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due north

NOUN
  1. the cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees

How To Use due north In A Sentence

  • It may have had sand rather than pebbles, but it faced due north. Times, Sunday Times
  • The fort lies almost due north and one can well imagine how the battle raged to and fro between it and the valley. On the Trail of Merlin - a guide to the Celtic mystery tradition
  • A few seconds later I emerge from an arroyo, and with the road now traveling due north, the Santa Lucias loom directly ahead, a great shrouded wall plunging down to meet the Pacific.
  • Well, and ain't we goin 'due north just now, so that the coast lies away on our left, an' for the last three hours you've bin bearin 'away to the _right_, something like nor' and by east, if it's not nor '_east_ an' by east, the coast being all the while on yer port beam, you grampus -- that's so, ain't it? Lost in the Forest Wandering Will's Adventures in South America
  • I knew that my moral compass does not exactly point the due north.
  • We took off, the bus bumping along the rough coast road, charting a course due north in the late afternoon sun.
  • Lastly, due north, high up, the absurd Giraffe (_Camelopardus_) stands proudly on his ridiculous head. Half-Hours with the Stars A Plain and Easy Guide to the Knowledge of the Constellations
  • the point of the arrow was due north
  • A mile and a half walking almost due north led to a veinlet of copper 30 metres long by 0.30 thick, with an east-west strike, and a dip of The Land of Midian
  • The village is due north of Paris.
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