(a.) Of or pertaining to the west; toward the west; coming from the west; western.
(adv.) Toward the west; westward.
Example Sentences:
(1) For at least a week, there will be cold north-westerly winds.
(2) But it will get worse – by midweek, northerly or north-westerly winds will make us feel chilly, and by Thursday and Friday there are likely to be widespread heavy and thundery showers.
(3) A westerly gale meant that almost every wind turbine in the UK would have been producing close to its maximum output.
(4) Martin Babakhan, a meteorologist and lecturer at Australia’s University of Newcastle, said that since the satellite images were taken the objects found could have moved “about 200 or 300 kilometres from the original location” in a westerly direction, closer to Australia.
(5) The 40 or so demoralised troops headed out of town in a westerly direction.
(6) While the wind was blowing hard across our westerly coasts at the weekend, large parts of the Continent were calm and could have usefully imported our surplus.
(7) A quick tumble down a dune from the car park, Porth Iago is the sandiest and has a perfect south-westerly orientation and clear blue waters, which are ideal for swimming and kayaking.
(8) All Visehrad countries were bordering the west and either the richest or most westernised parts of the bloc – although of course half of Poland is neither rich nor westerly.
(9) The report by Linley-Adams, acting for the owners of the rights to Ullapool river in Wester Ross, details alleged government failures to designate an appropriate number of west coast Scottish rivers as special areas for conservation for the protection of wild Atlantic salmon under the European commission's habitats directive.
(10) The wettest location was Cluanie Inn, Wester Ross, which had 188mm of rain, while the driest was Leconfield in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
(11) They [the weather systems] have strong winds associated with them, and the wind direction also changes between south westerly and north westerly, depending on where you are in relation to these cold fronts,” she said.
(12) Wester, who was there, was still serving as the conference’s spokesman.
(13) cambridgeonline.co.uk ID154350 Applecross River, Wester Ross, Scotland The river meets a huge expanse of sand at Applecross Bay.
(14) The next morning, Wester arrived for his first official day on the job as Archbishop of Santa Fe, at the archdiocese headquarters located on the west side of the Rio Grande, across from downtown Albuquerque.
(15) The incidence of Burkitt's tumour appears to be lower in the easterly Igbos than in the ethnic groups living in the westerly part of Nigeria.
(16) "Because it is northerly and north-westerly winds, it is largely northern and western Scotland that will get the snow showers but some will get into Northern Ireland, north-west England and north Wales as well.
(17) Bells will be ringing everywhere from Britain's northernmost inhabited house in Skaw in the Shetland Islands to the UK's most westerly church in Tresco in the Scilly Isles.
(18) For females, a pattern of increasing suicide with more westerly location was also found, except that Ontario and the Prairie Provinces were in reverse order.
(19) "Movements in the track of the jet stream, a narrow band of fast-flowing westerly winds high in the atmosphere, have contributed to the weather we have seen," a Met Office spokesman said.
(20) Four satellite building sites which were built within the past 25 years in the westerly part of Copenhagen were investigated for the frequency of inpatient admissions in the regional psychiatric department in 1985.