Example sentences for: north-south

How can you use “north-south” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • São Vicente, perhaps the prettiest village on the island, begins at the point where the northern coastal road meets the north-south road heading 21 km (13 miles) to Ribeira Brava.

  • To get there, take Route 10, a major north-south artery.

  • Here, the wail of riverboat foghorns mingles with train whistles on the nation’s main north-south railway.

  • Although Northern Ireland's Protestant Belfast Telegraph declared in an editorial that the creation of cross-border, north-south bodies was "asking too much" of the Ulster Unionists, the Republican Irish News in Belfast urged the Unionists to accept them as "a logical development."

  • Historically and culturally this north-south distinction has always been significant, and it still is today, with a dose of good-humored rivalry between the two areas.


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