A portentous cloud ahead growled its thunder and discharged thin rain, while the westing sun shone clear and bright.
It is a puzzle from its north-westing and low level: it is possibly Petherick's Bahr Ghazal.
Likewise, if the ship is moving westward, an allowance must be made for the westing of the ship.
But such a calculation does not take into consideration the easting or westing of the ship itself.
There exist strong currents, which have set us bodily to leeward; the wind, too, has more westing in it, and is driving us down on the land.
But she could not come to and make westingat the same time.
Well, anyway, he had made his westing and fooled God.
The blue headland and the glistening shingle of Drake's Bay to the norrard and the high cliffs of Benita ahead: the land stretching away south, and the light of the westing sun on the distant hills.
A few sharp seconds of glorious action, then silence, and the level sea stretching out unbroken to the track of the westing sun.
Therefore, every mile of westingat 19 degrees south was more than a minute of longitude; for sixty miles were sixty miles, but sixty minutes are sixty miles only at the equator.
Why should I have to change westing into longitude?
Prudence will direct every man when in those high Latitudes to make sure of sufficient Westing to double all the lands before he thinks of standing to the Northward.
It will indeed be highly proper to make sure of a westing sufficient to double all the lands, before an attempt is made to stand to the northward, and to this every man's own prudence will of necessity direct him.
The following wind had been probably slightly east of south-east and too much westing had been made.
In order to move the mountain of flesh a Westing purchase and a "handy-billy" (rope and block purchase) had to be rigged.
In the old days the navigators used to strive as far south as 64 degrees or 65 degrees, into the Antarctic drift ice, hoping, in a favouring spell, to make westing at a prodigious rate across the extreme-narrowing wedges of longitude.
Well, this is running your westing down if anybody should ride up in a go-devil and ask you.
The westing we were making brought us among people who are frequently visited by the Mambari as slave-dealers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "westing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
