How to Use southbound in a Sentence

southbound

adjective

• The southbound lanes are closed to traffic.
• The incident led to the closure of the southbound lanes of the bridge.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
• The crash shut down the southbound side of the bridge for hours, while the northbound side was closed briefly.
  — Susan Haigh, Fortune, 2 May 2024
• Two left lanes are blocked and southbound side is slowed.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2022
• At one point, the southbound lanes of the nearby 405 Freeway were briefly shut down.
  — Jay L. Clendenin, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• The first one a few weeks ago affected southbound lanes of I-5.
  — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2023
• The right lane will be closed at Highway 100 southbound long term.
  — Drake Bentley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2022
• The attack took place on the southbound 7 train around 8:40 a.m., police said.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 13 June 2022
• On the same night, crews will close the southbound exit to Chimney Rock Road for about two months.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 4 May 2022
• The boy was flung into the southbound lanes where he was run over by a driver who did not see him.
  — David Harris, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Nov. 2022
• Some of the biggest savings can be found on southbound routes.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 June 2024
• This stirred up southbound, high-speed gales that promoted the advance of the flames.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Aug. 2023
• To reach the crossing, Mr. Alshawamreh rose at 5 a.m. and waited in the darkness for a southbound car pool.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
• Once complete, work will be done to do the same on the southbound side, city officials said.
  — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 2 Aug. 2023
• Traffic will be shifted to the southbound side of the roadway and tunnels during the work.
  — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 3 Jan. 2024
• Both southbound bores of the tunnel are closed while first responders are on the scene.
  — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2022
• The southbound lane has since reopened, but the northbound lane remains closed.
  — ABC News, 25 Feb. 2023
• The suspect walked out of the bar and was headed southbound on Lakeland from Madison.
  — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland, 27 Aug. 2022
• Another speed check was installed on the southbound curve, but not the north.
  — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 12 Aug. 2022
• The crash forced the closure of a carpool lane until about 5:15 p.m. and caused southbound traffic to back up.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Feb. 2022
• The car veered off southbound Interstate 5 and overturned in the creek below.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024
• The northbound and southbound I-17 ramps to eastbound I-10 also will be closed.
  — Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 26 Jan. 2024
• Two of the five crashes were fatal, with one death in a crash on the northbound side and two on the southbound side of the interstate.
  — Judson Jones and Monica Garrett, CNN, 3 Mar. 2022
• The southbound journey makes the same stops in the reverse direction.
  — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2024
• The Ford Fusion crossed the turn lane, went into the southbound lanes, and eventually left the road and struck a pole.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Apr. 2022
• The bicyclist was found in the righthand lane of southbound North Oak Trafficway, and pronounced dead at the scene.
  — Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2024
• But compare the late-June nonstop prices for southbound flights.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2022
• The entrance and exit ramps to and from the southbound stretch of the Turnpike at Commercial Boulevard were closed as of 8:30 a.m.
  — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
• The Jetta was headed southbound on the roadway at the time of the crash, while the Accord was heading northbound.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 24 May 2022
• The two lanes will be next to southbound I-17 lanes and separated from those lanes by a concrete barrier.
  — Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 2 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024