How to Use northwest in a Sentence

northwest

1 of 3 adverb

• It's about 80 miles northwest of here.
• I headed northwest on Route 1.
• The frigid sea lapped at the shores of Tee Harbor, about 15 miles northwest of Juneau.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
• Coates said crews have backed off and are building a fire break at the top of the ridge line northwest of the fire line.
  — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
• The crash site was located about 10 miles northwest of Huntsville.
  — Gina Martinez, CBS News, 15 Feb. 2023
• The resort is about 45 miles northwest of Jackson, Wyoming.
  — Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 22 Feb. 2024
• Light west wind becoming northwest at 6 to 11 mph in the morning.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2024
• The site is in the Rosemont neighborhood, about two miles northwest of the Inner Harbor.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2023
• Late Tuesday morning, the storm was moving northwest across the mainland at about 20 mph.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 23 Aug. 2023
• This historic small town is an easy getaway about 80 miles northwest of New York City.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 6 Dec. 2023
• The hard rock phenoms are from Frankenmuth, about 90 miles northwest of Detroit.
  — Brian McCollum, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
• Here are some facts about this highly secured and surveilled place out in the country northwest of Detroit.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2023
• Michael Schlemmer lives in Corbin, Kentucky, about 100 miles northwest of Knoxville.
  — Saleen Martin, The Courier-Journal, 25 May 2023
• Framed by the Caliente and Temblor mountain ranges, the vast plain sits 150 miles northwest of Los Angeles and is the largest native grassland left in the state.
  — Alice Li, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
• Ten people were reported to have been killed in a plane that went down northwest of Moscow.
  — Anastasiia Malenko, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2023
• Lidia was moving west at 6 mph (9 kph) but expected to turn northwest and north over the weekend.
  — CBS News, 7 Oct. 2023
• There’ll be plenty of places to dine and drink at the Vigo County resort, about 160 miles northwest of downtown Louisville.
  — The Courier-Journal, 4 Apr. 2024
• The 24-year-old suspect was captured in Cobb County, just northwest of Atlanta.
  — CBS News, 4 May 2023
• South wind 6-8 mph becoming west northwest in the morning.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 30 June 2023
• The town of Decatur northwest of Fort Worth is more than tripling the size of its industrial park with a major land purchase.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 31 May 2023
• Takazawa, 56, grew up in a small town in Gunma prefecture, 50 miles northwest of Tokyo.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
• Located about 80 miles northwest of Los Angeles, the small town is tucked in a valley among the scenic Topatopa Mountains.
  — Megan Wood, Travel + Leisure, 17 Feb. 2024
• Glendale is about 10 miles northwest of downtown Phoenix.
  — Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 29 Jan. 2024
• McArthur Township is about 60 miles northwest of Columbus.
  — Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2024
• The race finishes in Alaska, about 130 miles northwest of Fairbanks.
  — Max Ufberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
• The site is a busy dining and entertainment area a few blocks northwest of Logan Circle.
  — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 2 May 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
• Elmore, who grew up in the small city about 40 miles northwest of Birmingham, said radio has always been a part of his life and is a big part of the community.
  — Brammhi Balarajan, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
• The site, about 75 miles northwest of London, drew the ‘British Pompeii’ moniker because, after a fire about a year after the village was built, the platforms holding it sunk into the riverbed.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2024
• After the event ends, take a short stroll northwest to CityCenter, settling into the plaza where pedestrian meets pricey.
  — Sarath Ganji, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2023

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northwest

2 of 3 adjective

• McEwen is a city in Humphreys County in the northwest part of the state.
  — Melissa Montoya, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2022
• Skies clear in the afternoon as strong northwest winds race over the area.
  — David Streit, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2023
• Just got back to Des Moines after a 5+ hour drive in snow from northwest Iowa.
  — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• That was the case with Whitehorse, the capital of the Yukon region in northwest Canada.
  — Times Insider Staff, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
• Sunshine holds all day, but northwest winds gusting to 30-plus mph hold highs in the mid- to upper 50s.
  — David Streit, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
• The wedding is set to take place on June 7, at Chester Cathedral, in northwest England.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 3 Dec. 2023
• There’s a bit of a wind chill as northwest winds kick up Some passing showers in the area today didn’t amount to much.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
• The rhino trackers trek a mile into the open desert plains of northwest Namibia.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Jan. 2024
• Tonight: Early west and northwest gusts should calm fairly quickly as the evening wears on.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2022
• Any progress that’s been made in northwest Syria in recent years is at risk of being wiped out.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 21 Feb. 2023
• The game of golf goes back 600 years, with its origins in St. Andrews, a seaside town in northwest Scotland.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 5 Sep. 2023
• Talisker is one of just two distilleries on the Isle of Skye in northwest Scotland (the other is Torabhaig).
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 7 Dec. 2023
• The southern wave is expected to take a more northwest track that would keep it safely out at sea.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 4 Sep. 2023
• After one of the warmest weekends of the year for the Bay Area, a cooling trend begins Monday, thanks to gusty northwest winds.
  — Anthony Edwards, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2023
• Storms could approach northwest Alabama by 7 p.m. tonight and track south and eastward across the state overnight.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 6 Apr. 2023
• At the ceremony, the two princes helped 650 guests to their seats at Chester Cathedral in northwest England.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 24 Apr. 2023
• The region is in the northwest part of the country, borders Switzerland and France, and encompasses Turin.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 19 Dec. 2022
• However, it is not expected to threaten the U.S. and will take a more northwest track that could keep it in the open Atlantic for the rest of its life.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 6 Sep. 2023
• One small county — Del Norte, in the state’s far northwest corner — has moved out of drought completely.
  — Hayley Smithstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• Set in Oia, on the island’s northwest tip, the new roughly $7,660-a-night villa offers sunset views, minus the crowds that throng the caldera rim.
  — Jackie Cooperman, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2023
• Winds from the northwest remain strong Saturday, making the wind chill a factor.
  — David Streit, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2023
• The rounded peak and the glacier on its northwest side were named for Everett dentist and mountain climber Harry B. Hinman in 1934.
  — John Ryan, oregonlive, 28 Jan. 2023
• Quintero is from a small town called Venta de Uribe de Juárez, which is in the far northwest corner of Oaxaca.
  — Marco Torres, Chron, 16 Mar. 2023
• Big Horn Brass will perform the work along with other northwest composers and arrangers during this event.
  — oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2023
• That storm reached Britain and Ireland last week, bringing several inches of heavy rain to much of Wales and northwest England.
  — Derrick Bryson Taylor, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• In a northwest Tunis neighborhood at 11 a.m., 40 customers were waiting in a line outside of a bakery in the sun, a common sight in the country.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2023
• Most can be tied back to at least one northwest Indiana gun retailer.
  — Vernal Coleman, ProPublica, 27 Mar. 2024
• That film is being partly shot in the spectacular swathe of northwest Saudi that boasts an ancient city and is now equipped with a state-of-the-art studio.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023
• Afterward, Saturday will be cloudy and breezy, with cold, northwest winds up to 20 mph, VanCleve said.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2024
• On Monday, about 160 workers at Sysco took turns to picket at the four exit ways at company's warehouse on the city's northwest side.
  — Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Mar. 2023

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northwest

3 of 3 noun

• A mountain range is in the northwest of the country.
• We traveled throughout the Northwest.
• Winds from the west and northwest are light at around 5 to 10 mph.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
• Winds from the west and northwest could gust about 30 mph.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2024
• Gusts out of the northwest in a 20 to 30 mph range were common.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023
• It is expected to track to the north or northwest this week.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 18 Sep. 2023
• Gusts near 20 mph from the northwest put a bit of an extra chill into the air.
  — Molly Robey, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2023
• Rain will change to snow from northwest to southeast across the DMV now through about 8:30 a.m.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
• Light, refreshing breezes blow from the north and northwest.
  — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
• Skies turn clearer with time as winds shift to the west then northwest or north by morning.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
• The damage is primarily on the west/northwest side of the mature plants.
  — oregonlive, 7 May 2023
• Ambulance workers in the West Midlands will strike on Jan. 23 and those in the northwest on Jan. 24.
  — Eamon Akil Farhat, Bloomberg.com, 18 Jan. 2023
• The wind will start off this morning from the northwest and turn southerly in the afternoon around 5 mph.
  — Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2023
• Lows will range from the upper 20s northwest to near 40 southeast.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 22 Mar. 2024
• Clouds look to remain numerous as gusty winds blow from the north and northwest.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
• Pieces of metal from 3 to 5 feet in length were found nearly three-quarters of a mile northwest.
  — Eric Killelea, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Apr. 2023
• The storm kicked off in the country’s northwest on Sept. 9, getting stronger by the hour and slowly moving eastward.
  — Jiachuan Wu, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2023
• Chula Vista has a new no-fence, off-leash dog park at Hilltop Park in the city’s northwest region.
  — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2024
• Grand County is about a 100-mile drive northwest of Denver.
  — Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 11 Apr. 2024
• Better odds of rain come in the afternoon and evening as a storm system passes to our northwest.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2023
• The weather service says much of northwest Oregon has a 50-70% chance of at least a quarter inch of rain Thursday.
  — oregonlive, 29 Aug. 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
• This cold snap will be driven by the system’s northwest flow and will peak Saturday night.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2023
• Julien’s parents married fresh out of high school in rural northwest Iowa.
  — Trip Gabriel Hilary Swift, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2023
• The best chance of this is west and northwest of Interstate 95, but the whole area could see conversational snowflakes for a time.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
• Murphy was born in a small town northwest of San Antonio.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• All of the outages are concentrated outside of Loop 410 in the north and northwest areas of Bexar County.
  — Express-News Staff, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Feb. 2023
• Some people displaced by the flood were shuttled by train to Mykolaiv, a Black Sea port city less than 40 miles to northwest of Kherson.
  — Maria Varenikova Mauricio Lima, New York Times, 7 June 2023
• Thursday high temperatures will only be in the 40s with a gusty northwest wind.
  — Dallas News, 14 Feb. 2023
• Security officials said Monday the gunman was traced and killed in a shootout in the northwest near the Afghan border.
  — Riaz Khan, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 2 May 2024