Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Moving or about to move toward the west; bound or destined for some place in the west: as, west-bound freight.
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Examples
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Never a day does the gray thin, or the snow-squalls cease that we do not sight ships, west-bound like ourselves, hove-to and trying to hold on to the meagre westing they possess.
CHAPTER XXXIX 2010
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One was to catch the blind baggage on the west-bound overland that night.
Confession 2010
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I wanted to take the west-bound overland that night.
Confession 2010
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Today, the Virginia football coaching staff and 67 players will board a west-bound flight that will take them roughly 2,500 miles to Los Angeles.
Tip sheets help Virginia players prepare for travel to West Coast 2010
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Spotted this west-bound on I-40 in Arizona this afternoon:
Anubis Goes Bye-Bye 2009
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Spotted this west-bound on I-40 in Arizona this afternoon:
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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Breaking free from the threads of cars heading east, it barreled toward the west-bound lane, and Siana saw it instantly.
365 tomorrows » 2007 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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So it is with great pleasure and pride that I warn you of DREADNOUGHT — which shall henceforth be known as the “battlefield adventure about a widowed nurse from a Confederate hospital aboard a west-bound train pulled by a Union war engine — now with military intrigue, murderous plots, the treachery of spies, bushwackers, bandits, sabotage, and epic scenes of mayhem.”
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I.e., one shop serves east-bound commuters, the other west-bound.
It's the coffee! Ann Althouse 2008
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As such, we were vested with the authority to keep vehicles off the west-bound Western Parkway.
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