westward

The westward expansion of the Republic created huge opportunities for expansion of land ownership.

From the American Dust Bowl, thousands of destitute farm families stream westward.

The fourth wave, from 1892-1924—in which 14 million immigrants journeyed westward—was unprecedented.

For many years its tight-eye forests blocked the westward trek of pioneers and forced them onto the plains to the north.

Winds then blew this cloud westward across the continents, over Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

San Antonio de Bexar lies in a fertile and well-irrigated valley, stretching westward from the river Salado.

Their territory extended 400 miles on the Atlantic coast, and "from the Atlantic westward to the South sea."

With only four hundred followers out of the fifteen hundred he had at the beginning, Poindexter fled westward.

During the night of the 14th, the wind was light from the westward, and we stood off and on to the north of Cassini Island.

During the ensuing night, having a fresh breeze, we stood first to the westward, and afterwards to the south-east.