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UK
/nˈɔːθwədz/
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ADVERB
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in a northern direction
they earn more up north
Let's go north!
How To Use northwards In A Sentence
- Their view is that many of the birds and animals are exclusive to the river and its banks, so they are pleading with Roads Service to move the road northwards, away from the river.
- The coast sweeps northwards in a wide curve.
- Because the coastline of the area is indented, as wheat-growing expanded northwards the farms were still close to the sea and hence transport costs were low.
- Lavarack Barracks is bound to the south by the imposing outcrop of Mt Stuart, with its range of foothills, and spreads northwards across a flat plain to the east-west axis of University Drive.
- Europe's economic centre of gravity shifted northwards.
- These airstreams then turn northwards to the north of the Equator and meet the southern hemisphere south-easterlies in a trough zone south of the Equator.
- We continued northwards past Evans Inlet and into the narrows by Bold Point. HIGH STAND
- Note 1: Taken from the observations of Father Baudoin, a Recollet priest who accompanied French forces in their campaigns out of Placentia eastwards and northwards along the English Shore in 1696 and 1697. Gutenber-e Help Page
- As the storm pushes northwards it is building up high pressure on its eastern flank, covering much of the UK. Times, Sunday Times
- A contemporary Portuguese geographer recorded that Diaz realized ‘that the coast here turned northwards and north-eastwards towards Ethiopia under Egypt and on to the Gulf of Arabia, giving great hope of the discovery of India’.