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Example sentences for "west direction"

  • On attempting to steer close round Cape Hay we were obliged to desist and to pass round a reef that extended from it in a North 1/2 West direction to the distance of four leagues.

  • Impossible to cross it here, so I shall follow it up in a west-south-west direction.

  • He mustered courage to let go one hand, and emphatically snapping his fingers in a north-west direction, again waved us off.

  • Half a mile from this brought us in a south-east direction to a well-watered creek which we followed up for some distance, but as it took us in a south-west direction we returned and followed it down.

  • At 11 we made three-quarters of a mile along the bank of the river in a south-west and by west direction.

  • We proceeded in a south-west direction, which carried us across the sources of the Maramec and Gasconade.

  • To this smoke Piper had hastened, and when I reached a plain beyond the creek I saw him carrying on a flying conversation with an old man and several gins who were retiring in a north-west direction to a wood about a mile distant.

  • After proceeding some miles on this day's journey our Cudjallagong guide pointed in a west-north-west direction as the way to Oolawambiloa.

  • The object next in importance was the country between me and the Murrumbidgee in a south-west direction.

  • In pursuance of this intention we descended the hill, which was named Farewell Hill, from its being the termination of our journey in a north-west direction, at least for the present, and proceeded up the south bank of the stream.

  • They struck the Nepean higher up, nearer its source than on the former occasion, and remained out seven days, penetrating to a considerable distance in a south-west direction.

  • It ran in nearly a south-west direction to the foot of Mount Lyell.

  • It flows through a deeply-eroded Andean valley in a north-west direction, along the eastern base of the Cordillera of the Andes, as far as 5 deg.

  • It forms part of an intrusive mass which, on the south and west cliffs of the island, has a columnar arrangement and is traversed by dykes of dolerite, most of which run in a north-west direction.

  • All these streams had a westerly course to join the Tawi, which, issuing from a deep valley behind the third range, crossed the open plain in a south-west direction.

  • The western boundary of the primitive rocks, extending on this lake about two hundred and eighty miles, has nearly a north-north-west direction.

  • After travelling about eight miles in a north-west direction, we came upon the Peel, having thus cut off a great bend of the river.

  • He told me the nearest station to us was called Nyngham, Mount Singleton on the chart, in a north-west direction.

  • This peculiar watercourse branches out from the Cooper and runs in a south-south-west direction.

  • We travelled to-day about five miles in a north-north-west direction, and encamped at the creek where Charley and his companion had seen the huts of the natives, which we found deserted.

  • After travelling seven miles, in a north-west direction, we came on a dense Myal scrub, skirted by a chain of shallow water-holes.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "west direction" 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:
    blue vitriol; despite his; dormant state; for twenty; meat offering; must soon; prime necessity; true also; west angle; west extremity; west half; west longitude; west quarter; west side; west tower; west wind; westerly course; westerly wind; western boundary; western coast; western corner; western hemlock; western part; western passage; western side; young widow