indies.
- So we set off again, cursing the delay, toward the west.
- West Berlin always had a large anarchist community.
- Mark has been working in West Africa for about six months.
- Classmates at West Point had ironically dubbed him Beauty.
- It pleased critics but ran for only three years in the West End.
- West Hampstead has a variety of good stores and supermarkets.
- Water is a precious commodity that is often taken for granted in the West.
- This is the only forum where East and West can get together.
- The East and the West can work together for their mutual benefit and progress.
- East and West are still spying on one another.
- Rain is spreading from the west.
- The wind veered to the west.
- Which way is west?
- He also believed in coexistence with the West.
- This room faces west.
- The sun was sinking in the west.
- Kerry is in the extreme west of Ireland.
- We were given an office in the empty west wing.
- West Africa was the pivot of the cocoa trade.
- There is an obvious contrast between the cultures of East and West.
- He sailed for the West Indies from Portsmouth.
- For a beach resort with a difference, try Key West.
- The West is stingy with aid.