How to Use northeastern in a Sentence

northeastern

adjective

• The park sits on Navajo lands in the northeastern part of the state.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 21 Apr. 2023
• The northeastern island is breezy year-round, and those winds can pick up in the winter and spring.
  — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2024
• In late July, a roseate spoonbill spent some time in the northeastern part of the state near Green Bay.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023
• Teixeira was born in 1935, in Irajuba, a small town in the northeastern state of Bahia.
  — Alejandro Chacoff, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
• The shooting unfolded just before 1 a.m. ET on Meade Street in the northeastern part of the city.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 5 July 2023
• The ancient serpent lived in the steamy swamps of the Eocene over 40 million years ago, in what is now northeastern Colombia.
  — Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2024
• Soto ended up at the prison in Susanville in the remote northeastern corner of the state.
  — Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• Hervey Bay is along the northeastern coast and about 600 miles northeast of Sydney.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
• They had been held captive since crossing into the northeastern state of Tamaulipas from the Texas city of Brownsville on March 3.
  — Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2023
• The catamounts were known as an eastern cougar and mostly seen in northeastern states and in Canada.
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2023
• He had been sent to northeastern China in 2019 to earn money for the North Korean regime.
  — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 9 July 2023
• On the Rhine, with its 139 apartments, offers the same thing to locals wanting to live closer to the northeastern edge of Downtown.
  — Randy Tucker, The Enquirer, 16 May 2023
• Smoke from more than 100 wildfires burning in Quebec has cast a thick haze over much of the northeastern United States.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 7 June 2023
• In the frigid forests of the Russian Far East and northeastern China, these burly cats stalk a variety of prey including birds, boars, and bears.
  — Byjack Tamisiea, science.org, 4 Apr. 2023
• Most of the growth has been concentrated in the northeastern part of the county, just a few miles from Walt Disney World in metro Orlando.
  — Mike Schneider, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
• There could also be a low risk for a tornado in the northeastern part of the state, according to the Storm Prediction Center.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 6 Aug. 2023
• Cordelia, Queensland, is about 1,400 miles northwest from Sydney and along the country’s northeastern coast.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2024
• It was unintentionally brought to the northeastern U.S. in the late 1800s and has since moved westward.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2023
• The projects were to span nearly 40 linear miles on Black Mesa’s northeastern escarpment.
  — The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
• Several cruise missiles were fired at 10:15 a.m. local time from the northeastern city of Hamhung, the military in Seoul said.
  — Dasl Yoon, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2023
• The refuge in the northeastern corner of Alaska is home to grizzly and polar bears, snowy owls, migratory birds and herds of moose and caribou.
  — Lisa Friedman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• The next disturbance is what’s left of former Hurricane Franklin and was over the northeastern Atlantic on Thursday.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 7 Sep. 2023
• Democrats lost the northeastern Green Bay media market by an average of 17 points in the last two races for president and by 17 points in the last three races for governor.
  — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 26 June 2023
• In California, the viewing area for the ring of fire includes only a tiny northeastern corner of the state near the Oregon and Nevada borders.
  — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• In the northeastern part of the state, the town of Wynne was also devastated, and officials there reported four dead as well as people trapped in the debris.
  — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 1 Apr. 2023
• The man charged with murder in connection with the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old man in northeastern Fort Worth last year pleaded guilty to a murder charge and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
  — Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
• In the northeastern part of the country, many schools ended classes early and others moved online to protect children from the intense heat.
  — Cesar Rodriguez Elda Cantú, New York Times, 6 July 2023
• The meteors will appear to stream from the constellation Gemini, which will rise in the northeastern sky.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2023
• Look toward the northeastern horizon in the early hours before dawn or the northwestern horizon in the evening after sunset.
  — The Arizona Republic, 27 Mar. 2024
• Whole neighborhoods were devastated in the northeastern part of the city, where gas cylinders were turned into makeshift bombs and tossed into mosques.
  — Sameer Yasir, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 6 May 2024