How to Use northeast in a Sentence

northeast

1 of 3 adverb

• It's a few miles northeast of here.
• We left the city and headed northeast.
• Winds blow from the east and northeast around 10 to 20 mph.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2024
• Winds will be from the north and northeast about 5 to 10 mph.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
• Wind should increase out of the north and northeast through the night, gusting around 30 mph by dawn.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2024
• The siblings grew up in a small town about 30 miles northeast of Tulsa.
  — Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2024
• Tammy will be steered northeast ahead of a trough, or dip in the jet stream filled with cool air and low pressure.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
• Several miles later, the couple saw the same car parked on the side of the road near a rest area northeast of Otis.
  — oregonlive, 7 Apr. 2023
• Perhaps mixed with some thunder, rain can linger into the early overnight to the east and northeast of the city.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
• On day two, however, the train will head northeast to Jasper.
  — Jessica Poitevien, Travel + Leisure, 23 Sep. 2023
• Fifty-two students were on board at the time of the crash in Clark County, which is about 30 miles northeast of Dayton, Ross said.
  — Alexandra Faul, ABC News, 22 Aug. 2023
• The town is located just east of the state border with Texas, about 120 miles northeast of Houston.
  — Sara Smart, CNN, 24 Aug. 2023
• Southerly winds could see gusts up to 40 mph as the storm moves northeast, officials said.
  — Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2023
• Havre de Grace is about a 40 mile drive northeast of Baltimore.
  — Don Sweeney, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
• Romance is about a 45-mile drive northeast from Little Rock.
  — Lauren Liebhaber, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
• The school is located about four miles northeast of the Maryland-D.C. border.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
• Three months after my trip, Mother Frost was found dead in a fjord northeast of Longyearbyen.
  — Taymour Soomro Scott Conarroe, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• Tuesday's highs range from near 60 northeast to the upper 60s southwest.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 25 Mar. 2024
• The agency warned smoke might impact areas southwest of the burn site before shifting northeast in the evening.
  — Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 25 Apr. 2023
• The watch bulletin says that the storm conditions will move northeast from the nation’s capital throughout the day.
  — James Powel, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
• Meanwhile, farther north and northeast, the rain totals will be much lower.
  — Kxas-Tv (nbc5), Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
• The city, located about 25 miles northeast of Charlotte, has agreed to pay $22 million of the settlement.
  — CBS News, 10 Jan. 2024
• Places near the bay and northeast toward Baltimore continue to see gusty storms the next 30-60 minutes.
  — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2023
• About 36 miles northeast of St.Petersburg is Brandon, which comes in eight.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2024
• Officials said Monday evening that a debris field had been located about two and a half hours northeast of the base.
  — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2023
• Painesville Township is about 30 miles northeast of Cleveland.
  — Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2024
• The shelter is in Boaz, near Albertville and roughly 65 miles northeast of Birmingham.
  — Simone Jasper, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2024
• The dispute has stalled construction of the project, which sits south of Florida’s Turnpike and about 3 miles northeast of Homestead.
  — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024
• The 2024 total solar eclipse will traverse a path northeast across parts of Mexico, the United States and Canada.
  — The Arizona Republic, 8 Apr. 2024
• Found in the far northeast of Japan on the island of Hokkaido, the Fuyu-no-Shitsugen train chuffs through this national park with retro style in the winter months.
  — John Walton, CNN, 10 Apr. 2023

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northeast

2 of 3 adjective

• My office is in the northeast corner of the building.
• The summit could revise the strategic map of northeast Asia.
  — Mari Yamaguchi, ajc, 17 Mar. 2023
• Five days into the war, a strike hit Hamed’s house in Beit Hanoun, in northeast Gaza.
  — Hajar Harb, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023
• So the park’s northeast corner might feel a bit more crowded.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2024
• East and northeast breezes could gust near 25 mph by midafternoon.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• Also original to the structure is a small back porch on the rear, northeast corner.
  — Bill Bowden, arkansasonline.com, 24 Dec. 2023
• Head to the picturesque town of Appenzell in northeast Switzerland.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2023
• The church is in the town of Baldwyn, which is in Prentiss and Lee counties in northeast Mississippi.
  — Mosheh Gains, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2024
• All of this is thanks to El Nino, which brings warmer temperatures to the broader northeast area of the country.
  — Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2024
• The boy, who doesn’t so much as flinch when the weapons not far from their town in northeast Ukraine shoot off more rounds, pouts and pedals away on his bicycle.
  — Samya Kullab, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2023
• The arrest came less than a week after Lauren Heike, 29, was found dead along a desert-area hiking trail in northeast Phoenix.
  — Paradise Afshar, CNN, 5 May 2023
• Cockscomb pearl mussels, the study’s starring bivalves, are found in fresh waters across northeast Asia.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 22 June 2023
• The rear terrace offers northeast views toward the mountains and Cuyamaca Peak.
  — Nicole Sours Larson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2023
• Alan Mazzotti can see the Rocky Mountains about 30 miles west of his pumpkin patch in northeast Colorado on a clear day.
  — Melina Walling and Brittany Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2023
• Pederson said that there was a backdoor front, which is when northeast winds come off the ocean, between noon and 1 p.m. which caused wind gusts to jump from five to 14 miles-per-hour.
  — Adam Sennott, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2023
• After getting engaged last spring, Harris and Hope tied the knot over the weekend in northeast England.
  — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 11 Sep. 2023
• The board was scheduled to finalize the boundary study for middle schools in central and northeast parts of the county at its June 13 meeting.
  — Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 11 July 2023
• Dry northeast winds — often called offshore winds — are something that the Bay Area hasn’t experienced much in the last few months.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Apr. 2023
• Over the course of a couple days in September 2005—amidst a flurry of volcanic eruptions and hundreds of earthquakes—the ground in northeast Ethiopia split wide open.
  — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2023
• The storms kept tracking east across the state, reaching parts of northeast Florida Thursday morning.
  — Eric Zerkel, CNN, 12 Oct. 2023
• Light but fairly steady east and northeast breezes continue.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 28 May 2023
• Lined with wolfberry shrubs and paloverde, mesquite and hackberry trees, the wash meanders in a northeast arch on the preserve’s far northwest edge.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 2 Mar. 2023
• Amid the sea of National Rally victories in northeast France, the left managed to win only a handful of districts.
  — Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• In Spain on Tuesday, farmers cut off traffic on highways in northeast Catalonia, on the border with France.
  — Vanessa Gera, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2024
• Police previously said in a news release that the boy was pronounced dead at the scene by the time officers responded to the house on the city's northeast side just after 7:30 a.m.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 11 Dec. 2023
• Bachir Khodr, the regional governor of Baalbek, in northeast Lebanon, where the strike took place, said three people were wounded.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2024
• Permits were issued last week for more than $7 million apartment buildings in northeast Huntsville.
  — Scott Turner | [e-mail], al, 30 Aug. 2023
• Authorities have released the name of a man found shot to death in northeast Jefferson County on Sunday.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 12 Sep. 2023
• This Arctic Ocean island used to be connected to northeast Siberia and is the last place where woolly mammoths survived up until about 4,000 years ago.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 May 2023
• Dunnottar Castle This cliff-top fortress stands in ruins on Scotland's northeast coast, but the stunning view alone is a reason to visit.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 5 Dec. 2023

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northeast

3 of 3 noun

• A mountain range is in the northeast of the country.
• Parts of the Northeast were hit hard by the storm.
• I grew up in the Northeast.
• Winds will stay gusty out of the northeast at 10-20 mph.
  — Greg Porter, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2022
• The flood hit Libya’s northeast, which lies on the Mediterranean coast.
  — Mostafa Salem, CNN, 13 Sep. 2023
• Look for the station just above the east-northeast horizon.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2023
• The impacts could ripple across the state and the larger northeast.
  — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 13 June 2023
• Our Home of the Week is a little bit to the northeast, in Wilmington.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Dec. 2022
• Winds will blow from the east/northeast at about 15 mph with gust of up to 23 mph by the afternoon.
  — oregonlive, 14 Dec. 2022
• The effects of the storm have hardly been limited to the northeast.
  — Ronn Blitzer, Fox News, 25 Dec. 2022
• High temperatures aim for the low to mid-70s and breezes from the east and northeast could gust near 25 mph.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 28 May 2023
• Still not a sure thing, with better odds of more consistent rain to the east and northeast.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
• Winds become light after dark, out of the north or northeast.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2023
• The march across the nation could last through the weekend, when parts of the northeast could be blasted with more than a foot of snow, forecasters warned.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2022
• Through Tonight: Breezes from the east and northeast continue to behave nicely, staying near calm for most of the night.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
• Coming from the top northeast of the state, Harguess said there’s no track club at a local metro area to go practice with.
  — Nik Streng, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• My 1/3-acre lot is a corner lot on a steep northeast-facing hill near the foot of Cooper Mountain.
  — oregonlive, 29 Oct. 2022
• Our coastal storm will exit to our northeast this morning.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2024
• To enjoy the shower, find a dark spot with wide-open nightscapes, and look toward the Perseus constellation in the east to northeast sky.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 1 Aug. 2023
• The same dynamic played out on a larger scale northeast and northwest of Kyiv over the next few weeks, as the Russian field armies neared the city.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2022
• That death brought the toll to seven in the county about 40 miles (64 kilometers) northeast of Selma.
  — Jeff Martin, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2023
• Light to moderate winds from the east and northeast continue.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 29 May 2023
• And one of those cities is Sulphur Springs, Texas, which is located about an hour-and-a-half northeast of Dallas.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2023
• In Alabama, the river flows across the top of the state from northeast to northwest with two large lakes along the way created by TVA dams.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 25 Jan. 2023
• Lebanon’s army is just one of many armed forces in the country, which include Shiite groups like Hezbollah that control large parts of the south and northeast.
  — Hwaida Saad, New York Times, 31 July 2023
• The bird’s fire flares from intense, fruity-smoky pasilla mixe, dried chiles from the northeast highlands of Oaxaca.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2022
• The total solar eclipse, the first in Ohio in hundreds of years, will cross the state from southwest to northeast, passing over a 124-mile-wide band just to the north and west of Columbus.
  — Jack Nimesheim, The Enquirer, 14 June 2023
• Temperatures trend noticeably cooler with highs near 50 to the low 50s and light winds from the north and northeast.
  — Molly Robey, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
• So, the threat is there for potential lava flows that could reach to the southwest, northeast and northwest of Mauna Loa.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2022
• Low temperatures dip into the 30s, and breezes from the east and northeast remain mainly light.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024