How to Use Westerner in a Sentence

Westerner

noun
  • Westerners tend to be unfamiliar with Asian customs.
  • Chawla told Newsweek that, while many Westerners make chai with syrups and blends, this was not correct.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The brand’s plain black cotton Westerner transforms sober dark grey or charcoal suits, too.
    — Aleks Cvetkovic, Robb Report, 7 July 2021
  • But its universe is still being imagined, largely, by Westerners.
    — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2023
  • Soy milk is curdled in a salty solution but not squeezed or drained like the spongey bricks of tofu familiar to most Westerners.
    — Bradley Hohulin, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Some critics will tell you that, as Westerners are producing more of this content, a certain purity has been lost.
    — Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 5 Sep. 2024
  • In a videotape of the incident, one of the pilots on the ground is a Westerner speaking English.
    — Helene Cooper, New York Times, 5 June 2024
  • Almost no one knew what was happening to Westerners trapped inside China.
    — Nan Z. Da june 10, Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
  • Nowadays, rather than a motif of peace or well-being, it is closely linked for most Westerners to antisemitism and Nazism.
    — Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The region is famous for its far lower prices on food, hotels, activities, and excursions than most Westerners are used to.
    — Lindsay Tigar, Travel + Leisure, 29 Apr. 2023
  • That should get the attention of any Westerner who dislikes the idea of the government forcing its way into local real estate deals.
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 14 May 2025
  • The students rarely exhibited the kind of idealism that a Westerner associates with youth.
    — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
  • But to a Westerner, the sanitation situation is nothing short of amazing.
    — Larry Wilson, Orange County Register, 15 Sep. 2024
  • Unlike other Westerners, the Crooks chose to live on campus, alongside their students and fellow faculty members.
    — Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Joining Red Note has also brought Westerners closer to Chinese citizens than ever before.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
  • There are conventional offerings, like massages and facials, and more unusual — to Westerners, at least — options that harness singing bowls, stones, and Ayurvedic techniques.
    — Claudia Fisher, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2024
  • But, in any case, Gave insists that many Westerners have been greatly underestimating the ability of Chinese firms to innovate, rather than merely copy.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • One Westerner who supported the bill was President Lincoln, who looked past constitutional qualms to the plain necessity.
    — Roger Lowenstein, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Additionally, when studying populations of people who don’t wear modern footwear, researchers rarely if ever find any of the chronic foot conditions that plague the average Westerner.
    — Dr. Ray McClanahan, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2020
  • But these ties are often mistaken for friendships by Westerners, and frequently turn one-sided in favor of the CCP—absent sufficient leverage.
    — Diane Brady, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The story takes us inside Japanese power circles (circa the 1600s) from the point of view of a Westerner named John Blackthorne.
    — Nina Metz, Twin Cities, 4 Jan. 2024
  • And Indonesian music is generally, and not surprisingly, overlooked by Westerners, who would actually find a lot to love in the thriving local music scenes.
    — Keegan Bradford, SPIN, 25 July 2024
  • Beer’s work tracks a Westerner’s aesthetic journey into an ancient spiritual culture that Sherpa works joyfully to recontextualize in the present day.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2023
  • The top of the global income distribution thus remains dominated by Westerners, especially by Americans.
    — Branko Milanovic, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2023
  • This hotel is more what a Westerner is likely accustomed to, with plenty of versatile dining options (also because it’s attached to the adjoining Trident Hotel through a passageway of shops).
    — Claudia Fisher, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2024
  • Inevitably, the Italian composer viewed China from a Westerner’s perspective, emphasizing exoticism and revenge.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 23 Mar. 2025
  • But even as Chinese athletes in Paris have made further strides in sports traditionally dominated by Westerners, a sense of the injustice and isolation they’ve been forced to overcome continues to loom over Olympic discourse.
    — Koh Ewe, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Taken to its illogical extreme, Russia is liberating Ukrainians from the degenerate Westerners tricking them into turning against their Russian brothers.
    — Michael S. Neiberg, Washington Post, 12 June 2023
  • The Ukrainian business climate, still overshadowed by Soviet-era inefficiencies and irregularities, remains difficult for Westerners to navigate.
    — Tamar Jacoby, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025

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