Example sentences for: southwestern

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

  • On the bay’s southwestern promontory is the fascinating Grotta di ­Nettuno (Neptune’s Grotto).

  • In the late 1960s Chicanos starting calling the southwestern United States, or that portion of Mexico lost to the United States during the U.S.-Mexican War of 1846–1848, Aztlán, in reference to the legend of the wandering Mexica.

  • SBC Communications (formerly Southwestern Bell), the West's dominant local phone company is, reports the Times , set to acquire Ameritech, its counterpart in the Midwest, thus becoming the nation's largest local phone company and recreating much of the old Bell phone system.

  • Little is known of the earliest Stone Age inhabitants of Europe’s southwestern extremity.

  • The Washington Post leads with a report that cocaine and marijuana seizures in the southwestern U.S. and along Mexico's Pacific coast have escalated dramatically in the past two years.


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