How to Use west in a Sentence

west

1 of 3 adverb
  • They live just west of here.
  • They drove west after they got off the highway.
  • Then west of us two more toms made the hills ring.
    — Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Go west and proceed to the stop sign.
    — Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The driver fled west from the scene.
    — Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Turn west and go four miles to the south park entrance.
    — R. Scott Rappold, Denver Post, 1 June 2026
  • The storm is moving west at 24 mph.
    — Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The wreck happened just west of the Kipling off-ramp.
    — Logan Smith, CBS News, 23 May 2026
  • In those days, Ficke lived west of I-25.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The men returned to the boat, which headed west.
    — David Smiley, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The city is about 50 miles west of Fort Worth.
    — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
  • This was Wole’s first trip west of Georgia.
    — David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Unlike some of the parks out west, there is no outdoor bathing in the hot springs.
    — Caroline Eubanks, Travel + Leisure, 11 May 2026
  • The plant is about 60 miles west of Nashville.
    — Jonathan Limehouse, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Lena is about 120 miles west of Chicago.
    — Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The home is about 145 miles west of Charlotte.
    — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Like this year, the Reds will make two trips out west in the last six weeks of the season.
    — C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
  • And yet the pioneers kept heading west for decades.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Logan still lives in his childhood home, just a few yards west of the cemetery.
    — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 June 2026
  • The Hawks ended their trip out west not with a bang but with very much a whimper.
    — Lauren Williams, AJC.com, 16 Jan. 2026
  • As areas west of the spillways began to flood, king tides pushed in from the ocean.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 23 May 2026
  • Winds will blow west to southwest at 10 mph with gusts as high as 20 mph.
    — Garfield Hylton, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 June 2026
  • Winds are blowing west to northwest at 5 to 10 mph.
    — Garfield Hylton, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 June 2026
  • Winds are blowing west to northwest at speeds of 5-10 mph.
    — Garfield Hylton, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 May 2026
  • The driver was heading west on Pitkin Ave.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The suspects then ran west on Wyatt Drive.
    — Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2026
  • That's when the person who called told deputies that there were more trash bags located west of the area.
    — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The gunman fled west on Adam Street, police said.
    — Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The dryline where the storms will develop is hundreds of miles west of our area.
    — Lauren Bostwick, CBS News, 18 May 2026
  • It's called the Six-Mile drainage creek just west of Brookings.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 24 Mar. 2026

west

2 of 3 adjective
  • If west, much milk and fish in the sea.
    — Brandi D. Addison, Cincinnati Enquirer, 31 Dec. 2025
  • The trailhead is on the west side of the lot.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The trail connects the east and west sides of town.
    — Olivia Young, CBS News, 19 June 2026
  • Here’s when the west side crossing will be open.
    — Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Expect west winds of about 6 mph.
    — Megan Vaz, Sun Sentinel, 29 May 2026
  • Fred’s moved to the west side in 2022.
    — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 May 2026
  • There are some good water areas there on the west side.
    — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Try somewhere with a view of both the east and west horizons.
    — Alyssa Andrews, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • All but one of the 19 deaths from the fire occurred on the west side.
    — Tony Saavedra, Daily News, 17 Jan. 2026
  • That typically means on the south or west side of your home.
    — Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026
  • The west side will not be ready for public traffic by mid-April.
    — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The west side of the reservoir is currently the best place to spot the trees.
    — Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Walker lived in a house on Clay Street on the west side of the city.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The furthest west lot is about one acre and would be the first lot to get developed.
    — Linda Girardi, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The east and south sides of streets got odd numbers; north and west sides of streets got even numbers.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
  • For long-term problem solving, plant trees that will grow to shade the south and west sides of a house.
    — Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Overnight lows should be around 33 degrees with west winds from 3 to 7 mph.
    — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 14 Nov. 2022
  • And Israel is doing the north and west part of the country.
    — Haley Ott, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2026
  • People at the beaches have a lot more leeway than people on the west side.
    — Becky Wern, Florida Times-Union, 7 Mar. 2026
  • The west side of the fire was the most active Friday morning.
    — Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Better rain chances will be for areas west and south of the Metroplex.
    — April 20, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Previously, plans called for it to be built on the west side of the highway.
    — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 19 July 2023
  • On Sunday, the city’s west side received a skiff of snow, while more fell on the east side.
    — Lucas Daprile, cleveland, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Kate's surprise visit came after a busy day across west Wales.
    — Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 4 Feb. 2026
  • What will the weather be in west Michigan this weekend?
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The trail would be on the west side of the street and then cross over, just south of Pat’s Liquors.
    — Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Slides showed a complex with seven stories on the west side and six stories on the east side.
    — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Washington was standing on the west edge of a sitting area.
    — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Jan. 2026
  • On the west side, another shows the homecoming of the troops at the war's end.
    — Bill Steiden, Des Moines Register, 24 Mar. 2026
  • This is a west-coast groundcover that resembles a large clover with pink to white blooms.
    — The Spruce, 30 June 2026

west

3 of 3 noun
  • There's a beautiful pond to the west of the trail.
  • If that way is east, then this way is west.
  • We will be traveling into the city from the west.
  • Floods have caused extensive damage in the West.
  • Come explore the natural wonders of the American West.
  • The front yard faces west; the back, east.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2026
  • As did the block to the west, and the block to the east.
    — Katherine Packert Burke, Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Then, in the west, the air began to spin.
    — Kansas City Star, 22 May 2026
  • Today, the sun will rise due east and set due west.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Winds will be out of the west at 5 - 10 mph.
    — Ron Smiley, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Expect west winds of about 8 mph.
    — Megan Vaz, Sun Sentinel, 29 May 2026
  • Expect west winds of about 7 mph.
    — Megan Vaz, Sun Sentinel, 29 May 2026
  • Snow wasn't much of an issue to the north or to the west.
    — Aki Nace, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • To the west, there was a coat of fresh snow on the mountain peaks.
    — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Last seen on a game camera west of Leakey.
    — Mirna Alsharif, NBC news, 26 June 2026
  • The breeze will build out of the west with gusts up to 20 mph.
    — Lissette Gonzalez, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Expect west winds of about 16 mph.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2026
  • This list is almost like the wild, wild west of music.
    — Tracy Smith, CBS News, 28 June 2026
  • Rain moves in from west to east this afternoon and evening.
    — Rachael Jay, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Winds will turn out of the west and northwest behind the front.
    — Mary Wasson, Austin American Statesman, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Mars will be visible in the west.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
  • There are two entrances, on the west and east sides of the building.
    — Mars Salazar, Austin American Statesman, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The squabbling brothers of the north west.
    — Ian Irving, New York Times, 3 May 2026
  • But for now, when night falls, the west of the island goes quiet.
    — David Culver, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Wind out of the south-west, different from last time, steady and cool.
    — Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The king tides were just as high or higher than the flood waters to the west.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 23 May 2026
  • Human trade brought the mushroom west.
    — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 15 Apr. 2026
  • That's less the case at the second store, 20 some miles to the west.
    — Patricia Gallagher Newberry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Set it about a foot away from an east-, south-, or west-facing window.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Winds will be out of the west this afternoon at around 5 mph.
    — Ron Smiley, CBS News, 4 June 2026

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