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Sentence Examples They watched with mounting concern as swarms of locusts began to sweep southwards from breeding grounds in North Africa. They were displaced by livestock-breeding black tribes that moved southwards for better grazing in pre-colonial times. However, traffic that does use the zone will move southwards, rather than northwards as at present, and there will be a 20 mph speed limit. Rather than retrace our steps, we continued southwards, traversing the mountain down to a pass called Bwlch Tryfan. Start the walk on the main village street and head southwards, in the opposite direction to the bridge over the River Tame. The streets are busy, with small groups heading steadily southwards towards the nightclub. The remainder of the clan had over the year migrated southwards towards the porcelain industry in Stourbridge. There are plenty of council flats in long blocks, some old and some new but almost all with satellite dishes pointing southwards. A blast of Arctic air, which will push southwards at the beginning of the week, is being blamed for the cold snap. In the afternoon they came to a wide, unfarmed meadow with a hill gently rising off to their left as they rode southwards. After we had lost all steerage way we were swept bodily southwards by the inblowing winds towards the cyclone's centre. It's probably advisable to push southwards following the track over the Cantabrian border. It faces southwards away from the road, and its large, pretty garden is a real sun-trap that you could probably sit in on a fine winter's day. The road to South Port was a long one however, stretching southwards for about 50 miles. At the same time the cold air moving southwards behind the low-pressure centre is losing height. The northern hemisphere has effectively eradicated itself in a nuclear war, and the fallout is creeping inexorably southwards. As long as the Germans held Caen, they denied access to the plain stretching southwards for just over 30 km. West of Moscow, the river, already a broad stream, turns sharply southwards and, widening and deepening as it goes, flows towards the Black Sea. During the harsh winter months, approximately 120 different species of bird migrate southwards. I ended up sitting reading it on the long journey southwards to London, with my highlighter and red pencil, marking the errors in the book as I read. Show More Sentences We then tranship the goods southwards to Felixstowe and Southampton. He drove along the M6 to the Scottish border then headed southwards. The Tsars used them to push the frontiers of Russia southwards and east, through Siberia and as far as the Pacific Ocean. The beds of sandstone dip gently southwards towards the South Wales Coalfield basin. The A425 road runs southwards from the town to Rhuddlan, St Asaph and Ruthin. From there, the polecat's northern border goes on to the upper Vychegda River, and descends further on southwards and in the Urals. A service every two hours from Holyhead to Cardiff also uses the Marches line from Shrewsbury southwards. Some species, such as the auks, do not have a concerted migration effort, but drift southwards as the winter approaches. Originally centred on the bay's eastern side, Bergen eventually expanded west and southwards. The Tenth Army was broken through and retreated to Rouen and southwards along the Seine. The Germans were known to be in Paris and advancing southwards, but information about German progress was inaccurate, mainly being rumour. David gladly accepted and personally led a Scots army southwards with intention of capturing Durham. The northern limits of the Southern Ocean were moved southwards in the IHO's 1937 second edition of the Limits of Oceans and Seas. But, a compilation of archaeosite dates throughout eastern Siberia suggest that the cooling period caused a retreat of humans southwards. In the 13th century, pack ice began advancing southwards in the North Atlantic, as did glaciers in Greenland. On a seasonal basis, it migrates southwards in spring and northwards in autumn. These, seeing the boldness of our men, abandoned the fort and fled southwards to the shelter of a copse. Brunswick then went on the attack, driving the French southwards and capturing Cassel before the war was halted by an armistice. The Black Sea outflow moves westward along the northern Aegean Sea, then flows southwards along the east coast of Greece. In the 3rd century, the Semnones shifted southwards and eventually ended up as part of the Alamanni people. Show More Sentences Their territory corresponds to the central part of modern Belgium, including Brussels, and stretched southwards into French Hainault. Ballomar then led the larger part of his host southwards towards Italy, while the remainder ravaged Noricum. Between the villages of Osterburken and Welzheim the limes ran for 81 kilometres almost in a straight line southwards. In the Late Middle Ages, the expansion of the Aragonese Crown southwards met with the Castilian advance eastward in the region of Murcia. Lowland barriers and diseases carried by the tsetse fly, however, prevented the donkey and agriculture from spreading southwards. Gaspar then sent his brother and two ships back to Portugal before continuing southwards. The Sierra Madre mountain range continues to stretch across the western section of Central Luzon, snaking southwards into the Bicol Peninsula. This may mean that the shift began in Italy, or that it spread southwards as well as northwards. It also has minor tracks running northwards and southwards via tidal fords, which are unsuitable for normal motor vehicles. It then runs near the southern margin of the national park via Trefil and the Llangattock escarpment to Blorenge where it turns southwards. The Vale of York is drained southwards by the River Ouse and its tributaries, the Ure, the Nidd and the Foss. Two heavy rail lines enter Rochdale from the east, joining at Rochdale railway station before continuing southwards to the city of Manchester. After leaving the moor, the Dart flows southwards past Buckfast Abbey and through the towns of Buckfastleigh, Dartington and Totnes. Peninsular Malaysia is a long stretch of land extending southwards from Thailand to the Straits of Johore, which separate it from Singapore. It is resident in much of its range, but some populations from the more northern parts migrate southwards in autumn. To the east of the Yorkshire Wolds the River Hull flows southwards to join the Humber Estuary at Kingston upon Hull. The Guadiana bends southwards and forms the border between Spain and Portugal in the last stretch of its course. In time this would deprive Wessex of its territories north of the Thames and the Avon, encouraging the kingdom's reorientation southwards. He established a second bishopric at Winchester, while the one at Dorchester was soon abandoned as Mercian power pushed southwards. The Coventry Canal, the Oxford Canal, and what is now the Grand Union Canal linked southwards to London. Show More Sentences With the fort now in British control Wellesley was able to extend control southwards to the river Godavari. To the east of the Yorkshire Wolds, the River Hull flows southwards to join the Humber Estuary at Kingston upon Hull. It follows the Vyrnwy to its confluence with the River Severn, and then continues southwards, rising over Long Mountain east of Welshpool. It is joined by the Smestow Brook at Prestwood before it winds around southwards to Kinver, and then flows back into Worcestershire. The two rheas were also distinct species, and on 14 March Darwin announced how their distribution changed going southwards. The airport lies a few miles away from the M1 motorway, which runs southwards to London, northwards to Leeds and connects to the M25 motorway. This flow eroded a path through the hills forming the gorge and permanently diverting the Severn southwards. The offensive continued southwards, besieging Doboj, thereby cutting of Serb forces in Bosanska Krajina from Semberija and Serbia. These rivers mainly flow southwards, with the Jubba River entering the Indian Ocean at Kismayo. During the Migration Period around the 5th century, many Germanic tribes moved westwards and southwards out of Central Europe. Galloway comprises that part of Scotland southwards from the Southern Upland watershed and westward from the River Nith. The river Nith runs through Dumfries toward the Solway Firth in a southwards direction splitting the town into East and West. A series of outcrops occur from East Lothian southwards through Berwickshire. The present day outcrop occupies a narrow zone from Dulas Bay on Anglesey's northeast coast, southwards to the town of Llangefni. The young birds migrate southwards for great distances and have even been recorded as far south as Ecuador. Within possibly 10,000 years, the steppe wildcat spread eastwards into Asia and southwards to Africa. The Old Course begins alongside the sea, running southwards in a line for the first six holes. The green hellebore, or bear's foot, Helleborus viridis, grows in scattered colonies from Lancashire southwards. The green hellebore or Bear's Foot, Helleborus viridis, is also native to England, growing in scattered localities from Lancashire southwards. Broadly speaking, the White Peak covers the Derbyshire Peaks from the Hope Valley southwards, and the Staffordshire Peaks north of the Churnet Valley. Show More Sentences To the east of the area the River Derwent drains southwards into the Ouse. During the baronial revolt against Henry, in 1264 the rebel army of Simon de Montfort passed southwards through Surrey on their way to the Battle of Lewes in Sussex. During the next few centuries Novgorodians engaged in fur trading with the local population and collected tribute from Yugra and Great Perm, slowly expanding southwards. As the Lancastrian army advanced southwards, a wave of dread swept London, where rumours were rife about savage northerners intent on plundering the city. Prince Petru also expanded his rule southwards to the Danube Delta. It seemeth that the Spaniards hitherto had never been in this part of the country, neither did ever discover the land by many degrees to the southwards of this place. The Maya civilization developed within the Mesoamerican cultural area, which covers a region that spreads from northern Mexico southwards into Central America. Around 370 AD, the line of fortifications was considerably strengthened under the Emperor Valentinian I to counter the Alemanni who were steadily advancing southwards. Alaric, having penetrated the city, marched southwards into Calabria. In the beginning of the 4th century, large parts of the Rugii moved southwards and settled at the upper Tisza in ancient Pannonia, in what is now modern Hungary. Its range extends southwards around the coast and into the Indian Ocean. One population migrates to the North Sea, another stays in of the Irish Sea, and the third population migrates southwards along the west coast of Scotland and Ireland. The limit then followed the west coast of Tasmania southwards to the South East Cape and then went eastwards to Broughton Island, New Zealand, before returning to Cape Horn. He was about twenty, and a deacon when, having completed his training at Movilla, he travelled southwards into Leinster, where he became a pupil of an aged bard named Gemman. The 3rd Army crossed the Meuse and attacked the French right flank and on 23 August, the Fifth Army began a retirement southwards to avoid encirclement. Here the coast stretches southwards for two and a half miles from Penarth Head to Lavernock Point, hidden from vessels travelling up the Bristol Channel. David's 2, which extended the shopping district southwards, creating 100 new stores and a flagship John Lewis, the only branch in Wales and the largest outside London. After an unsuccessful attempt to regain the throne, she fled southwards seeking the protection of her first cousin once removed, Queen Elizabeth I of England. Convinced that Melas was about to retreat, Napoleon sent strong detachments to block Melas's routes northwards to the Po, and southwards to Genoa. Shoshonitic magmatism younged southwards in the Superior Province, commensurate with the southwardly diachronous accretion of allochthonous subprovinces. Show More Sentences The mountains run from the Arctic Island of Novaya Zemlya southwards, dividing the endless wastes of the Siberian taiga and the steppes from the Russian platform in the west. Examples from Classical Literature All have gone southwards towards the Afric shore, seeking warmth and days of endless sunshine. They were in the deck-saloon of the dragonfly, steaming southwards from Valencia. Going southwards from Gandhara, in four days arrived at the kingdom of Purushapura. From South Georgia the ship's head was once more turned southwards, and before many days ice was again encountered. We complied, and they rode off southwards, Abu Dahook returning to his camp. Northwards the water drains to the Shuru-tso, southwards to the Raga-tsangpo. But as soon as the attack on the Bushmen begins, we will, all of us, make off as fast as we can southwards. I have records of its occurrence in abundance at various localities, from Napier southwards to Invercargill. Kociuszko was sent southwards, to Lublin, where he remained for the summer months. Louis, after the capture of Maastricht led his army southwards into Lorraine and overran the electorate of Trier. Thereafterwards Arjuna went southwards until he came to the Mahendra mountain. Cornelius, her son, had written her often and voluminously since her trip southwards. Then go, quite alone, down a road that you will find on your right hand, looking southwards. Then mother and son said good-by to Aberdeen, and at length traveled southwards to take possession of their great house and broad lands. A tiny puff of smoke had been circling the harbour, and now was bearing southwards towards them over the black and the gold. He besought me, therefore, to leave my solitary isle and to meet him at Perth, that we might proceed southwards together. This is due to the jet stream taking a sudden southwards plunge, allowing cold air from the north to flood across Ireland. She twisted and turned now southwards, now west, now northwards. From Ghazni southwards to Pannah there is nothing but open plain. Quintus and his companion went onwards, still to the southwards. Show More Sentences The center of Severe Tropical Cyclone Olwyn is tracking very close to the coast as it moves southwards across the Coral Bay area. Westwards and southwards, however, Sargon's arm swept a wider circuit. The tide of Moslim invasion swept across the Malay Peninsula southwards. They were seen yesterday north of Bapaume and southwards beyond Roye. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of southwards? Words that rhyme with southwards What is the adverb for southwards? What is the adjective for southwards? What is the noun for southwards? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words southwardly Southward southward south-southwest south-south-east south-southeast Southwards Southwark southwest southwester south-westerlies southwesterly 10-letter Words Starting With s so sou sout south southw southwa southwar southward