How To Use Southwards In A Sentence
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On Tuesday the frontal rain in the north is likely to slide southwards, drawing down colder air for a time over northern and eastern parts.
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After we had lost all steerage way we were swept bodily southwards by the inblowing winds towards the cyclone's centre.
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But the high pressure that delivered the spring weather is slipping southwards and the jet stream has reappeared over the UK.
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As long as the Germans held Caen, they denied access to the plain stretching southwards for just over 30 km.
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The surge travelled southwards along the coast.
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The streets are busy, with small groups heading steadily southwards towards the nightclub.
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As the Arctic air tightened its grip, the belt of snow pushed southwards.
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The other piece is floating southwards in a nonchalant manner.
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Huge schools of black and silver mullet migrate southwards along the coast in the autumn, almost always within casting distance, accompanied by an army of predators including tarpon, sharks, jacks, barracudas and snook.
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The fighting centred on the Gojam and Gondar regions as rebel forces moved southwards towards the capital.
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I thought they had come to attack us, but they were a _caffila_ of merchantmen bound for Cambaya; as there comes every year a similar fleet from Goa, Chaul, and other places to the southwards, for Cambaya, whence they bring the greatest part of the loading which is carried by the caracks and galleons to Portugal.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
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While the rescue was in progress, further reinforcements headed southwards.
Dusty Warriors: Modern Soldiers at War
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I ended up sitting reading it on the long journey southwards to London, with my highlighter and red pencil, marking the errors in the book as I read.
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There are plenty of council flats in long blocks, some old and some new but almost all with satellite dishes pointing southwards.
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Rather than retrace our steps, we continued southwards, traversing the mountain down to a pass called Bwlch Tryfan.
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It allowed icy blasts of air to escape from the Arctic and make their way southwards.
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From Calais the general led his forces on a long march southwards.
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From southwards the Sun shone on the stony ground; then grew green grass in fertile soil.
Phoenix From the Flame
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A blast of Arctic air, which will push southwards at the beginning of the week, is being blamed for the cold snap.
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We then tranship the goods southwards to Felixstowe and Southampton.
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They watched with mounting concern as swarms of locusts began to sweep southwards from breeding grounds in North Africa.
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He drove along the M6 to the Scottish border then headed southwards.
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Khabur -- the Araxes of Xenophon -- flows from the Kurdistan mountains southwards, and runs into the Euphrates.] [Footnote 115: The Gozan river cannot be, as tacitly assumed by Asher, the Kizil Uzun (also known as the Araxes).
The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela
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The question of what we were to do in the immediate future was settled for us; for four days out of the six during which we were at One Ton the weather made travelling southwards, that is against the wind, either entirely impossible or such that the chance of seeing another party at any distance was nil.
The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
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The sacristy, chapter-house, fratery, and other apartments stretch from the transept southwards along the east side; above these, on the upper floor, were the dormitories, entering by an open staircase from the south transept.
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys
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The road to South Port was a long one however, stretching southwards for about 50 miles.
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And if you be disposed to goe through the Sound to the Southwards, keepe the Northwest shoare aboorde, for on the Island side after you be shotte so far in as the crosse, it is a shoale of rockes halfe the sound ouer: which rockes do last vnto the Southerly part of the great Island, and rather to the Southwards.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Some of the cols must indeed mark formerly active valleys that led westwards and southwards out of the basin prior to active infill, but we have found no evidence that Panorama gorge was shut off by footwall uplift during fault propagation.
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Other southern Avalon Irish initially entered through the port of St. John's, attracted by its increasing commercial activity and potential for employment, ultimately wending their way southwards from the town (mirroring a similar diaspora northwards into Conception Bay).
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Again frustrated, he turned southwards, meaning to cross above the Rosaires Cataract, which was without doubt impassable to steamers.
The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
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Although the Portuguese advance southwards was excruciatingly slow, once the cape had been rounded by Bartolomeu Dias in 1488 progress in the Indian Ocean was nothing short of spectacular.
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A slightly later phase of deglaciation occurred when the ice margin retreated north into St. George's Channel, forming the raised ice contact delta at the Screen Hills, which prograded southwards into high relative sea level.
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From southwards the Sun shone on the stony ground; then grew green grass in fertile soil.
Phoenix From the Flame
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Egyptian scribes had agreed, in the course of the long march southwards, on the stipulations to be signed; the treaty itself was to be drawn up after the articles had been carefully considered, and to be signed in the city of Rameses called Tanis -- or, by the numerous settlers in its neighborhood, Zoan.
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It faces southwards away from the road, and its large, pretty garden is a real sun-trap that you could probably sit in on a fine winter's day.
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Icebergs break off from the ice sheets and float southwards.
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Start the walk on the main village street and head southwards, in the opposite direction to the bridge over the River Tame.
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A class D9 No. 6028 departs southwards, seen from the signal box.
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During the harsh winter months, approximately 120 different species of bird migrate southwards.
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To put the case more concisely, the _Star of the North_ had been carried for the distance of _four degrees and a half_ exactly of longitude backward on her outward track to New York and some _two degrees_ or thereabouts to the southwards, placing us as nearly as possible in the position the skipper had already indicated, a direction of some five hundred miles more or less from our proper course and about midway between Bermuda and the Azores, or Western Islands.
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In general it refers to the semi-historical, semi-legendary northerly location from which the various Nahua-speaking tribes set out on their long journey southwards into central Mexico and surrounding areas.
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On Tuesday the frontal rain in the north is likely to slide southwards, drawing down colder air for a time over northern and eastern parts.
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At Monasterevin it turns southwards and makes its way through the rich tillage and pasturelands of Kildare, Carlow and Kilkenny, passing through the towns of Athy and Carlow along the way.
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We could not have been hunting for more than three hours, when glimpses of a deer trotting southwards through the thick shrubby timber caught my attention.
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The showery rain eased southwards yesterday, leaving eastern parts mainly dry today.
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Southwards along section towards the Sach Pass, the leucogranites gradually decrease in abundance and the pelitic rocks becomes more schistose.
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I flourish the knife at them as they streak away southwards over Hadrian's Wall, over the chapel of St. Michael and All Angels and out of sight.
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Having had your fill here, cross the river on the barrage, take the first left and drive along the east bank of the river southwards the toll bridge, stopping and starting as and when you need to.
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We passed southwards over large tracts of bush and gramineous plants, with patches of small plantations, manioc and thur; and settlements girt by calabash-trees, cocoas, palmyra and oil palms.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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It was a visit that took him to Mogadishu and southwards to Kismayo.
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The northern hemisphere has effectively eradicated itself in a nuclear war, and the fallout is creeping inexorably southwards.
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He besought me, therefore, to leave my solitary isle, and to meet him at Perth, that we might proceed southwards together.
Chapter 20
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The remainder of the clan had over the year migrated southwards towards the porcelain industry in Stourbridge.
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He was heading southwards and had acquired a firearm.
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We followed the coast southwards.
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Jeanne gave him a quick glance as they crossed the Seine and drove southwards to get on to the Périphérique at the Porte d'Orléans.
DOUBLE DECEIT
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We stayed overnight in a motor camp in Picton and continued next day, southwards down the east coast to Kaikoura.
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They were displaced by livestock-breeding black tribes that moved southwards for better grazing in pre-colonial times.
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Waves lose their translucence, become a million jagged snowcaps that bob and creak, weave and thrash on a suicide mission southwards, the North Fork of Long Island, a blue and brown dash in the distance.
Monkeytown prologue/chapter first
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We must southwards ( travel towards the south ) to get to the South Pole.
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All the heads of the reeds are tilted southwards as if anticipating where change will eventually arise.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
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The army may push southwards into the Kurdish areas.
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These birds migrate northwards in spring and southwards in fall.
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The next weekend, instead of taking his Sunday rest, he started to walk southwards.
KARA KUSH
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We could not have been hunting for more than three hours, when glimpses of a deer trotting southwards through the thick shrubby timber caught my attention.
Field & Stream's Best Hunting Story Contest: Final Week (Week Four)
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Then, amid both the desert and the sown land, the column struck southwards into the high central massif.
KARA KUSH
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A major cold front brought unusually low temperatures to many central southern US states early last week, as a chilled mass of air pushed southwards.
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However, traffic that does use the zone will move southwards, rather than northwards as at present, and there will be a 20 mph speed limit.
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The latter is St George's Bloomsbury which, several decades ago, just missed out on demolition in a grandiose and, this being England, unexecuted scheme for extending the British Museum precinct southwards.
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The search was extended southwards to the open sea about 44 miles southeast of Stockholm and continued to cause ripples across the region.
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They travelled southwards along the Staten Island shoreline.
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