Sentence examples for westerly course from inspiring English sources
The river flows by Heilbronn to Eberbach, where it takes a tortuous westerly course, cutting through the wooded hills of the southern Odenwald.
Its 35-mile (56-kilometre) westerly course traverses zones of mangrove swamps and coastal sand ridges before entering the Bight of Benin of the Gulf of Guinea.
One of the crew of the Centurion, interviewed last night, stated, according to the "Standard," that the collision occurred at 5.38 a.m., when the great battleship was steaming on a westerly course at a speed of between 19 and 20 knots.
Emergency officials and residents of the New York metropolitan region breathed a little easier yesterday as Hurricane Isabel held to her westerly course for the Carolinas, although the state police opened their emergency control center for New Jersey, whose southern shore is expecting heavy wind and waves tonight and tomorrow.
It leaves the main course of the Niger River about 20 miles (32 km) downstream from Aboh and flows through zones of freshwater swamps, mangrove swamps, and coastal sand ridges before completing its 123-mile (198-kilometre) westerly course to the Bight of Benin.
Barry then began a westerly course towards central Florida.
Today, after a few stops in Nashville, we're ploughing a south-westerly course across the state to Memphis.
After leaving the mouth of the Rangoon river and passing Elephant Point, a south-westerly course is taken.
Last night, Hvalur 8 and 9, two whaling vessels owned by millionaire entrepreneur Kristjan Loftsson, left Reykjavik harbour in Iceland, bound on a north-westerly course for the open Atlantic.
The low lying delta of the Irrawaddy is barely visible above the surrounding waters, and the presence of land is only known to be a reality by the clumps of palm trees which rear their straight tall stems from the surrounding plains.After leaving the mouth of the Rangoon river and passing Elephant Point, a south-westerly course is taken.
In the vessel so constructed and appointed the Saint and his confrères put off into the Atlantic, taking a south-westerly course.
