Example sentences for: northward

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

  • Indeed, responses by species to such change, via phenological shifts and northward movement of species range margins, are well documented for northern hemisphere species (Parmesan and Yohe 2003).

  • Instead of hurtling across the United States and out to sea in the Atlantic, the jet stream retired northward...."

  • Thanks to the northward migration of Pacific marlin, California sport fishermen will have an annus mirabilis . And as for the surfing, it will be awesome.

  • 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.

  • 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?)


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