How to Use southernmost in a Sentence

southernmost

adjective
  • 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
  • Santa Maria, the southernmost island in the chain, for example, boasts the only white-sand beaches in the region.
    Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Cincinnati was once the southernmost city in the western batch of National League teams, so there was a better chance of warmer weather.
    Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 28 Mar. 2023

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