How to Use northward in a Sentence

northward

1 of 2 adverb or adjective

• The two lows will squeeze warmer air northward in the form of a high pressure ridge.
  — oregonlive, 11 May 2023
• Most of the Amazon’s water gushes northward, the shortest route to the sea.
  — Marina Dias, Washington Post, 12 June 2023
• The latest track shows Lee beginning to make a turn northward at the end of the period.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 9 Sep. 2023
• As the night advances, follow the Milky Way northward from Deneb to a small group of stars that resemble the letter W.
  — Geoff Chester, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• The bulk of the rain will fall from about Salem northward into southwest Washington.
  — oregonlive, 26 May 2022
• Overnight, those storms should move northward and keep up a chance of more widespread showers across the mountains.
  — oregonlive, 8 Aug. 2022
• Morning clouds could be heavy again Friday as the system along the coast weakens and lifts northward.
  — oregonlive, 7 July 2022
• And the eastern part of the state could get a little rain as Ian moves northward toward Georgia and the Carolinas.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 28 Sep. 2022
• But rapid rates of climatic change mean that trees likely can’t move northward at a pace that keeps up with their loss in the south.
  — David J. Cooper, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2023
• Behind them, a barrage of rockets, fired on the edge of a field just north of Beit Lahia, Gaza, are seen flying northward.
  — Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN, 8 Oct. 2023
• The leading edge of the warm and humid stuff is going to try to move northward during Thursday night and Friday.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
• In the months leading up to a summer solstice, the sun’s rays shift northward from the equator as Earth’s North Pole tilts further toward the sun.
  — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 20 June 2022
• The front will lift northward Friday and spread a swath of moderate to heavy snow from northern Illinois to the New England coast.
  — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
• Danielle is forecast to track slowly northward today and maybe pick up some speed and turn more to the northeast starting tonight.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 4 Sep. 2022
• Costa Rica northward to the border of Nicaragua and Honduras.
  — Roger Simmons, Orlando Sentinel, 2 July 2022
• Saturday will be the start of a quick heat up as high pressure builds back into the region and brings heat northward from the desert southwest.
  — oregonlive, 4 Aug. 2022
• The threat will shift northward on Sunday to include portions of Idaho and Wyoming in addition to Utah.
  — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 1 Sep. 2023
• Forces moving northward from there have stopped around 75 miles to the northwest in a town called Velyka Novosilka.
  — Washington Post, 5 May 2022
• Researchers report that the bacteria and infections spread northward up the East Coast at about 30 miles a year.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 8 Sep. 2023
• The weather service is expecting a warm front to move northward from the Gulf Coast and spread warmer, moist air over Alabama.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 28 Feb. 2023
• But the flows northward continue at a pace that has been mind-rattling for many Americans.
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2024
• The weather service will also be watching the progress of a front that could stall out over Alabama and then lift back northward as a warm front.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 27 June 2022
• Meanwhile low, warm, humid air streams northward from the Gulf of Mexico.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 11 May 2023
• On Tuesday, an area of low pressure was moving in off the coast, acting to help funnel the extreme heat northward into the UK.
  — Angela Dewan, CNN, 19 July 2022
• Another three people died in Cuba earlier in the week as the storm churned northward.
  — Meg Kinnard, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2022
• Forecasters will be watching for a warm front to move northward from the Gulf as a cold front advances toward Alabama from the west.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 11 Dec. 2022
• And that has prompted the lobster population to shift northward.
  — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2022
• As the storm climbs northward along the Southeast coast Sunday, rain will increase in coverage and intensity through the day.
  — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
• The organization recommend that sky gazers face northward away from the moon and use a tree or building to block out the moonlight.
  — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
• The incoming storm flung enough cloud cover northward at just the right height to deliver Friday’s stunning scenes.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024

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northward

2 of 2 noun

• Moreover, the city is hemmed in by the sea from three sides and can only grow northwards.
  — Anuj Puri, Quartz India, 19 Dec. 2019
• Dumas won the Cincinnati precincts and cut a swath through the middle of the county northward.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 14 Oct. 2020
• While oranges in the counties to the northward were damaged to some extent by the late cold spell.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Dec. 2022
• The heat wave that has impacted Texas for well over a week is set to expand northward and eastward.
  — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 28 June 2023
• Areas from about Salem northward could see drizzle or light rain through the evening commute.
  — oregonlive, 4 Feb. 2022
• In La Nina years, colder waters in the Pacific Ocean push the jet stream northward.
  — Allison Chinchar, CNN, 13 Aug. 2021
• Gusts of 40 50 mph are a good bet, and perhaps higher, especially from the city northward.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2023
• Cristobal is expected to continue on a path northward over the next few days.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 6 June 2020
• Tomorrow night: The front doesn’t make much headway northward and starts coming back our way overnight.
  — Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2020
• The probe's 53-day polar orbit was set up to slowly move the point of closest approach northward as the flight progresses.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 8 June 2021
• In this scenario, the storm tracks inland from the Carolinas northward and passes somewhere between the Bay and the District.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
• Much of the rain is aimed as southern Oregon, but the valleys from Eugene northward could still see about a quarter inch from this system.
  — oregonlive, 19 Apr. 2022
• Rivers normally flow into the Gulf, but Laura's strong winds blew the top layer of water northward, away from the Gulf, instead.
  — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 28 Aug. 2020
• The hurricane center said Nicole moved a bit farther north than expected overnight and nudged the storm’s forecast path northward as well over the next two to three days.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 8 Nov. 2022
• Best odds for showers and storms are generally D.C. area and northward.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
• However, the intense cold front forced the jet stream and high altitude steering currents to dip south and may have scooped the balloon northward.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
• These cold waters in the Pacific push the jet stream northward, which affects weather patterns in the U.S and globally.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 20 July 2021
• As shown below, a wavy jet stream can catapult warm air northward into the Arctic and drive cold air far southward.
  — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2020
• By Wednesday the low-pressure system will push a warm front northward and leave drier weather behind for the Northeast.
  — Hannah Gard and Haley Brink, CNN, 12 July 2021
• After a brief pause at that line on the solstice, the sun appears to reverse direction and begins its journey northward.
  — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2022
• The rocket was moved off the launchpad to protect it, as Ian wrought destruction along its path northward from Florida to the Carolinas.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 15 Nov. 2022
• The high acts as a force field of sorts, diverting the jet stream northward and deflecting any inclement weather into Canada.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2022
• Nonetheless, Roland said, the beetles’ northward creep in recent years over the broad, higher-elevation area known as Broad Pass was a bit of a surprise to him.
  — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2023
• There was only the slightest northward-flowing current.
  — John Christopher Fine, sun-sentinel.com, 31 Dec. 2020
• The Wisconsin portion of that forecast region runs roughly along a line from Appleton to Eau Claire and northward.
  — Joe Taschler, Journal Sentinel, 30 Aug. 2022
• It is expected to develop stronger winds and track northward today.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 20 May 2021
• The current circling Antarctica is deflected to its left, or northward, pushing the surface waters away from the pole.
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2020
• Now Brazil, which has buried more coronavirus victims than any country but the United States, is again glancing northward at Manaus.
  — Washington Post, 23 June 2021
• Widespread 1-2 inch totals have been tallied from near the San Francisco Bay area and northward toward the Oregon border, with some spots picking up more than that.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2022
• The influx of immigrants from Mexico in a string of northward surges beginning in the late 1970s forever altered major cities in the Southwest.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024