Example sentences for: northward

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

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

  • April is also cherry blossom season, with blossom-viewing picnics (hanami) held in parks and temples throughout Japan as the cherry-blossom “front” makes its steady progress northward.

  • 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 move northward made the supervision of defense efforts on the ever-sensitive borders of the empire easier.

  • 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.


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