How to Use south of in a Sentence
south of
idiomatic phrase-
Each year the who’s-who of the film industry and beyond shows up in the south of Frances dressed to the nines.
— Brittany Natale, Redbook, 26 May 2023 -
San Leone is on the island of Sicily and about 320 miles south of Rome.
— Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024 -
The home is in Jonesboro, about 15 miles south of Atlanta.
— Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 25 July 2024 -
Streets south of Congress and east of Woodward will be closed.
— Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 22 June 2023 -
If Nurse doesn't come south of the border, Atkinson could become the top choice.
— Michael Shapiro, Chron, 10 Apr. 2023 -
Setting off from the south of Gaza, the convoy travelled up Al Rashid Road, which follows the coastal edge of the strip.
— Katie Polglase, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024 -
The orange lights blinking in the far ridgeline, south of them, are not in Israel.
— Dan Senor, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2023 -
The team set sail from the island of Kiribati, about 1,200 miles south of Hawaii, in September.
— Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024 -
Jokić joined a team in Novi Sad, a little south of Sombor.
— Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024 -
In the south of the country, rain was so rare that the region had its driest monsoon season since 1901, the IMD said.
— Sibi Arasu, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2023 -
The city is located 20 miles south of Boston, and Witt made trips to Fenway as a kid.
— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 13 July 2024 -
The strongest storms are expected to be east and south of Kansas City.
— Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 18 Apr. 2024 -
What is still challenging is the supply of medicine and material, even in the south of Gaza.
— Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2023 -
Expand All Twenty miles south of Boise, crews at the city compost farm are bracing for the busy season.
— Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 9 Apr. 2024 -
Their booth is south of Dorton Arena near the main midway entrance.
— Andrea Weigl, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024 -
The warning applied to communities south of the Litani.
— Aamer Madhani, TIME, 1 Oct. 2024 -
The northern lights are best seen in an area called the auroral oval, or roughly 65–70 degrees north or south of the equator.
— Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 13 Jan. 2024 -
The threat of severe weather is more likely south of I-70 in the southern portions of the Kansas City forecast area.
— Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2024 -
Pine Bluff is located about 40 miles south of Little Rock.
— Gina Martinez, CBS News, 25 Jan. 2024 -
Everything else is ready, done and in place to charge vehicles driving south of 60th St. a fee ($15 during the day).
— New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 26 July 2024 -
The area is about three blocks south of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff campus.
— The Pine Bluff Commercial, Arkansas Online, 9 June 2023 -
Just south of Baghdad, the urban sprawl gives way to glimpses of green, with lush date palm groves bordering the Euphrates River.
— Alissa J. Rubin Emily Garthwaite, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023 -
Drilling south of Martha's Vineyard next year will tell us much more about how stores of fresh water under land and sea might connect.
— Rob L. Evans, Scientific American, 15 June 2023 -
A week after the sinking, Carman was found by a passing freighter floating in a life raft 115 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard.
— Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023 -
A number of dead and injured people were seen arriving at hospitals in the center and south of the strip.
— Phil Helsel, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2023 -
The brothers lived with their mother in a two-bedroom apartment in Carbondale, about 14 miles south of the amusement park.
— Dennis Romero, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2023 -
The parish is in western Louisiana about 120 miles south of Shreveport.
— Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 15 May 2024 -
Just south of DeCorte’s home are two of the state’s largest homesteads, land granted to residents with at least 50 percent Hawaiian blood.
— Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023 -
That would push an unprecedented 10- to 15-foot storm surge into Tampa and other locations along and to the south of where the eye crosses the coast.
— Erica Pandey, Axios, 10 Oct. 2024 -
Guest House is asking that people move from the garden to the south of the pavilion so that the shelter can move forward with its garden renovations, Bauer said.
— Gina Lee Castro, Journal Sentinel, 12 Oct. 2024
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