How to Use Westerner in a Sentence

Westerner

noun
  • Chawla told Newsweek that, while many Westerners make chai with syrups and blends, this was not correct.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 2024-11-01
  • The brand’s plain black cotton Westerner transforms sober dark grey or charcoal suits, too.
    — Aleks Cvetkovic, Robb Report, 2021-07-07
  • But its universe is still being imagined, largely, by Westerners.
    — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 2023-06-07
  • Soy milk is curdled in a salty solution but not squeezed or drained like the spongey bricks of tofu familiar to most Westerners.
    — Bradley Hohulin, The Indianapolis Star, 2024-09-27
  • Some critics will tell you that, as Westerners are producing more of this content, a certain purity has been lost.
    — Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 2024-09-05
  • In a videotape of the incident, one of the pilots on the ground is a Westerner speaking English.
    — Helene Cooper, New York Times, 2024-06-05
  • The region is famous for its far lower prices on food, hotels, activities, and excursions than most Westerners are used to.
    — Lindsay Tigar, Travel + Leisure, 2023-04-29
  • The students rarely exhibited the kind of idealism that a Westerner associates with youth.
    — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 2024-04-01
  • Look at our history: Westerners settled here a few hundred years ago with no respect for the indigenous who had a deeper connection to the land.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 2024-05-24
  • But to a Westerner, the sanitation situation is nothing short of amazing.
    — Larry Wilson, Orange County Register, 2024-09-15
  • Unlike other Westerners, the Crooks chose to live on campus, alongside their students and fellow faculty members.
    — Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 2023-08-26
  • Unlike the middle of the global income distribution, the composition of the top has remained much the same over the previous three decades: dominated by Westerners.
    — Branko Milanovic, Foreign Affairs, 2023-06-14
  • One Westerner who supported the bill was President Lincoln, who looked past constitutional qualms to the plain necessity.
    — Roger Lowenstein, WSJ, 2022-03-04
  • Additionally, when studying populations of people who don’t wear modern footwear, researchers rarely if ever find any of the chronic foot conditions that plague the average Westerner.
    — Dr. Ray McClanahan, Outside Online, 2020-10-22
  • But these ties are often mistaken for friendships by Westerners, and frequently turn one-sided in favor of the CCP—absent sufficient leverage.
    — Diane Brady, Fortune, 2024-10-21
  • The story takes us inside Japanese power circles (circa the 1600s) from the point of view of a Westerner named John Blackthorne.
    — Nina Metz, Twin Cities, 2024-01-04
  • And Indonesian music is generally, and not surprisingly, overlooked by Westerners, who would actually find a lot to love in the thriving local music scenes.
    — Keegan Bradford, SPIN, 2024-07-25
  • But even as Chinese athletes in Paris have made further strides in sports traditionally dominated by Westerners, a sense of the injustice and isolation they’ve been forced to overcome continues to loom over Olympic discourse.
    — Koh Ewe, TIME, 2024-08-08
  • Taken to its illogical extreme, Russia is liberating Ukrainians from the degenerate Westerners tricking them into turning against their Russian brothers.
    — Michael S. Neiberg, Washington Post, 2023-06-12

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