Betekenis van:
westwards

westwards
Bijwoord
    • toward the west

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    Voorbeeldzinnen

    1. We traveled westwards for 100 miles.
    2. As the boat sailed on westwards, the captain looked back at how far they had come, and felt a tear prick the corner of his eye.
    3. The waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea and adjacent waters bounded by a line commencing on the coast of Africa at the Algerian/Tunisian frontier running due north to 38o00′ north latitude; thence due west to 8o00′ east longitude; thence due north to 41o20′ north latitude; thence northward along a rhumb line to the mainland coast at the frontier between France and Italy; thence following the coast of Italy to 38o00′ north latitude; thence due west along 38o00′ north latitude to the coast of Sicily; thence following the northern coast of Sicily to Trapani; thence along a rhumb line to Cape Bon; thence westwards following the coast of Tunisia to the starting point.