How to Use westbound in a Sentence

westbound

adjective
  • Traffic in the westbound lane is backing up.
  • Pullen said three westbound lanes and two eastbound lanes are now open.
    — Jim Ryan, OregonLive.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Both the eastbound and westbound lanes are closed as crews work to clear the street.
    — Michael Williams, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2021
  • All westbound lanes were then reopened.
    — Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Police said that the car was driving westbound through a green light at the time.
    — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2025
  • The street’s westbound lanes reopened later in the night.
    — Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The person crossed the tracks and was hit by a westbound freight train, police said.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 30 Nov. 2025
  • The big rig struck a guardrail and overturned, blocking both westbound lanes.
    — Sacbee.com, 23 June 2026
  • The crash closed the westbound lanes of I-480 for more than two hours.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 22 Oct. 2021
  • This time the crash is on the westbound side of the Interstate.
    — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The crash left a semi on its side across the westbound lanes of the interstate.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The crash shut down the westbound lanes of the highway for several hours.
    — Matt Campbell, kansascity, 20 Feb. 2018
  • The freeway's westbound lanes are also closed.
    — Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The eastbound and westbound right-turn lanes on Greenway are open.
    — Alyssa Stoney, azcentral, 15 Nov. 2019
  • The first crashes happened in the westbound lanes of the highway.
    — Sandra E. Garcia, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2019
  • In an update, the agency said that one westbound lane had reopened.
    — Kansas City Star, 1 May 2026
  • Dashcam footage shows the light is red, but westbound traffic appears to be stopped.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 June 2026
  • All three westbound lanes were closed in the wake of the crash, snarling the afternoon commute.
    — Jason Green, Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Driving along the westbound lanes of the bridge, the lights themselves barely showed.
    — Nathan Hurst, WIRED, 30 July 2012
  • Both east- and westbound traffic was closed for most of the day as tow trucks cleared vehicles.
    — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • One was found dead in the eastbound lanes of the six-lane road, and the other was found dead in the westbound lanes.
    — Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Callan’s vehicle flipped over and landed in the westbound lane.
    — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The second phase will add westbound lanes, officials said.
    — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Two semis crashed in the westbound lanes of I-70 near Deer Trail.
    — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The road’s eastbound sides were shut down, and one lane was getting by on the westbound side in the morning rush hour.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The vehicles were eastbound in the westbound lanes.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The westbound Jupiter Road entrance ramp will also be closed.
    — Hedija Spahalic, Dallas Morning News, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The westbound portion of the freeway will remain closed through the weekend.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022
  • The car crashed head-on with a tractor-trailer that was going westbound towards the state line.
    — Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 8 May 2026
  • Val Vista Drive off-ramp as well as the westbound Gilbert Road off-ramp.
    — Joshua Bowling, The Arizona Republic, 10 Dec. 2021

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