Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "came west"

  • He took up the profession of teaching and in 1885 he came west to Walla Walla county, after which he was employed as teacher in the Waitsburg schools for two years.

  • On reaching man's estate he began farming on his own account and cultivated rented land in Scott county, Iowa, until 1881, when he came west to Washington.

  • In 1878 he came west, making his way first to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to which point he traveled by rail, and thence continued the journey through to Walla Walla by wagon and team.

  • My wife owned a thoroughbred when we came West.

  • Just before I came West to scout the Indians off the map, Jim came back to school one time so unlike himself that I made him tell me what was the matter.

  • I came West on account of heart action and some pulmonary necessities.

  • After residing for one year in Minnesota he came west to Washington in the fall of 1888 and spent the succeeding winter and spring in Tacoma.

  • During his youth he served an apprenticeship to the printer's trade and in 1854 he came west with a brother by way of the Isthmus of Panama, their destination being Portland, Oregon, in the vicinity of which a third brother lived.

  • He continued his residence in his native state until 1880, when he came west to Walla Walla county, Washington, and took up his abode upon a farm near the present home of his son John.

  • He carried on general agricultural pursuits in Grundy county for three years and in 1884 he came west to Washington, settling in Dayton, where he spent two years as a farm hand, working for wages.

  • I came west to locate a gold mine, but instead of my finding one these gypsy women found me starving in the desert and took care of me.

  • It wasn't much, because I came west to earn a fortune, not to spend one, but it was all I had.

  • Colter was a pretty good name to select when he came west, since a man named Colter happened to be one of the first settlers in Wyoming.

  • Mr. Vail, the second merchant in Stillwater, came West in 1844.

  • After receiving a fair education, he came West, and in 1845 settled in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, where he at once entered upon the occupation of a lumberman.

  • It was the first thing I did when I came West.

  • When she died I came West, where no one knew me.

  • When your mother died and you came West it sort of wiped out the little there was between me and the living.

  • I came West to keep from dying of consumption in sight of the indifferent mob for whom I had sacrificed myself.

  • Well, I got along fairly well before you came West, but I'd be an awful liar if I denied I didn't get lonely for you and your letters.

  • Glenn Kilbourne, I told you why I came West to see you," she said, spiritedly.

  • But I came West to see you--to tell you this--and to ask you.

  • Wream and I made a compact before I came West.

  • After we came West he sent me just one letter in which he said Vincent would never speak to me nor claim me as his sister again.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "came west" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    came aboard; came alongside; came and; came around; came ashore; came away; came close; came down; came face; came first; came forth from the; came into; came out; came round; came running; came straight; came suddenly; came thither; came through; enclosed land; except for; full sight; mechanical inventions; motor nerves; priest named; you again