How to Use southern in a Sentence

southern

adjective
  • After the memorial went on show at a cafe run by his brother in the southern city of Gyeongju, a photo of the tombstone went viral.
    Reuters, CNN, 18 June 2022
  • And there’s a moderate chance of flash flooding in central and southern Utah on Wednesday and Thursday.
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 June 2022
  • In Beirut's southern suburbs, smoke rose and the streets were empty Saturday after the area was pummeled overnight by heavy Israeli airstrikes.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 29 Sep. 2024
  • In a southern city, smoke filled the air as soldiers practicing urban combat shuffled past fake storefronts of bubble tea shops and cafes, exchanging gunfire with combatants.
    New York Times, 13 June 2022
  • An excessive heat warning has been issued from southern inland California to Arizona.
    Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News, 15 June 2022
  • Boulder, Utah Enjoy everything southern Utah has to offer in this off-grid cave that the host actually blasted from free-standing rock.
    J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine, 17 June 2022
  • Yemen, where the Houthis are based, is at the southern end of the Red Sea.
    Morgan Fischer, The Arizona Republic, 13 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Biden sent 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border.
    Arcelia Martin, Dallas News, 16 May 2023
  • Many serve pancakes and omelets, but not southern favorites.
    Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Jan. 2024
  • By Thursday, this storm will bring rain to northern Arizona and rain for southern.
    Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 30 Dec. 2023
  • The forecast for southern Utah is much the same, just several degrees warmer.
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Oct. 2022
  • But a growing number have fled by boat on the dangerous 90-mile journey to the southern coast of the United States.
    Megan Janetsky, Sun Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Abu Issa and her family came here from the southern city of Rafah in mid-May, nearly three weeks ago.
    Anas Baba, NPR, 4 June 2024
  • Other spots in Utah, such as the Straight Cliffs in the southern part of the state, may contain the relevant fossils to answer those questions.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 June 2023
  • The fresh all-time high comes as excessive heat has gripped large parts of the U.S., Russia and southern Europe in recent days.
    Sam Meredith, CNBC, 24 July 2024
  • Seizing part of Kursk shifted the momentum of the war—although not decisively—and forced the Kremlin to divert elite forces from the fighting in eastern and southern Ukraine.
    David Axe, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024

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