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Example sentences for "westbound"

Lexicographically close words:
wesh; weshed; weskit; wesna; west; weste; wester; westering; westerlies; westerly
  1. A placed road-engine, waiting for the conclusion of the car sorting, told him that the next train to leave the yard would be a westbound freight.

  2. Spike it, George, and leave every westbound train in siding, with the engine cut loose and plenty of steam, till we get by.

  3. In the morning the yard was nearly cleared of westbound tonnage.

  4. And he remembered clearly the fact of the expected westbound flyer.

  5. If the locomotive smashed into the bumper with force enough to wreck the structure, would some approaching train on the westbound track not be endangered?

  6. One was to catch the blind baggage on the westbound overland that night.

  7. I wanted to take the westbound overland that night.

  8. It's quite late to book, you know; and this is the rush season for westbound traffic; everything's just about full up.

  9. I shall drive on to that tract of Weatherbee's this afternoon; but I expect to take the westbound train to-night, somewhere up the valley.

  10. Some trainmen were getting the injured man aboard the westbound passenger, and the lady who had left the wrecked automobile to go with him sent back a sonorous "Au revoir.

  11. The delay had caused them to miss the westbound evening train; they were forced to drive back and spend the night at Wenatchee.

  12. She turned to take the empty cup, and as she closed the hamper the whistle of the westbound sounded through the gorge.

  13. The station did not keep a news-stand, but a conductor on the westbound had left this for him to read.

  14. Mr. Morganstein was injured, and the others took the westbound home with him, but I decided to board the eastbound and go on by stage to Wenatchee, to see my desert tract, and return by way of the Great Northern.

  15. I remembered that there was a westbound train passing through at midnight, and by hurrying I hoped to be able to catch it.

  16. Be that as it may, a short half-hour later I had boarded a through westbound train and was crouching in the corner of a seat in the overheated smoking-car with a ticket to Denver in my pocket.

  17. And at first the trains of white-topped wagons rivaled the crowded coaches westbound on the rails.

  18. This caravan, like many others of the great assemblage westbound at that time, had great extremes in personnel.

  19. There crowded yet more thickly, up to the line between the certain and the uncertain, the restless westbound population of all the country.

  20. Certainly our westbound civilization never advanced by any steady or regular process.

  21. The whole swift story of all that development, while the westbound rails were crossing and crisscrossing the newly won frontier, scarce lasted twenty years.

  22. Arriving there, she carefully questioned the boys and brought out only one more useless item, that a westbound immigrant train had pulled into the siding to permit an eastbound passenger train to pass them.

  23. He sent out his feelers, he canvassed the offices from which some echo might come, he had Macao searched, and all westbound steamers which he could reach by wireless were duly warned.

  24. The westbound shipments over the lakes were also large and valuable.

  25. The train that leaves Ames westbound is in the open for twenty miles with only schedule rights or a despatcher's tissue between her and the worst of it.

  26. The westbound Overland passenger, Number One, was due to leave Ames at 12.

  27. A westbound freight lay at that moment on the passing track waiting for the mail.

  28. At two o'clock in the morning a fast westbound freight had left the track in Petrolite Canyon, and before they could get the flagman out, a delayed eastbound passenger had collided with the ruins.

  29. Hence there would still be forty-one minutes running time to be divided between the eastbound train and the westbound engine.

  30. The westbound plane leaves Rubio at eleven o'clock and there's no reason to rush the trip over there.

  31. Also, if you'll dig a little further into your envelopes, you'll find reservations for the westbound plane out of Rubio just one week from tonight.

  32. At mile marker 80, yellow caution lights were flashing on all westbound lanes, triggered by Philadelphia Control the instant the word of the crash had been received.

  33. Four small screens, one for each of the westbound lanes, glowed with a soft red light.

  34. More than sixteen thousand westbound vehicles on the thruway in the first one hundred miles; nearly five thousand of them traveling at speeds between one hundred fifty and three hundred miles an hour.

  35. In Car 56, Ben kept the patrol car roaring down the blue lane through the speeding westbound traffic.

  36. More vehicles streamed onto the westbound thruway, crossing over and dropping down into the same lanes they held coming out of the north-south road.

  37. Westbound green was still being rerouted into the slower white lane, around the scene of the accident.

  38. At Corning an eastbound stock train and a westbound freight at Elmira waited for the express.

  39. Tillottson, and the Division Superintendent were together in the Elmira depot on an occasion and learned that the westbound express from New York was four hours late.

  40. The constant westbound movement of construction material made his duties heavier than before, but he seemed able to do whatever work he was assigned to and gained the reputation of being dependable, wherever put.

  41. A passenger alighting in the evening from a westbound train was set upon, robbed, and beaten into insensibility within ten feet of the train platform.

  42. Once in the westbound lane, he headed his plane toward Manhattan and threw his rheostat wide open.

  43. There is no logical reason why they should interlock with east or westbound through rates when the traffic is, perhaps, moving locally north and south.

  44. The principal breach since the sugar wars was a rather persistent and locally interesting disturbance of westbound import rates, precipitated in the spring of 1909 by the Boston & Maine Railroad.

  45. The two new low-grade Pennsylvania freight tracks are used only for slow traffic; largely coal and westbound steel empties.

  46. But during 1900 rate cutting again developed upon a large scale in westbound business.

  47. Some applied only to westbound business, others to eastbound traffic.

  48. As sugar shipments westbound from New York constituted nearly one-third of the total tonnage, the importance of these prosecutions appear.

  49. Owing to difficulties of routing, in order to transport by the shortest line into Chicago, these westbound percentages were often quite different from those in the opposite direction.

  50. But the system worked so well that it was soon extended to cover the westbound business.

  51. Westbound rates were lower and more regular.

  52. This inequality, of course, whetted the appetite of the carriers for back loads to fill the westbound trains, and undoubtedly gave an impetus to rate disturbance.

  53. The prevailing wind on the direct route is almost always from West to East, which favors the Eastbound journey, but is unfavorable to the Westbound journey.

  54. By making the Westbound journey on the Southerly route, via the Coast of Portugal and the Azores, and on 35' N.

  55. With a ship speed of sixty miles per hour, it would be quicker to make the Westbound journey by the direct route if the Westerly wind did not exceed ten miles per hour.

  56. We haven't heard from either the eastbound or the westbound for more than half an hour.

  57. They were well into the foothills of the mountains when Ralph signaled that he was going to start his search for Mitchell, who had been on the westbound ship the night before.

  58. The pilot on the westbound tonight saw a campfire in the timber along one of the lower mountains.

  59. From the heavens came the deep thunder of the motor of the westbound mail.

  60. First thing I heard was the roar of the westbound plane going over and then I saw a whole circle of hungry eyes looking at us.

  61. At eleven-fifty a penetrating whistle came through the night to be followed several minutes later by the blazing headlight of the westbound mail.

  62. The mail was speeding down the right-hand westbound track.

  63. Ralph, eager and alert, took up the trail and soon had lost sight of the wreck of the westbound air mail.

  64. One of them was the westbound ship and the other was eastbound.

  65. It was the westbound transcontinental more than an hour late and its pilots were bringing it in fast in an attempt to make up every minute possible.

  66. Casey found that the westbound train had already gone, which gave him a full twenty-four hours in Lund, even though he discounted his promise to see the Barrymores through.

  67. He sent out his feelers, he canvassed the offices from which some echo might come, he had Macao searched and all westbound steamers which he could reach by wireless were duly warned.


  68. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "westbound" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arctic; boreal; east; easterly; north; northeast; northerly; northern; northwest; northwesterly; south; southeast; southerly; southern; southwest; west; westerly; western