Example sentences for: westerly

How can you use “westerly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The capital of Tenerife and the administrative center for the westerly Canaries, Santa Cruz is not a city in which tourists spend a great deal of time.

  • During Henry’s lifetime, Portugal’s caravels sailed beyond the most westerly point of Africa.

  • Nor’ Loch was drained (creating land for today’s Princes Street Gardens), and the Mound was constructed to provide a second, westerly access between the two settlements.

  • They agreed to "sterilize" the airspace along the flight's westerly route so the safety of other planes would not be affected.

  • The Moorish legacy can still be seen in the form of wells and waterwheels, squat white houses, the dark complexions of the people, and in the very name given the region — taken from Al-Gharb, which means “country of the west” (when the Moors conquered the territory, it was the most westerly in the known world).


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