How to Use northeastern in a Sentence

northeastern

adjective
  • The park sits on Navajo lands in the northeastern part of the state.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The northeastern island is breezy year-round, and those winds can pick up in the winter and spring.
    Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2024
  • In late July, a roseate spoonbill spent some time in the northeastern part of the state near Green Bay.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023
  • In Oregon last year, wildlife troopers found eight dead wolves in the northeastern part of the state.
    CBS News, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Teixeira was born in 1935, in Irajuba, a small town in the northeastern state of Bahia.
    Alejandro Chacoff, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The shooting unfolded just before 1 a.m. ET on Meade Street in the northeastern part of the city.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 5 July 2023
  • Francine was moving in a northeastern path at 12 miles per hour.
    Kevin Drew, NPR, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The ancient serpent lived in the steamy swamps of the Eocene over 40 million years ago, in what is now northeastern Colombia.
    Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Soto ended up at the prison in Susanville in the remote northeastern corner of the state.
    Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • So is the decision to turn more of the northeastern section of the bay back into wetlands.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2024
  • Hervey Bay is along the northeastern coast and about 600 miles northeast of Sydney.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
  • They had been held captive since crossing into the northeastern state of Tamaulipas from the Texas city of Brownsville on March 3.
    Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The catamounts were known as an eastern cougar and mostly seen in northeastern states and in Canada.
    Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2023
  • He had been sent to northeastern China in 2019 to earn money for the North Korean regime.
    Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 9 July 2023
  • On the Rhine, with its 139 apartments, offers the same thing to locals wanting to live closer to the northeastern edge of Downtown.
    Randy Tucker, The Enquirer, 16 May 2023
  • The least populous county in the state, Tyrrell lies in the northeastern coastal plain, on the southern shore of Albemarle Sound.
    Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 7 June 2024
  • That area of northeastern Japan is still battling to recover even a decade after the tragedy.
    Stephen Wade, ajc, 9 July 2022
  • Oscar could stall near the northeastern coast of Cuba within 36 to 48 hours.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Reports of new shelling came as Russia appeared to lose more ground around the northeastern city of Lyman.
    Jon Gambrell and Adam Schreck, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Smoke from more than 100 wildfires burning in Quebec has cast a thick haze over much of the northeastern United States.
    Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 7 June 2023
  • Kursk lies across the border from Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region.
    Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Since then, the front lines in Ukraine’s northeastern region have been largely static.
    Vivian Salama, WSJ, 29 July 2022
  • North Dakota has 17 border crossings, and the one at Pembina on Interstate 29 in the northeastern part of the state is the busiest.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 12 July 2022
  • In the frigid forests of the Russian Far East and northeastern China, these burly cats stalk a variety of prey including birds, boars, and bears.
    Byjack Tamisiea, science.org, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Most of the growth has been concentrated in the northeastern part of the county, just a few miles from Walt Disney World in metro Orlando.
    Mike Schneider, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Drueke, 39, and Huynh, 27, were captured by Russian forces outside the city of Kharkiv, near Ukraine’s northeastern border.
    Alex Horton, Washington Post, 12 July 2022
  • They are found in the northeastern Pacific, along the western coast of Canada and up into the Gulf of Alaska, according to the study.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 1 July 2024
  • Across the state, torrential rains led to flooding mainly focused in the northeastern and southern areas of the state.
    Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 30 July 2024
  • The other shows the storm making a harder westward turn in the Gulf, which could weaken the storm or result in landfall in northeastern Mexico.
    Mary Gilbert, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Arizona saw a relatively smooth day of voting Tuesday, save for technical issues and long lines in the northeastern corner of the state.
    Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 6 Nov. 2024

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