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How To Use Northbound In A Sentence

  • The guard rail struck the woman's 1991 Mazda sedan, shoving it across the road into the northbound lane and bullwhipped the gentle woman into the opposing guard rail on the east side of the highway.
  • Traffic was already very congested by six thirty this morning, particularly on the M1 northbound.
  • All three were wearing balaclavas and fled in the northbound direction on the dual carriageway in a dark green Volvo estate.
  • The outside lane of the northbound carriageway was closed for half an hour while recovery teams cleared away the debris.
  • A contra-flow system was implemented in the northbound lane within half an hour.
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  • No.892 has cleared the turntable and is moving down past the station to pick up its loads for the northbound mixed.
  • Major interstates are now northbound, but it's slow going, with traffic backups across the region.
  • At lunchtime the bridge was clear southbound and there were only minor delays on the northbound carriageway.
  • In October, drivers sat in traffic jams and the northbound lanes of the M271 were blocked after a lorry went over on its side during morning rush hour.
  • Several witnesses observed a driver in a 1993 Chevrolet Cavalier speeding and weaving in and out of traffic while northbound on PR 216.
  • One lane of the northbound carriageway was closed while emergency services dealt with the accident.
  • And he was just crossing over the dual carriageway to reach the northbound lane when the StatusQuo tour bus ran over him.
  • He passed a northbound tractor trailer moving slowly in the northbound lane with its right hand turn signal on.
  • Northbound Imperial flights, configure for aircraft above one-zero-thousand meters and sing out if you see anything. CHAINS OF COMMAND
  • A man travelling on a northbound Northern Line train stabbed a woman as he alighted from the train at Euston.
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  • I followed the signs to the northbound platform of the Jubilee Line. TOY SHOP
  • The other option suggests a two-way northbound tunnel from Eagle Creek while the existing highway becomes two lanes southbound.
  • Traffic came to a standstill when the one-foot wide pipe exploded at around 4am, forcing closure of the northbound carriage and lane two of the southbound carriageway.
  • Northbound ships were of particular concern since they would have dredgers on their starboard side.
  • Options studied include restricting southbound vehicles to the present bridge and northbound traffic to the new crossing.
  • A 25 mile traffic jam clogged the northbound carriageway of the M6.
  • All but one of the four northbound motorway lanes had to be closed down for several hours creating jams and tailbacks.
  • The first part will involve northbound traffic being diverted from the Hopton roundabout through the Hopton Industrial Estate.
  • The northbound lane is closed because of an accident.
  • This will undergo a radical change, with an extension to the northbound M606 and a new routing system around it.
  • This bus connects to not only Train 92 northbound, but also Train 97 southbound.
  • The northbounders starting in Nuremberg had no chance of finding out any details of what they were to do, until they got on the platform. Derailed, and a Wonderful Bar-B-Q
  • All but one of the four northbound motorway lanes had to be closed down for several hours creating jams and tailbacks.
  • Northbound traffic had to be diverted for a number of hours while the truck and its load of linseed and rape-seed was cleared from the motorway.
  • Delays were expected as recovery teams were working to remove one vehicle from two lanes of the northbound carriageway today.
  • The third adult in racing gear chose to proceed at full speed from the cycle lane into the northbound traffic lane, ignoring the blind corner with Library Road.
  • The northbound line was tackled on the first week, with the jointed track being lifted out and old ballast removed down to the level of the bridge arches.
  • A similar operation was carried out on the northbound carriageway in 1998, causing major traffic queues.
  • One of the methods employed to overcome the problem for northbound traffic was the addition of a pair of extra horses to a coach's team to aid in pulling it to the top of the hill.
  • Obama has said that "southbound" strategy will complement the "northbound" crackdown on drug trafficking. Kentucky.com: Homepage
  • On the northbound winds small lateen-sailed boats called dhows traveled up the coast with sturdy mangrove wood, aromatic tree resins, gold, ivory, clove, and the fine, multipurpose fibers of the raffia palm. Crazy Like Us
  • MONTPELIER - An northbound interstate on-ramp in Montpelier will be closed for about a month starting this Monday, which will mean a detour and delays for northbound drivers, the TimesArgus.com: Barre/Montpelier Region
  • Border Patrol agents there stopped northbound cars and trucks to search for illegal aliens and drugs.
  • After a mile or so, the road came up alongside the highway, where southbound traffic was on one road and northbound traffic on another. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • The disaster happened after a Land Rover and trailer came off the M62 on to the line and was hit by a Newcastle-King's Cross express which then collided with a northbound goods train.
  • Traffic using the northbound diversion will be given priority for the right turn in front of the town hall and into Kingsbury Street.
  • The A19 northbound remained closed for more than seven hours, with diversions in place, but North Yorkshire police reported no additional hold-ups or congestion as a result.
  • He was parked in the services at Rainton, near Ripon, when he was approached by a man who forced him to drive northbound up the A1.
  • One lane of the northbound carriageway was closed while emergency services dealt with the accident.
  • At least half that number is expected to take to the N9 northbound lane on Saturday.
  • Wright said he doesn't buy that - pointing to the Massey Tunnel where northbound and southbound traffic is controlled by counterflow signals with few accidents.
  • The booking office at the station has been attacked twice and the stairwell on the northbound platform has been wrecked leaving it unusable.
  • A new merge lane for northbound traffic turning onto the Pacific Highway is also expected to be completed by the end of the month.
  • Delays are occurring as a result of signal failure on the northbound line.
  • The outside lane of the northbound carriageway was temporarily closed while the man was freed from the vehicle, causing a two mile tailback.
  • Traffic in the northbound lane is at a complete standstill.
  • On Monday I witnessed three cyclists exiting the northbound cycle lane on Stricklandgate in quick succession.
  • The outside lane of the northbound carriageway was closed for half an hour while recovery teams cleared away the debris.
  • The situation will be reversed next year while the northbound carriageway is resurfaced.
  • A minibus taxi overturned on Hospital Bend, where northbound lanes were awash in a river of brown, silt-laden water.
  • A speeder had been stopped on the northbound lane, and a truck was off the road at Chester. AFFLICTION
  • We were just idling along northbound on Happy Valley Road just talking, laughing, and listing to rock and roll music.
  • Northbound traffic will have to be diverted onto minor roads.
  • He then lost control of the vehicle, drove down through the ditch and back up, right into the northbound lanes on Highway 12.
  • A sizeable hiatus then ensued, amidst light rainfall, before a northbound carriage became available. MUSIC FOR BOYS
  • BALLARD ROAD, right northbound lane along Ballard from 500 feet south of Evergreen Drive to the intersection of Ballard and Evergreen Drive, closed to facilitate construction of a proposed right turn lane. The Appleton Post-Crescent Latest Headlines
  • ‘Everyone has a fetish,’ says George of Northbound Leather, a Toronto store that sells dominatrix gear and other kinky accessories.
  • The northbound section which opened in 1897 for horses and carts, now carries a daily traffic flow of 50,000 vehicles on its two lanes.
  • Police, travelling in the northbound lane noticed the fight and went to investigate.
  • ‘The bus driver braked but failed to avoid a pedestrian who was in the inside lane of the northbound carriageway,’ she said.
  • After a mile or so, the road came up alongside the highway, where southbound traffic was on one road and northbound traffic on another. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • Traffic was already very congested by six thirty this morning, particularly on the M1 northbound.
  • It is believed the car may have aquaplaned on the northbound carriageway before landing on its roof. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • Flaggers will direct traffic, giving preference to northbound traffic in the morning and southbound in the evening.
  • Step backwards, and northbound vehicles would mow you down: step forwards, and southbound ones would do it equally well. THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
  • MONTPELIER - A northbound Interstate on-ramp in Montpelier will be closed for about a month starting this Monday, which will mean a detour and delays for northbound drivers, the Vermont TimesArgus.com: Barre/Montpelier Region
  • A 30 mph speed limit has been imposed and traffic diverted onto the northbound carriageway while the southbound carriageway is resurfaced.
  • Delays are occurring as a result of signal failure on the northbound line.
  • • Trains heading north from Tukwila alternate between using the regular northbound platform and the "southbound" side. All Today's News - Sightline Daily
  • While a caller was reporting the first incident, a second crash involving four cars happened on the northbound carriageway.
  • A Newcastle-Kings Cross express hit the car and ploughed into a northbound coal train.
  • Our first sign of the Seven Stones was the lightship, anchored between the reef and the northbound shipping channel, slightly to the north of our course.
  • Northbound Imperial flights, configure for aircraft above one-zero-thousand meters and sing out if you see anything. CHAINS OF COMMAND
  • In California, the last of the southbound animals sometimes overlap with the first northbound migrants.
  • Northbound Imperial flights, configure for aircraft above one-zero-thousand meters and sing out if you see anything. CHAINS OF COMMAND
  • The victims' car, a 1999 Toyota Camry, was found on the side of the northbound lanes of the tollway, which is Interstate Highway 90, near Arlington Chicagotribune.com - News
  • The junction, just south of Tewkesbury allows access only to northbound traffic and an exit for southbound.
  • The too-short ramp from the southbound 14th Street bridge to the northbound parkway also is being rebuilt. D.C. area's road projects from bird's-eye view
  • Traffic tailed back fourteen miles after police were forced to close the inside lane of the northbound carriageway.
  • Northbound buses start their trips at Ian Macdonald and York Boulevards, then proceed: northward along Keele Street; and then westward along Steeles Avenue West to Founders Road, resuming their regular route ** westward along Steeles., from 9: 45 a.m. until 12: 15 p.m., eastbound buses operate along their regular route to Ian Macdonald Boulevard and The Chimneystack Road, then detour: eastward along The Chimneystack; southward along Keele Street; eastward along Canartic Drive; and then northward* along Petrolia Road to Steeles Avenue West, resuming their regular route ** eastward along Steeles. Transit Toronto - Weblog
  • Delays are occurring as a result of signal failure on the northbound line.
  • Border Patrol agents there stopped northbound cars and trucks to search for illegal aliens and drugs.
  • Northbound and eastbound trains connect at New York.
  • ALVIN - A trash truck caught fire Monday afternoon and northbound traffic on Highway 35 was shut down for several hours while Alvin firefighters put it out. The Facts: News
  • At the U.S. 31/Division intersection, Michigan Department of Transportation development engineer Matt Radulski said a "channelized" right turn lane will be created for northbound Division Road motorists looking to move onto U.S. Custom Search

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