How to Use western in a Sentence

western

1 of 2 adjective

• Old western movies are my favorites.
• And in western New York, the icy weather was blamed for three deaths in three days.
  — Jonathan Mattise, arkansasonline.com, 19 Jan. 2024
• The room is lined with rich wood, western art, and ranch-style design to give you a sense of place.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 6 Apr. 2023
• Levy was born in Khodoriv, in the Lviv district of western Ukraine, in 1933.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2022
• People beyond the Western Hemisphere are on the move as well.
  — Quinn Owen, ABC News, 21 Dec. 2023
• The western two-thirds of the civic center will be completed late next month.
  — Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 27 Dec. 2022
• More than 40 inches of snow has already fallen in western parts of the state.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2022
• Warnings are now lined up with the storms over western suburbs.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 29 July 2023
• The four-year conversion took place at the yacht’s home shipyard of Damen Maaskant in the western Netherlands.
  — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2024
• The duo, visible in the western sky, will travel down toward the horizon through the night.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2024
• So far, the new species has only been found off the western coast of New Zealand’s North Island.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2024
• Most of the big-ticket grants that were announced on Dec. 5 will fund projects in these and other Western states.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 7 Dec. 2023
• Everyone is welcome at the outdoor church on the western end of the U.S.-Mexico border.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2023
• Phule’s first school for girls was founded in Pune, western India, in 1848.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Aug. 2023
• There could be a few spits of rain early, especially in western parts of the area.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2022
• Per the last slide in her carousel, the 20-year-old actress ditched her pointed western boots for a more comfortable vibe in socks.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 17 July 2023
• The pair continued to show their love during a separate boat ride along the coast of western Italy as well.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 15 July 2023
• Those used to the lush rainforests of western Oregon might be tempted to think there’s little to see on the more arid side of the Cascade Mountains.
  — oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• The campaign was launched in 2022 in the western region of the United States and has since evolved into a global initiative.
  — Paula Soria, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2024
• By 1954, when the state suspended bear hunting, only a small number of animals hung on in the western part of the state.
  — Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 1 Nov. 2023
• At day’s end, a rusty stripe spread across the western horizon, low in elevation, pale in color.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2023
• Renken still shoots sports photos, mostly for local schools in the western suburbs of Cincinnati.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 12 Apr. 2024
• Tacoma, Washington, which has the sparsest tree canopy coverage of any city in the western part of the state, is among the cities scrambling to scale up quickly.
  — Alex Brown, oregonlive, 8 Apr. 2023
• Across western Kansas, water levels in the aquifer have declined in some places by 60 percent.
  — National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
• Visitors are greeted by the gorgeous Kapalua bay, plus views of the nature and mountains of the island’s western tip.
  — Claire Stern, ELLE, 13 Jan. 2023
• That’s a problem with big stakes not just for Russians, but for the whole Western world seeking stability in the region.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 28 July 2023
• Indigenous to parts of western Asia, northern Africa, and southern Europe, this plant has spread to home gardens and markets around the world.
  — Carly Westerfield, Bon Appétit, 9 Mar. 2024
• And as Zahorodniuk and western defense experts believe, tanks will be the decisive arms of choice in the next battle for Ukraine.
  — David A. Andelman, CNN, 26 Jan. 2023
• Fars News, a state news agency, reported at the time wrote that the missiles had been surface-to-surface and added that the location of launch was the western city of Kermanshah.
  — Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 16 Jan. 2024
• The incident comes nearly a decade after another deadly bridge collapse in the western part of the country.
  — Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2023

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western

2 of 2 noun

• The bow is aground on the eastern bank and the stern is on the western.
  — USA Today, 26 Mar. 2021
• Westerns, of course, have been around since the dime novels of the 1840s.
  — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2017
• Boothe is well known for his villain roles and Westerns.
  — Mark Heim, AL.com, 15 May 2017
• Attacks — on the air, in newspapers, through the mail — flew like fists in an old western.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023
• Moving from the western to the eastern end of the bay, the ratio of zucchini to basil in the dish declined (at least to my palate and fuzzy math).
  — Daniel Ford, The New Yorker, 11 July 2022
• This film is pure revenge, and, so, pure western in our opinion.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 23 May 2022
• Greg loved to fish, watch old westerns on TV and was an amazing uncle to his nephews.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 18 Mar. 2018
• As a child Jünger gorged on westerns and penny dreadfuls.
  — Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
• The appeal of the western has certainly rubbed off on Zhao, who’s now immersed in writing one.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• No genre received such varied treatment in 1971 as the western.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2021
• In fact, the modern western is self-aware of chaps-less mis-adventurers.
  — Jordan Calhoun, Men's Health, 2 Nov. 2022
• This six-part western mostly gets the job done as an eccentric, guns-blazing thriller.
  — Leah Greenblatt and Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2022
• Just a few months earlier, the film, a satire of old Hollywood westerns, made waves in the New York Times for its portrait of gay desire.
  — Michael Waters, Smithsonian, 25 June 2019
• In three decades in Hollywood, Neal W. Zoromski has worked on movies big and small but never on a western.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2021
• Sept. 1 will feature westerns and Oct. 6 will belong to horror.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 14 June 2017
• While the service garage location will remain behind city hall, the structure will be moved from the western to the eastern side of the property.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 9 Dec. 2022
• So many westerns are effectively road movies, which is sort of your subgenre.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2023
• Baldwin, 63, who was starring in and producing the low-budget western, didn’t mince words about the incident.
  — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2022
• As long-running series, Star Wars and Star Trek are successful examples of the space western.
  — Ani Bundel, Ars Technica, 11 Nov. 2019
• The 1969 comedic western, about a pair of real-life outlaws, was a box-office blockbuster that made a legend out of the actor and turned the younger Redford into a bankable star.
  — People Staff, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2023
• Bey also shared some snaps from her night out, including sweet car pics with her husband, Jay-Z, who is one of the producers of the Netflix western.
  — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Oct. 2021
• But the frontier was closed, and its memory was already being turned into myth in dime novels, westerns, and Wild West shows.
  — David Treuer, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
• The answer may seem obvious; the western came out just a few weeks ago and is just appearing in Minnesota theaters now.
  — Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 11 Jan. 2021
• The route, which bypassed western Europe to pass over the Norwegian Sea, likely spanned more than seven thousand miles.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Dec. 2018
• Rick is a past-his-peak actor relegated to guest spots playing heavies on TV crime shows and westerns.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2019
• There’s a fast-moving heist movie/Alistair MacLean runaway-train thriller that takes up an early chunk of the film, and the nods to classic westerns are everywhere.
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2018
• This horror western from Ana Lily Amirpour features a vampire preying on men in Iran.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 14 Sep. 2022
• Rogue One mixed elements of espionage thrillers and gritty war movies; Solo looks set to mix up westerns and the good old heist caper.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 Apr. 2018
• From westerns to space operas, weapons are part of popular culture.
  — Jerry Large, The Seattle Times, 25 Jan. 2018
• Sunday California’s high-desert scenery often feels like the backdrop of an old western (in Pioneertown, northwest of the park, a set used for many films of the western genre still stands).
  — Lucky Benson, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023

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