How to Use northwestern in a Sentence

northwestern

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• The modern city of Rennes is in northwestern France, about 200 miles west of Paris.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 26 June 2024
• Tiger sharks are found around the northwestern islands of Hawaii.
  — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 15 May 2023
• The lake is about 35 miles (56 kilometers) north of Newry, in northwestern Maine.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
• The ridge is pushing hot and dry air over much of the northwestern and north-central United States.
  — Nathaniel Rosenberg, Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2023
• Wellstar is a major health system across the northwestern part of the state.
  — Timothy Pratt, ajc, 1 Sep. 2022
• Forecasters have also added a risk for storms on Wednesday for the northwestern part of the state.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 13 Feb. 2023
• Knokke-Heist is along the northwestern coast of Belgium and about a 70 mile-drive northwest of Brussels.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2024
• All three are in the northwestern corner of the state, with Clackamas and Multnomah in the Portland area.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 4 Sep. 2024
• Clouds will begin to thicken overnight and there’s a slight chance of nighttime rain in the northwestern corner of the state and along the northern beaches.
  — oregonlive, 16 Feb. 2023
• An incident led to the death of a newborn bison calf in northwestern Wyoming.
  — Stephen Smith, CBS News, 5 June 2023
• The property is a 15-minute walk from Oia’s famed coast on the northwestern tip of Santorini.
  — Jessica Vadillo, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2024
• Mount Lafayette is a mountain with an elevation of around 5,200 feet in the northwestern part of the state, near the town of Franconia.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 24 Nov. 2022
• The parking spots will be on six acres at 75 Cultural Park Place, in the northwestern corner of the property.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
• The northwestern city of Lanzhou has put four of its districts under a seven-day lockdown.
  — Eva Dou, Washington Post, 14 July 2022
• The rain — a couple of months’ worth for the northwestern Nevada desert — led festival organizers to close the gates in and out of Black Rock City.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• They were observed in three different locations in the northwestern part of the state.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2023
• In 2020, the Spanish government banned small sailing boats from a part of northwestern Spain.
  — Tomas Weber, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2024
• Thistle Creek is not far from Dawson City, the epicenter of the gold rush in the late 1800s that drew so many prospectors to northwestern Canada.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2022
• Wells-Cage grew up in a slice of northwestern Milwaukee where 95% of residents are Black.
  — USA Today, 7 June 2023
• The boat was due to explore Norway this summer, cruising through its northwestern fjords, though that was cancelled at the last minute.
  — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 26 Aug. 2022
• The fleet serving the Red Sea will be able to carry 30 passengers around the northwestern shores of Saudi Arabia.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2024
• The second system is a trough of low pressure in the northwestern Caribbean.
  — Natalia Jaramillo, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2022
• Visitors to the local swimming pools in the northwestern city of Hanover have to take cold showers after their dip.
  — WIRED, 28 Aug. 2022
• While Emma would go on to become known in their corner of northwestern Long Island for her grand soirees, tonight’s party would be one for the books.
  — Beatrice Hazlehurst, ELLE, 26 Apr. 2023
• Crews continued to focus on the northwestern portion of the fire Monday night.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2024
• The species began appearing in the northwestern United States in 2019.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 26 July 2022
• Hancock is a small city of around 5,000 in northwestern Michigan, in the state’s Upper Peninsula.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 24 July 2024
• Joseph was studying law in Myanmar’s northwestern city of Sagaing when the military’s 2021 coup plunged the country into war.
  — Aakash Hassan, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2024
• Last week, the center forecasted the aurora would be visible across the northwestern U.S. and some midwestern states as the display of greenish and reddish hues occur more often.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
• At an ancient burial site in Xinjiang in northwestern China, at least three bodies entombed thousands of years ago were buried with something apparently very dear to them: Cheese.
  — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024