Example sentences for: northward

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

  • The New York Times and Washington Post each run this as their off-leads, choosing to lead instead with the continued course northward of Floyd, now downgraded to a tropical storm.

  • Farther south, angry Canadian fishermen blockaded an Alaskan ferry to protest their low catch of sockeye, which, they say, have been impelled northward to the colder Alaskan waters by unknown factors (global warming?)

  • The first Europeans landed on the California coast in the 16th century — Spanish explorers in search of gold, seeking to extend their Mexican empire northward.

  • Essentially, he proposes that the parent of all Indo-European languages was itself born in central Anatolia, whence it spread eastward, westward, and northward, being modified by the influences of the languages with which it came into contact, till it ultimately emerged in its recognizable, modern manifestations which we categorize into Germanic, Hellenic, Italic, Indo-Iranian, Anatolian, Armenian, Celtic, Tocharian, Albanian, and BaltoSlavic.

  • Continue northward along Tremont Street to the squat, granite King’s Chapel (summer Monday, Thursday– Saturday 9am–4pm; winter Saturday only 9am–4pm).


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