How to Use southern in a Sentence

southern

adjective

• Yemen, where the Houthis are based, is at the southern end of the Red Sea.
  — Morgan Fischer, The Arizona Republic, 13 Jan. 2024
• Four were killed in southern Afghanistan and two in the east.
  — New York Times, 14 May 2022
• The storms could start in southern parts of the state as early as 5 or 6 p.m., Hood said.
  — Remington Miller, Arkansas Online, 15 Feb. 2023
• April 5, when a slew of twisters rampaged through the middle and southern parts of the state.
  — Mandi Albright, ajc, 3 May 2022
• The barricades in the southern port city of Odessa were raised.
  — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2022
• The comet will appear in the southern part of Aries at the start of the month, then move toward Taurus.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Jan. 2024
• Those who live in the southern part of the state can also catch her in Tampa Aug. 16.
  — al, 6 Feb. 2023
• In the past two decades, telescopes have been set up across southern Africa.
  — Sarah Wild, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2022
• The southern tip of Africa is feeling the brunt of the Covid omicron travel bans.
  — Monica Hersher, NBC News, 30 Nov. 2021
• The strikes along Ukraine’s southern coastline fit with that plan.
  — New York Times, 3 Apr. 2022
• Rafael is expected to move across the southern Gulf over the next few days.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
• The storm is on track to slam the southern and central portions of the country Thursday.
  — Taylor Ward, CNN, 15 Dec. 2021
• The best chance for this mix of precipitation is in the southern parts of the area, and any amounts are light.
  — Matthew Rogers, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2023
• The agency said in the U.S., most infections have been linked to swimming in southern states.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 30 Aug. 2023
• And the frigid temperatures are going to reach all the way to southern Utah.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Dec. 2021
• Surrounded by muck and covered in grime, a large object sat on the seafloor off the southern coast of Italy.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
• On the southern side of the storm system, heavy rain and severe thunderstorms will move across parts of the Southeast.
  — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2023
• The first embryo transfer will be with a southern white rhino as a test.
  — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2022
• The eastern front line, near the besieged city of Bakhmut, is less mined than the wide fields of the southern Zaporizhzhia region.
  — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2023
• The district used to be a GOP stronghold, covering the rural southern half of the state.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2022
• The variant, which is believed to have emerged this fall in southern Africa, looks poised to take over the world, as delta did before it.
  — Celina Tebor, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2021
• The Abyss Pool, in the southern area of the national park in Wyoming, is a 53-foot-deep hot spring, one of the deepest at Yellowstone.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 18 Aug. 2022
• Starting in 1973, the state looked at moving deer to the southern tip of the Kenai Peninsula.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Nov. 2021
• Stars on Mars was filmed in Coober Pedy, an opal-mining town in southern Australia.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 15 May 2023
• Toro Muerto is in the mountains of southern Peru along the coast of the Pacific Ocean.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
• The areas in the southern part of the blaze have begun the repopulation process.
  — Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2024
• Madill is a southern Oklahoma city near the state's border with Texas.
  — Dale Denwalt, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2022
• Biden sent 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border.
  — Arcelia Martin, Dallas News, 16 May 2023
• Four days later, sirens sounded as rockets flew out of Gaza and into southern Israel.
  — Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2024
• The Republic’s coverage of southern Arizona is funded, in part, with a grant from Report for America.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 21 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Jan 2025