How to Use northwestern in a Sentence

northwestern

adjective
  • 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
  • In the northwestern city of Herat, men have sold their kidneys on the black market.
    New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Wellstar is a major health system across the northwestern part of the state.
    Timothy Pratt, ajc, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The storms will enter the northwestern corner of the state around noon and lasting until about 5 p.m.
    Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 6 Apr. 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
  • Winds will be particularly strong on the northwestern, or back, side of the storm, NHC warned.
    Andrew Freedman, Axios, 9 Oct. 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
  • State of play: Peak fall foliage is now on display in northwestern Utah, with the rest of the state expected to reach partial to peak levels by Oct. 21.
    Kim Bojórquez, Axios, 18 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Meanwhile, chances are higher, at up to 60 percent, for above-average precipitation in northern and central Indiana, northwestern Ohio and the southern half of Michigan.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The rain started in northwestern California on Tuesday afternoon and it isn’t expected to stop until Friday morning.
    Max Golembo, ABC News, 20 Nov. 2024

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