How to Use southernmost in a Sentence
southernmost
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And that means the southernmost tree in the whole world.
— National Geographic, 7 July 2020 -
From there, walk to the right of the dog park to reach its southernmost side.
— Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023 -
But a few held out in the southernmost corner of the Sunshine State.
— Freda Kreier, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023 -
The wolves, a male and a female, would become the southernmost pack in Arizona and the first in the Sky Islands in decades.
— The Arizona Republic, 4 May 2024 -
Tamil Nadu is the southernmost state in India and about 1,200 miles south of New Delhi.
— Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 25 Jan. 2024 -
The massive buoy, built in 1983, marks the location of, as the name suggests, the southernmost point in the United States.
— Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 10 Aug. 2023 -
John and Eliza Little walked hundreds of miles from Cairo, the state’s southernmost point, to Chicago in the dead of night.
— Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2023 -
The initial report came in about 5 p.m. and said the aircraft had crashed near the southernmost tip of the Big Island, Johnasen said.
— CBS News, 9 June 2022 -
For weeks, the Gaza Strip’s southernmost city, Rafah, was one of the few places where desperate Gazans could find some aid and food.
— Matthew Mpoke Bigg, New York Times, 24 May 2024 -
The vehicle lifted off the launch pad near Brownsville, Texas, on the state’s southernmost tip.
— Jackie Wattles, CNN, 21 Apr. 2023 -
Most people who fled their homes are now in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city.
— Cate Brown, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024 -
The Israeli offensive began in the north of Gaza and has pushed all the way to the outskirts of the southernmost city of Rafah, on the Egyptian border.
— Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024 -
Tucked along the southernmost shore of New Zealand’s South Island is a hidden gem — lots of them.
— Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 23 May 2024 -
An initial report that came in at around 5 p.m. said the aircraft had crashed near the southernmost tip of the Big Island, Johnasen said.
— Antonio Planas, NBC News, 9 June 2022 -
Here along the southernmost edges of San Francisco Bay, the water glimmered a strange tinge of red.
— Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2022 -
The imagery shows that the northernmost and southernmost vehicles were more than a mile and a half apart.
— Aric Toler, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024 -
It is set along the southernmost shore and is a whopping eight hours from the South Island’s main city of Christchurch and almost three hours from Queenstown.
— Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 23 May 2024 -
Pahrump is a small town not far from the California state line, at the southernmost tip of Nye County where Fiore is a justice of the peace.
— Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 18 July 2024 -
Vivio's is near the southernmost part of Eastern Market, away from where the shooting occurred on the north side.
— Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 16 Sep. 2024 -
His grave is near the path dividing the southernmost section of the cemetery from the columbarium wall, where the urns are housed.
— David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023 -
The real concern, as Wadham’s work on the southernmost continent has helped show, is the glaciers holding back the ice sheet.
— David James, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Apr. 2022 -
At this moment, the sun’s daily southward movement in the sky appears to pause, and the sun rises and sets at its southernmost points on the horizon.
— Justin Grieser, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2022 -
An Israeli airstrike on Sunday killed at least 45 people in a tent camp near Gaza's southernmost city.
— Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 29 May 2024 -
Earth’s southernmost continent once was home to rivers and forests teeming with life.
— Reuters, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2023 -
The crash was reported around 3:30 a.m. Sunday by two men who had been asleep at a campsite near the island’s southernmost point.
— Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024 -
Shaped like a buoy, the 12-foot-tall marker sits at the southernmost point of the continental United States, just 90 miles from Cuba.
— Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2022 -
Cameron sits at the southernmost tip of Texas, and each year millions of people cross to and from Mexico at the four border crossings in the Brownsville region.
— Dallas News, 16 Feb. 2023 -
Historic sections on the southernmost part of the site will be remodeled for city offices.
— Star Tribune Staff Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021 -
Cal Fire said officials had allowed residents to begin returning home in the southernmost area where the fire burned.
— Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2024 -
The luxury cruise line Silversea is getting into the hotel business, building a 150-room outpost that the company says will be the southernmost property in the world.
— Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 2 Oct. 2024
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