How to Use southwestern in a Sentence

southwestern

adjective
  • The southwestern city of Chongqing also eased Covid curbs on the same day.
    Laura He, CNN, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The statues have emerged on the river near the southwestern city of Chongqing.
    Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The Sun Valley course, on Bethany Lane in the southwestern portion of the county, opened in 1961.
    Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Areas of southwestern Spain will see the threat of heavy rain continue through the end of the week.
    Taylor Ward, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Mount’s Bay is off the southwestern coast of Cornwall and about 300 miles west of London.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Again, this will start in the southwestern part of the state and move up into central Wisconsin over the course of the day.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Other flooding stretched from Hoopa in the north down to Shelter Cove in the southwestern tip of the county along the coast.
    Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Buc-ee's plans to open a third location in the state of Kentucky in the southwestern city of Oak Grove.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 20 Sep. 2024
  • This map shows that the highest risk for fires is in the state's central and southwestern counties.
    Beck Andrew Salgado, Journal Sentinel, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Some of the most extreme heat will ooze into the south-central and southwestern U.S. over the next few days.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 8 July 2022
  • The ruins were found in the Lubuskie Province, which is in southwestern Poland, about 275 miles west of Warsaw.
    Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2024
  • All the while, climate change is drying out many of the places people are flocking to, like the southwestern US.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The deaths in the spring of 2021, in the southwestern Ontario city of London, shocked the country and drew condemnation.
    Paul Vieira, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The best chance for clear skies during the eclipse is predicted to be in the southwestern part of the path, near Texas and Mexico.
    Maya Silver, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Oct. 2023
  • On the southwestern coast, in Maniitsoq, the sea ice has not been solid enough to walk on since 2018.
    Chris Morris, Fortune Europe, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The Kitchen Dwellers’ new album, Wise River, is named for the river that runs about 30 miles through the southwestern region of the state.
    Gary Stoller, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • Cartoon Forum runs in the southwestern city of Toulouse, France, over Sept. 19-22.
    Lise Pedersen, Variety, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Tamil Nadu is a state along India’s southwestern coast and about 1,400 miles south of New Delhi.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2024
  • In the southwestern city of Izeh, crowds gathered for the funeral of a nine-year-old boy, Kian Pirfalak.
    Dan De Luce, NBC News, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Knee-deep floodwaters hit the city of Cádiz, which lies close to Gibraltar in southwestern Spain.
    Max Butterworth, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
  • For instance, one of the dots on the map is a private residence in Akure, a mid-sized city in southwestern Nigeria.
    Jesse Gilbert, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Chavela has been enjoyed for decades in Mexico and the southwestern U.S.
    Miles Walls, Chron, 5 Oct. 2022
  • In 2020 Noah Swartz was backpacking with his wife, Raquel, in southwestern Utah.
    Steve Larese, Outside Online, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Though a much smaller slice of the electoral college pie with six votes, the southwestern state could prove key as Election Day nears.
    Npr Staff, NPR, 16 Sep. 2024
  • In Hossegor, a tiny coastal town in southwestern France, quiet mornings invite strolls around Lac d'Hossegor, a reservoir steps from the beach.
    Sara Lieberman, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2023
  • The attack hit a rally in the district of Mastung in the southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan.
    Rick Noack, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Like most people who live in this part of southwestern Bangladesh, Akhter’s survival depends on the river.
    Denise Chow, NBC News, 7 May 2023
  • The skull was placed in the donation box at a Goodwill in Goodyear, Arizona, a southwestern suburb of Phoenix, by an unknown donor.
    Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Prabha moved to Mumbai years ago from her home state of Kerala in southwestern India.
    Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Protests erupted in the southwestern city of Gwangju, and Mr. Chun sent in armored vehicles and paratroopers, who crushed the uprising.
    Ephrat Livni, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2024

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