How to Use westernmost in a Sentence

westernmost

adjective
  • In the coastal town of Klamath, at the westernmost edge of the Yurok Reservation, there are no grocery stores.
    oregonlive, 17 June 2023
  • The company’s plant was outside Lviv in the westernmost part of the country, near the Polish border, one of the safest parts of Ukraine.
    Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The westernmost span, a drawbridge at the Miami end of the causeway, was in such bad shape that it was fully replaced in 2016.
    Orlando Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Before the 1960s, only a small portion of what's now the westernmost part of the island existed.
    Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The port of Roscoff, the ferry’s destination, is in the French department of Finistère, in the westernmost part of Brittany.
    Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The light was the only American lighthouse facing the Bering Sea, the westernmost lighthouse, and one of the most isolated jobs in the country.
    David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The westernmost Confederate state of Texas was the last to announce the proclamation.
    Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 18 June 2023
  • Located along the fabled Wild Atlantic Way, this 30-mile outcrop at the westernmost top of Ireland is home to craggy sea cliffs, rolling hills, and remote beaches.
    Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2023
  • Currently, the 22-acre property on the westernmost portion of Werk Road is less accessible than the park system would like.
    Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Because of this, some enslaved people in the westernmost Confederate state of Texas would not be freed until years later.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 14 June 2023
  • Historically, the creatures could be found in the state’s westernmost four counties and Montgomery County.
    Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 17 June 2024
  • The westernmost road in all of Canada dead-ends in Tofino, a small town at the tip of a peninsula on Vancouver Island’s rugged, mostly uninhabited west coast.
    Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Voters in Florida’s First Congressional District, in the westernmost part of the state’s panhandle, seemed largely unfazed by all the stories about him.
    Glenn Thrush, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The wildfire that sparked Tuesday night, propelled by hurricane winds and fueled by months of drought, swept over the westernmost swath of Maui this week, destroying thousands of buildings and killing an untold number of people.
    Reis Thebault, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The causeway is protected as a historic landmark by the cities of Miami, which has jurisdiction over its westernmost two islands, and Miami Beach.
    Orlando Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2023
  • It’s situated on the westernmost tip of a peninsula that juts into Lake Babcock, a 300-acre backdrop for perfect sunsets and the occasional kayaking jaunt.
    Andrew Lawrence, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2023
  • This westernmost community on Bogue Banks is a treasured vacation getaway for families, with its 12 miles of clean shores, clear waters, and old-fashioned neighborhoods and vibe.
    Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The cooking of mainland Europe’s westernmost country is deeply rooted in the freshest local ingredients.
    Paul Ames, CNN, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Russia could be provoked into placing more short-range missiles in Kaliningrad—the noncontiguous, westernmost part of Russia that is sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania.
    Dmitri Trenin, Foreign Affairs, 28 Dec. 2021
  • There's easy shore access through neighborhoods (including the lively community of Crystal Beach), as well as a free ferry that runs all day, all year long, between the peninsula's westernmost end and Galveston.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Despite its last-minute scheduling, the meeting at a bookstore in Russia’s westernmost city of Kaliningrad still drew about 60 people, with many outraged by a lawmaker’s efforts to ban abortions in local private clinics.
    Dasha Litvinova, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Oct. 2023
  • That specific location is an intersection near the westernmost corner of the Parliament of Georgia.
    Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 6 May 2024
  • Shaped by volcanoes, battered by storms, and conditioned by vast distances, the archipelago contains the westernmost point in the European Union and also some of its poorest communities.
    Philip Sherburne, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2024

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