Example sentences for: northerly

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

  • The most northerly of the western Maui oceanfront resorts, the Ritz-Carlton is a grand hotel with hints of tropical plantation days, set amidst rugged coves and mountains.

  • For geological extremes, take the rough and pothole-ridden track to the most northerly point on the island, Cap de Cavallería.

  • The year was 1778; his landfall was the northerly island of Kauai; and the name he gave his new discovery was the Sandwich Islands (after the Lord of the Admiralty, the Earl of Sandwich).

  • The sea is refreshing and so, usually, is the air, cooled in summer by the northerly ocean currents.

  • When Alberta and Saskatchewan acceded to provincial status in 1905, and the country’s mining, lumber, paper, and pulp industries burgeoned, Laurier championed a new transcontinental railway that would take a more northerly route to serve them — the state-owned Canadian National Railway (C.N.R.)


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