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Sentence Examples If the magnetic field in the solar wind is directed southward, it can interconnect with the Earth's northward-oriented magnetic field. After a period of time in Ternate, she left and sailed southward of the Celebes where they stopped at an island and graved the ship for 26 days. Only in the west, on the Isle of Purbeck, did some minor southward drainage develop across the monocline. They grade both northward and southward into coalesced alluvial fans forming the bajada that flanks the margins of the mountains. The Dinaric Alps that cover this area also extend southward into Serbia and Montenegro. He passed that way a second time two days later, on his way back southward to Fort Lyon and thence to Denver, where he received a hero's welcome. Halted in its southward move by the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea, Burmese encountered the Mon language. In the far north-west, the splinter-like peninsula of Lower California, with its high sierras, is a southward extension of the Sierra Nevada. But until then, the best way to ride out a Toba eruption is to do so in a place a bit to the eastward, and a bit to the southward. A high wooded ridge that runs southward from the mouth of the Orne marked the boundary of the triangle to be held. The seas were calm and the breeze blowing steadily southward seemed to lessen. In 1993 a lead counterweight of about 660 tons was placed on the north side of the tower's base in order to stop the southward rotation. There's a feeling that the city is ready to face up to these challenges and to halt the southward drift of its most energetic citizens. In NZ we might expect, for example, southward invasion by weeds presently limited by temperature. Ordinarily, cold, dense water in the extreme North Atlantic sinks to great depths and flows southward through the Atlantic. Invasions from southern India, combined with internecine strife, pushed Sinhalese kingdoms southward. Better yet, take your U.S. dollars southward and enjoy the advantageous exchange rate. Looking southward I can see the fifteenth-century tower of the university's Saint Salvator's College chapel. Facing the other way at the mezzanine level, an office space, separated by a glass wall, looks southward onto the street. Most structures can be explained by eastward retreat of the Pacific and Philippine slabs and southward retreat of the Sunda slab. Show More Sentences Menard lies only eighty miles north of the New Madrid Fault system that extends southward from Cairo, Illinois. When the hot wind has spent its strength, it is usually succeeded instantaneously by a violent gust from the southward. The currents start in the North Atlantic when the dense, salty surface waters sink to the ocean floor and begin to roll southward. However, permafrost covered large northern areas and many habitats were fragmented and displaced southward. It bends sharply to the right and flows southward, almost parallel to the lake shore, for more than 30 miles, to its debouchure at Milwaukee. More of these Gulfstream waters are recirculating southward in the subtropical gyre and less are extending northwards into high latitudes. In Vedic astrology this time of year marks the end of the sun's southward movement and the beginning of its movement north. It is a shale-hosted flint, passing northward into marine shale and southward into marine clay ironstone. With help from Australian and Indonesian military personnel, U.S. forces loaded supplies for immediate delivery southward. Our scrambles in the Alps eventually, albeit circuitously, lead us southward to Italy. It was a beautiful sunny afternoon and I was letting down over the Adriatic heading southward. Finally, Antarctica is antipodal to the Arctic Ocean, mostly, as if its core had been pushed southward. Overall the temporal progradation of nappe emplacement and high-pressure metamorphism towards the south mimics the southward retreat of the Hellenic subduction zone. On the twenty-first, the weather being unusually pleasant, we again made sail to the southward, with the resolution of penetrating in that course as far as possible. A comparison of Colombian tobacco imports with US tobacco exports reveals just how many contraband cigarettes were being shipped southward from the United States. This terrace is carefully organized to provide welcoming porches on the northern side, and to give southward views of the dramatic landscape over the games field. This increase is probably not solely the result of increased organizational effort, but may represent part of a larger-scale southward shift in the winter range of harp seals. A southward depression of the treeline in favour of wet heaths, bogs and wetland tundra communities is also observed in northern oceanic environments. Ospreys on their southward journeys flew in widely spaced single file above the marsh, some flapping deeply, others soaring gull-like, with wings bowed. The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation carries warm upper waters into far-northern latitudes and returns cold deep waters southward across the Equator. Show More Sentences A new tornado watch has just been issued right here, covering the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, southward down to just west of Houston, includes the Austin-San Antonio area. Despite equatorial air being ever present on the fringes of this anticyclonic area, there are many years in Namibia when southward incursions rarely, if ever, occur. In Arctic-nesting birds, such as geese, young have little time to complete their growth and acquire the fat reserves required for the southward migration. Dawn had set the eastern horizon ablaze when they set out southward again. The result will be an epic cold air outbreak, with much of the coldness being channeled southward from Greenland. Once again, the Americans had essentially reassumed control of the airfield by operating the air traffic control system that extended southward from Thule to Newfoundland. A general, well-known trend of North American migration is that birds fly in a northward direction in the spring and a southward direction in the fall. Economists have discovered the renaissance in Manchester and other northern cities has reversed the traditional southward trend of the migrating workforce. Then the express cars were moved by a switcher from the siding southward via the main track, and they were added to the rear of the New York section. The eastern limb of the Klip River emanates from the park and flows southward, into other areas of Soweto, until it reaches the Vaal River further in the South. In the northern hemisphere, the Sun crosses the celestial equator moving southward. Afterward, when company profits had ventured a bit too far southward, the CFO began to get nervous. Yakutsk soon turned into a major starting point for further Russian expeditions eastward, southward and northward. In the 7th century, they moved westward to the Elbe, southward to the Danube and eastward to the Dnieper. The first inhabitants were the Britons, who came from Armenia, and first peopled Britain southward. It extends southward into the Indian Ocean with the Arabian Sea to the southwest and the Bay of Bengal to the southeast. It comprises a southward extension to the Grand Pump Room, in which some remains of the C17 Queen's Bath are merged. The old man says Slains is now inhabited by a Mr. Bowles, who comes so far from the southward that naebody kens whare he comes frae. South Korea has constructed a border barrier between its territory and North Korea to obstruct any southward movement by the army of North Korea. Adal's headquarters were again relocated the following century, this time southward to Harar. Show More Sentences Ifat established bases in Djibouti and northern Somalia, and from there expanded southward to the Ahmar Mountains. The Germans then broke through the fortification line as defending French forces retreated southward. In the latter part of the century William Wallace chased a fleeing English force southward through the Nith valley. The initial route was to run southward from Chattanooga to a terminus east of the Chattahoochee River, which would then be linked to Savannah. In 1864, the Union Army moved southward following the capture of Chattanooga and began its invasion of north Georgia. Harbor seals are normally found along the Atlantic Coast and islands from Maine southward to Massachusetts. Afonso Henriques and his successors, aided by military monastic orders, pushed southward to drive out the Moors. Heraklion was surrounded by high walls and bastions and extended westward and southward by the 17th century. The military actions surrounding the Albigensian Crusade helped prepare the expansion of France southward. The Assiniboine and the Plains Cree undertook southward journeys to the village Indians, either for trade or for war. There are over 2,900 species of snakes ranging as far northward as the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia and southward through Australia. Africa is the largest of the three great southward projections from the largest landmass of the Earth. On the heights of Ouarzazate the massif is cut through by the Draa Valley which opens southward. A pattern which resulted in northward Sverdrup transport in divergence regions and southward in convergence regions. Then, the Baffin Island Current and Labrador Current transport cold and less saline water southward along the Canadian coast. North Atlantic Deep Water flowing southward is integral to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. The relatively warm, moist air meets cold air coming southward from Canada. Those migrating southward would then be able to occupy much of South America without encountering climates that were markedly different. Currents flow through this canyon southward, mixing offshore waters with the Nova Scotia Current. It consequently appears that the climate change played an important role in this southward expansion into continental Europe. Show More Sentences Russia continued to expand southward and eastward into former Mongol lands. Under Godigisel's son Gunderic, the Vandals plundered their way westward and southward through Aquitaine. Alaric, again outwitted by an enemy's machinations, marched southward and in deadly earnest, began his third siege of Rome. The Cape Cross pillar probably marked the end of his progress southward, some 1,400 kilometers. This fault continues southward under Almirantazgo Fjord and then below Fagnano Lake. In the remotest parts, the shadows fall southward, and even Arcturus is not visible. The transportation of sand southward along the Atlantic Coast of Florida by longshore drift ends in the area of the Safety Valve. French colonists and Jesuit missionaries arrived southward from Montreal for trade and proselytizing. He established himself in Kabul and then pushed steadily southward into India from Afghanistan through the Khyber Pass. Nether Beck swings away from Seatallan on its southward journey, diverted by the rocky height of Middle Fell. Beyond Slight Side is a rough upland with many craggy tops and a number of tarns, before the southward descent finally ends in Lower Eskdale. The main ridge continues southward, stepping down Great and Little How Crags to the depression of Levers Hawse. The other reason for the close cultural links is the clear pattern of net southward migration. Their finest thinkers and ablest warriors migrated southward. As we worked to the southward, we picked up fair weather, and enjoyed smooth seas and pleasant skies. The Mexican long-tongued bat, Choeronycteris mexicana, is primarily found southward from northern Mexico to El Salvador and Honduras. On the right, facing southward, rises Graylock, all beshagged with forest, and with headlong precipices of rock appearing among the black pines. Ten receivers were deployed across the mouth of Plymouth Bay, from Gurnet Point in Duxbury southward to Rocky Point in Plymouth. The Coast Horned Lizard, Phrynosoma coronatum, occurs from the Sacramento Valley, southward to the tip of Baja California. Other boundary changes in the county included the expansion of the county borough of Sheffield southward in areas historically in Derbyshire such as Dore. Show More Sentences The tarn is prevented from following what would appear the natural line of drainage into Miterdale by moraines, and empties southward, reaching the Esk at Beckfoot. An easy ridge then steps down southward over Long Green to Slight Side. Grasmoor and its supporters restrict the southward panorama, but there is no such obstruction to the north, the Scottish Hills being visible across the Solway Firth. By the end of the 6th century, Frisian territory had expanded westward to the North Sea coast and, in the 7th century, southward down to Dorestad. He continued southward to the Persian Gulf, when, after escaping with his fleet a tidal bore on the Tigris, he received the submission of Athambelus, the ruler of Charax. There, in turn, the winds curve southward towards the Iberian Peninsula. However, the main southward invasion of sigmodontines preceded formation of the land bridge by at least several million years, probably occurring via rafting. This volcanic arc was formed above a subduction zone where the oceanic lithosphere of the Iapetus Ocean subducted southward under other oceanic lithosphere. Through stream capture, the Rhine extended its watershed southward. Bute Park also dominates the northwest of the area, running behind Cardiff Castle along the River Taff southward to Westgate Street and northward to Gabalfa. In addition, a zone of permafrost stretched southward from the edge of the glacial sheet, a few hundred kilometres in North America, and several hundred in Eurasia. During the Migration Period the Germanic tribes expanded southward. During the rest of the century they moved its frontier southward to the banks of the Dore, the Worm Brook and a stream then known as the Taratur, annexing northern Ergyng. The main rivers are the Muonio, Ounas, Ivalo, Tana, Kitinen, and Kemi. With the exception of Tana, they all drain southward into the Gulf of Bothnia. It was also possible, if RAF losses became severe, that they could pull out to the north, wait for the German invasion, then redeploy southward again. In 1527, Charles' army in northern Italy, underpaid and desiring to plunder the city of Rome, mutinied, advanced southward toward Rome, and sacked the city. While Renaissance ideas were moving north from Italy, there was a simultaneous southward spread of some areas of innovation, particularly in music. She missed the fish diet of her own country, and twice every summer she sent the boys to the river, twenty miles to the southward, to fish for channel cat. The MSU is modelled as being a southward plunging, lenticular body that runs parallel to, but above, the coarse grained feldspathic peridotite intrusion. Examples from Classical Literature But the island roti, which lies to the southward, is the best mark to know this place. This would force the storm track southward in spite of the contrary tendency due to the sun. But as we proceed southward into the State of Washington, we find more and more evidences of cultivation and inhabitancy. We may take Scolia for an example of a subdominant group beginning more southward. Dunedin is connected by rail with Christchurch northward and Invercargill southward, with numerous branches. In some places to the southward they distinguish two kinds only, lado sudul and lado Jambi. The river is leveed 15 miles down, and the system is being extended southward. There was a light air from the southward, and there was not a cloud in the sky. There was but a light air from the southward, insufficient to enable her get under way. The winds for some days after leaving Tenerife were mostly from the southward. Thence marching southward, he threated Nisibis, which is said, to have been within a little of yielding itself. A little to the southward, however, the gigantic Mayon rears its peak 8000 feet into the sky. It is looking southward that we see the disordered ranks of the mountain range. To the southward a dense mulga Scrub commences, and clothes the whole face of the hills as far as the eye can reach. As Anjou advanced southward, Partenay was abandoned without a blow, and after occupying it he pushed on toward Niort. The venturer swept southward like a living thing, her oars pulled now by free and willing hands. This physiographic region covers most of the state and extends northward into Texas and a short distance southward into Veracruz. High beyond the votaress's bow the stars of the west swung as if they shifted southward. In accordance with this agreement Haakon now moved southward and took up his residence in Oslo. Here, among the red fruit of rowan and whitebeam, the ring-ousel lingers on his southward journey. Show More Sentences Away southward lies a black streak on the sky-line and the windsail flickers a little. The sky to the southward is a jet-black mass of clouds, and the windsail is yawing in a strong, cool breeze. Lofty mountains, sublime in their grandeur, overtower and surround this place, and its only exposure is southward toward the sun. This morning the mate reported that there were signs of pack ice to the southward. After Wuchang, the line turning more southward, proceeds to Fengtechang and then follows the same direction to Omu. We recall that from the mouth of the panuco River southward, we found evidence of considerable population in olden times. Through the creaming surges of Table Bay the rangatira is speeding on her southward course. Geese and black ducks, making their way to the southward, were met with daily. The hostility of the Algonquian tribes seems to have been the cause of the southward migration of the Iroquoian peoples. The American avocet breeds from Washington southward and spends its winters from central California south. But blit would not take the time to make the long cruise southward to the island kingdoms where she recruited her buccaneers. Our lugs were hoisted, for the wind had come round to the southward, and away we stood for Cephalonia. It is rare north of Chesapeake Bay, but it is abundant from there southward, in winter. Parallel with it, a short distance to the southward, is a ravine several miles in length, known as coal pit Hollow. We had gone southward, having got a full ship, when we struck on a coral reef. The column was re-formed at sain Kaleh and proceeded by easier stages 200 miles further southward to Hamadan. A freight train dragged southward in the twilight, wending its way through pine forest and scrubland. It stands on a small river which flows to the southward and westward into the Dnieper. The dopy cook scuffled to his feet and stumbled over to the rail, hung there, peering intently southward. He pursued his investigations as far as Roubaix, then swept southward to Douai. Show More Sentences The wind shifted about this time, to a gentle breeze from the southward and eastward. The car he had caught must have gone southward from Evanston about ten forty-five. We, however, got to the southward of the Falkland Islands without accident. From Virginia southward, the people know the fox sparrow only as a winter resident. The species definitely is known from southeastern Arizona southward to Guanajuato. It was bounded on the north by the Guntur circar, and thence it stretched southward to Cape Comorin. From here a line of fairly bright stars marks the course of Serpens southward to the hand of Ophiuchus. In parts of the country, especially from Connecticut southward, the hay-scented fern is one of the abundant plants. But she shook her head at the advice and drove on southward in the darkness. They followed the South Fork for some distance, and then, turning southward and southwestward, crossed the plains of Colorado. To the southward, for fifty miles at least, nothing but igneous rocks can be seen. For the tug belonged to a row of piers about a mile to the southward. For a hundred and twenty-five miles to southward was unbroken land. Then commenced the trip southward, through the Lesser Antilles. River-swamps in southern Indiana to Wisconsin, and southward. Our aero was drifting downward and southward in the slight wind. Drive to the first station beyond York, northward, southward, or eastward, as may be hereafter determined. He and 109 his antlered cows were migrating southward by slow stages. Then he dived and made sure of the mouth of the tunnel, and raced through to the southward. The brig must have been about a day's run to the southward of Bermuda. Show More Sentences Beyond this the waters trend southward and toward Tanganyika. Pluck up your courage, and we'll let Townleys and MacNairs whistle their mouldy feuds down the wind while we sail southward in The Fair Lady. From Mukden southward the line is owned and worked by China. A deep-water species which occurs off Chesapeake Bay and southward. Each August as thousands of Sandhill Cranes begin their southward progress from Alaska, the Tanana Valley rings with gathering calls. At conch, by this time, the mail-boat would be due on the southward trip. So they must have remained in succoth or have turned southward. I was a hetman among the Free Companions before I rode southward. The Wieroo wheeled and dropped almost to sea-level, and then raced southward in an effort to outdistance our pursuers. I stood on the high coast of Kepler Land where it trends southward. The thunderstorm of war had now rolled southward, and did not again burst upon Massachusetts, where its first fury had been felt. After following Lake Barlee for nine miles, it turned to the southward. That part of the ecliptic whence the sun descends southward. That is the Orontes, and it is the only water in sight, with the exception of the Mediterranean, which stretches, like a broad mirror, about twelve miles off to the southward. The journey took him far southward, through green Touraine and across the far-shining Loire, into a country where the early spring deepened about him as he went. The journey southward, the first glimpse of the ocean, the strange new scenes, the ease and delicious freedom, the intimacy with Miss Maxwell, almost intoxicated Rebecca. Churchill's accountshe has not been well the whole winter, and thinks Enscombe too cold for her so they are all to move southward without loss of time. We rested in Jor's village for a fortnight while we prepared for the southward journey to the point where the Toreador was to lie off shore in wait for us. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of southward? Words that rhyme with southward What is the plural of southward? What is the adverb for southward? What is the adjective for southward? What is the noun for southward? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words south-southwest south-south-east south-southeast southside Southron southron Southward southwardly southwards Southwards Southwark southwest 9-letter Words Starting With s so sou sout south southw southwa southwar