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Example sentences for "west coast"

  • The steamer "Victoria" was to run twice in each month to Twillingate on the north, and to La Poile on the south-west coast, calling at all the post offices en route.

  • Hudson's Bay Company on the north-west coast; and it is inferred that testimony, coming from such a quarter, is doubly in favour of the Company.

  • Gregory went in search of Leichardt, and, thinking he might possibly have reached the north-west coast, took a small party to Cambridge Gulf.

  • He then explored the north-west coast as far as Roebuck Bay, in all about nine hundred miles; of which he published a full and fairly accurate account.

  • The fact of fish being in this creek leads me to think that it does not empty itself into the gum plains, like others lately passed, but that it must flow either into the sea on the north-west coast, or into a lake.

  • There is an uniformity in the habits of West Coast rivers, from the Volta to the Coanza, which is, when you get used to it, very taking.

  • But before I enter into a detailed description of this wonderful bit of West Africa, I must give you a brief notice of the manners, habits and customs of West Coast rivers in general, to make the thing more intelligible.

  • West Coast of Vancouver Island and taken in the Straits, near Victoria.

  • Found throughout the Province, have taken it on West Coast of Vancouver Island in May; also on Queen Charlotte Islands in July, 1895, I took four young birds.

  • Voyage to the South-west Coast of New Holland.

  • He tells us, too, how another Roman general left the west coast of Africa, marched for ten days, reached Mt.

  • A ship, the Jeannette, had been wrecked in 1881 off the coast of Siberia, and three years later the debris from the wreck had been washed up on the south-west coast of Greenland.

  • Everything ends at last, and, having spent ninety-six days out of sight of land and sailed some four thousand five hundred miles, they drifted on to the south-west coast of Africa.

  • Heights of Stations, West Coast of Africa, computed from Observations made by Captain Burton IV.

  • Heights of Stations, West Coast of Africa, Computed from Observations Made by Capt.

  • On the north-west coast of America, they barter with the savages all kinds of European trifles for the beautiful skin of the sea-otter, which they sell for a high price in China.

  • Sharpe, occur about the north-west coast of Hudson Bay in summer, and doubtless both breed there.

  • Report on the Doobaunt, Kazan and Ferguson Rivers, and the North-West Coast of Hudson Bay, and on two overland routes from Hudson Bay to Lake Winnipeg.

  • At the close of the evening of the 10th the Daedalus storeship anchored in the cove, from the north-west coast of America.

  • The Fairy was to proceed from this place to the north-west coast of America, where the master hoped to arrive the first for the fur market.

  • During their stay in Botany Bay, they set up the frames of two large boats which they brought out from Europe, to replace those they lost at Maouna, and on the north-west coast of America.

  • And this was not the first misfortune that those ships had met with during their voyage; for on the north-west coast of America, they lost two boats with their crews, and several young men of family, in a surf.

  • In five days we reached Dilli, which is a Portuguese settlement on the north-west coast of Timor.

  • Four days after we had so providentially escaped from the Sooloo pirates, we sighted Cape Sink, on the north-west coast of Borneo, some way to the southward of which was the river whence the Dyaks had been captured.

  • At that time the trade with the Indians for furs on the "north-west coast" was carried on extensively from Boston.

  • Proceeding around Cape Horn, they entered the Pacific Ocean, and on reaching the north-west coast, anchored in some of the bays and harbors north of Columbia River.

  • From the bridge we got a fine view as our guns were being focused on and about the north-west coast.

  • Their landing was to have taken place on the North-west coast of the Southern part of the Peninsula, opposite Kilid Bahr.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "west coast" 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:
    around him; black crape; built about; call upon; comparison with; intrenched camp; much service; west and; west angle; west corner; west direction; west extremity; west from; west half; west quarter; west tower; west wind; west wing; westerly course; western boundary; western extremity; western frontier; western hemlock; western passage; western portion; western yellow