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 | Sturner@al.com, al, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Authorities have released the name of a man found shot to death in northeast Jefferson County on Sunday.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, 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
  • When a 53-foot fish tanker truck crashed and rolled upside down on an embankment next to a creek in northeast Oregon, its driver suffered only minor injuries.
    Bill Chappell, NPR, 4 Apr. 2024
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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 | Lroop@al.com, 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
  • The path of totality will cross the state from southwest to northeast, passing through cities like Cleveland, Akron and just north of Columbus.
    The Enquirer, 11 Jan. 2024

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