How to Use northwestern in a Sentence

northwestern

adjective

• The northwestern part of the state will, once again, be the coldest.
  — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2022
• The modern city of Rennes is in northwestern France, about 200 miles west of Paris.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 26 June 2024
• Tiger sharks are found around the northwestern islands of Hawaii.
  — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 15 May 2023
• Two of the deaths occurred in Lake County, and the third was in Obion County — both in the northwestern corner of the state.
  — Jeff Roberson, chicagotribune.com, 11 Dec. 2021
• Once you’re settled, the city of Annecy, at the northwestern mouth of the lake, is easy enough to explore by foot.
  — Michael Venutolo-Mantovani, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Dec. 2024
• Brittany, in northwestern France, has long been one of my favorite places in the world.
  — Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2021
• While a wave of dry air kept the snow off the ground in the city, Petr said, areas of the north and northwestern suburbs did see a dusting.
  — Sylvia Goodman, chicagotribune.com, 7 Dec. 2021
• The lake is about 35 miles (56 kilometers) north of Newry, in northwestern Maine.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
• The ridge is pushing hot and dry air over much of the northwestern and north-central United States.
  — Nathaniel Rosenberg, Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2023
• In the northwestern city of Herat, men have sold their kidneys on the black market.
  — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
• Wellstar is a major health system across the northwestern part of the state.
  — Timothy Pratt, ajc, 1 Sep. 2022
• Wind gusts in the northwestern suburbs of Atlanta are low as the storm moves right overhead.
  — David Wickert, ajc, 17 Jan. 2022
• The storms will enter the northwestern corner of the state around noon and lasting until about 5 p.m.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 6 Apr. 2022
• Forecasters have also added a risk for storms on Wednesday for the northwestern part of the state.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 13 Feb. 2023
• Knokke-Heist is along the northwestern coast of Belgium and about a 70 mile-drive northwest of Brussels.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2024
• All three are in the northwestern corner of the state, with Clackamas and Multnomah in the Portland area.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 4 Sep. 2024
• Clouds will begin to thicken overnight and there’s a slight chance of nighttime rain in the northwestern corner of the state and along the northern beaches.
  — oregonlive, 16 Feb. 2023
• An incident led to the death of a newborn bison calf in northwestern Wyoming.
  — Stephen Smith, CBS News, 5 June 2023
• The property is a 15-minute walk from Oia’s famed coast on the northwestern tip of Santorini.
  — Jessica Vadillo, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2024
• The Uyghurs are a Turkic ethnic group that has lived in what is now northwestern China for thousands of years.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2022
• Nate Fleming was about to leave a gas station in the northwestern part of the city when a group of four men pulled up in an SUV and threatened him at gunpoint.
  — Fox News, 19 Jan. 2022
• As soon as twilight fades, look for those lovers together in the high northwestern sky.
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 9 Feb. 2025
• Winds will be particularly strong on the northwestern, or back, side of the storm, NHC warned.
  — Andrew Freedman, Axios, 9 Oct. 2024
• Mount Lafayette is a mountain with an elevation of around 5,200 feet in the northwestern part of the state, near the town of Franconia.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 24 Nov. 2022
• District 12 covers the far northwestern corner of the state.
  — Nwa Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 22 Jan. 2022
• At that time, around 323 million years ago, there was an ocean covering the northwestern part of the state, from what’s now the Shoals area south toward Tuscaloosa.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 1 Dec. 2021
• The parking spots will be on six acres at 75 Cultural Park Place, in the northwestern corner of the property.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
• The northwestern city of Lanzhou has put four of its districts under a seven-day lockdown.
  — Eva Dou, Washington Post, 14 July 2022
• Tickets will also be required to enter the northwestern part of the park at Polebridge in 2022.
  — Amy Beth Hanson, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2021
• Filming occurred mostly in the northwestern state of Rajasthan, between the cities of Jodhpur and Udaipur.
  — Aislyn Greene, AFAR Media, 19 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 10 Mar 2025