How to Use northwestern in a Sentence

northwestern

adjective
Definition of northwesternnext
  • The modern city of Rennes is in northwestern France, about 200 miles west of Paris.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 26 June 2024
  • Tiger sharks are found around the northwestern islands of Hawaii.
    — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 15 May 2023
  • Once you’re settled, the city of Annecy, at the northwestern mouth of the lake, is easy enough to explore by foot.
    — Michael Venutolo-Mantovani, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The lake is about 35 miles (56 kilometers) north of Newry, in northwestern Maine.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
  • The ridge is pushing hot and dry air over much of the northwestern and north-central United States.
    — Nathaniel Rosenberg, Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2023
  • In the northwestern city of Herat, men have sold their kidneys on the black market.
    — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Wellstar is a major health system across the northwestern part of the state.
    — Timothy Pratt, ajc, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The storms will enter the northwestern corner of the state around noon and lasting until about 5 p.m.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Forecasters have also added a risk for storms on Wednesday for the northwestern part of the state.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Knokke-Heist is along the northwestern coast of Belgium and about a 70 mile-drive northwest of Brussels.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2024
  • All three are in the northwestern corner of the state, with Clackamas and Multnomah in the Portland area.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Clouds will begin to thicken overnight and there’s a slight chance of nighttime rain in the northwestern corner of the state and along the northern beaches.
    — oregonlive, 16 Feb. 2023
  • An incident led to the death of a newborn bison calf in northwestern Wyoming.
    — Stephen Smith, CBS News, 5 June 2023
  • The property is a 15-minute walk from Oia’s famed coast on the northwestern tip of Santorini.
    — Jessica Vadillo, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2024
  • The Uyghurs are a Turkic ethnic group that has lived in what is now northwestern China for thousands of years.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Winds will be particularly strong on the northwestern, or back, side of the storm, NHC warned.
    — Andrew Freedman, Axios, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Mount Lafayette is a mountain with an elevation of around 5,200 feet in the northwestern part of the state, near the town of Franconia.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 24 Nov. 2022
  • District 12 covers the far northwestern corner of the state.
    — Nwa Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 22 Jan. 2022
  • The parking spots will be on six acres at 75 Cultural Park Place, in the northwestern corner of the property.
    — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The northwestern city of Lanzhou has put four of its districts under a seven-day lockdown.
    — Eva Dou, Washington Post, 14 July 2022
  • The rain — a couple of months’ worth for the northwestern Nevada desert — led festival organizers to close the gates in and out of Black Rock City.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • They were observed in three different locations in the northwestern part of the state.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Its northwestern-most tip now extends beyond the Alamo.
    — Benjamin Wermund, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Mar. 2022
  • In 2020, the Spanish government banned small sailing boats from a part of northwestern Spain.
    — Tomas Weber, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2024
  • Thistle Creek is not far from Dawson City, the epicenter of the gold rush in the late 1800s that drew so many prospectors to northwestern Canada.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Wells-Cage grew up in a slice of northwestern Milwaukee where 95% of residents are Black.
    — USA Today, 7 June 2023
  • The boat was due to explore Norway this summer, cruising through its northwestern fjords, though that was cancelled at the last minute.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The fleet serving the Red Sea will be able to carry 30 passengers around the northwestern shores of Saudi Arabia.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2024
  • Rebel forces maintained control over a portion of northwestern Syria while the U.S.-backed Kurdish forces held control over an area in the east.
    — Ty Roush, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
  • After bursting out of their territory in the northwestern Idlib province, the main rebel group captured Aleppo and Hama in just over a week of fighting.
    — Eyad Kourdi, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024

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