How to Use northeasterly in a Sentence

northeasterly

adverb or adjective

• Light northeasterly breezes near 10 mph may blow by late day.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 31 July 2020
• Team New Zealand won the 10th race by 46 seconds in a shifty northeasterly breeze to complete its defense of the famous Auld Mug.
  — Chronicle News Services, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2021
• It will eventually be steered more northerly and northeasterly in the next 24 to 36 hours.
  — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2020
• The smoke plume, being blown downwind by the strong northeasterly Santa Ana winds, stretched more than 300 miles out over the Pacific Ocean.
  — Kathryn Prociv, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2017
• High pressure to the north provides a northeasterly flow of air, bringing in low clouds and cool temperatures.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• The name comes from the continuously strong northeasterly winds that precede the nor'easter.
  — Fox News, 11 Feb. 2020
• Winds will become a bit more northeasterly, which will just reinforce the cloud cover.
  — Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2020
• Strong surface high pressure in the Great Basin will promote strong northeasterly Santa Ana winds.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2019
• Farther to the west, the weather service in Mobile said to expect gusty northerly to northeasterly winds Sunday and Monday.
  — Leada Gore, AL.com, 9 Sep. 2017
• Three were among the state’s largest of all time by early September, when hard northeasterly winds blew them into an entirely new realm of superlatives.
  — Daniel Duane, Wired, 30 Sep. 2020
• Medium Tonight: As cool, dry, polar high pressure continues to ride into our area on steady north and northeasterly breezes around 10 mph, skies get even clearer and dew points plummet (into the very dry 30s).
  — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2020
• Sunday: Skies are mostly cloudy with marine air pushing into the region upon northeasterly breezes around 10 mph.
  — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2020
• Consider that there needs to be an inflection point where the winds shift from southerly to more easterly, and then eventually northeasterly and finally northerly as these storms rotate.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2021
• Winds will weaken and turn more northeasterly into Saturday.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2020
• Afternoon northeasterly wind gusts could reach 17 mph, forecasters said.
  — Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, 5 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024