How To Use Northwards In A Sentence
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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.
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The coast sweeps northwards in a wide curve.
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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.
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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.
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Europe's economic centre of gravity shifted northwards.
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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.
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We continued northwards past Evans Inlet and into the narrows by Bold Point.
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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.
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As the storm pushes northwards it is building up high pressure on its eastern flank, covering much of the UK.
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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’.
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Europe's economic centre of gravity shifted northwards.
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But because of worries about the tenderness of these beauties, he turned his attention northwards.
TALES OF THE ROSE TREE: Ravishing Rhododendrons and their Travels Around the World
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Winds drive the vast plumes of smoke northwards towards the base of the Malaysian peninsula where Singapore sits.
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Now the jetty of the Dive Centre within the complex marks the limit of Egyptian territory, and woe betide anyone who thinks they might meander northwards equipped with aqualung and fins.
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The cold Benguela Current sweeping northwards supports the best fishing on the southwest coast of Africa, and in season South African anglers flock here to catch steenbras, galjoen and blacktail.
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With dying lawns in the south and new plants extending their ranges northwards it sounds as though our gardens will be looking rather different in years to come.
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He just trotted northwards, thinking to fire some more rifle shots from the farm by the ford.
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Humanitarian disasters looming on the doorstep of the US will propel more migration northwards.
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Out in the forest a steady rustling wind crept through the trees, stalking northwards like a stealthy cat.
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In this place called St. Augustine we understood the king did keep, as is before said, 150 soldiers, and at another place some dozen leagues beyond to the northwards, called St. Helena, he did there likewise keep
Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage
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Winds drive the vast plumes of smoke northwards towards the base of the Malaysian peninsula where Singapore sits.
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Linking the high tops of Sgor Gaoith and Sguran Dubh Mor, the ridge continues northwards before swelling into a broad whaleback above Rothiemurchus.
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The jet stream then turned sharply northwards, leaving the eastern side of the country unusually warm.
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In this place called St. Augustine we understood the king did keep, as is before said, 150 soldiers, and at another place some dozen leagues beyond to the northwards, called St. Helena, he did there likewise keep
Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage
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As you drift northwards and deeper, the spurs and gullies give way to a moonscape of boulders.
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Some species have continued to spread northwards in response to the warmer climate.
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Set on the northern edge of the Hampshire downs, Beacon Hill commands fine views northwards with defences utilizing the local topography to good effect.
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In warmer periods the reindeer and mammoths would withdraw northwards, but they would give place to deer and wild pigs, which prefer a wooded environment.
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We continued northwards past Evans Inlet and into the narrows by Bold Point.
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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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It is believed that the microscopic plankton on which tiny sandeel larvae feed are moving northwards as the sea water warms, leaving the baby fish with nothing to feed on.
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On the other hand, species like the dotterel and snow bunting look set to head northwards, leaving British shores for colder climes.
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One type of toy, Appalachian primitive dolls, has been a standard plaything for many children in the mountain communities of Alabama and northwards.
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springer," for I went northwards with a desire to catch one that had taken the form of a longing, a yearning for many successive seasons.
Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
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Even so, the Americans set off at a cracking pace northwards towards Baghdad.
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Nevertheless I set off northwards, feeling sure that there would be other accommodation along the way.
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It is here that the roaring tide of the Philippine Sea, moving northwards, meets the mighty current of the Pacific Ocean, sweeping down in the opposite direction.
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Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #140 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
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_Snell_, _blae_, _nirly_, and _scowthering_, are four of these significant vocables; they are all words that carry a shiver with them; and for my part as I see them aligned before me on the page, I am persuaded that a big wind comes tearing over the Firth from Burntisland and the northern hills; I think I can hear it howl in the chimney, and as I set my face northwards, feel its smarting kisses on my cheek.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)
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The road runs northwards, as straight as a die.
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The road runs northwards, as straight as a die.
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And beyond the vale, eastwards and northwards, Catherine looked out upon a wild sea of moors wrapped in mists, sullen and storm-beaten, while to the left the clouds hung deepest and inkiest over the high points of the Ullswater mountains.
Robert Elsmere
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Watching the dark flow stream northwards, carrying - what?
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The simple solution is to reverse the one way direction in East Street to northwards.
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She borrowed some money to buy a horse-drawn caravan and commenced a two-year journey northwards.
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In Mauritania, adult locusts have been forming swarms in parts of the north and northwest where vegetation is drying out, and some of these swarms have been seen moving northwards towards Morocco.
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The northwards path along a rocky coastline takes you to Dunstanburgh Castle, a romantic ruin where kittiwakes, cormorants and fulmars nest on whinstone cliffs.
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Chinese company started building a highway northwards out of Accra.
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Only from October to March is it possible, thanks to gentler southerlies, to sail northwards and then only as far as Jiddah, on the Arabian coast.
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Those territories, O best of kings, stretched northwards from the banks of Ganga to the southern banks of Gomati, and resembled a second Amravati (the city of Indra).
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
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There, clear, was Arthur's seat, the Georgian grid of the new town, the apron of streets spreading downhill, northwards, to Leith and to the firth.
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The rain-bringing mesoscale convective system is strong, and the torrential rains move slowly northwards along the Western side of the mountains.
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The parched prisoners threw themselves at the green-scummed water and some, seeing that the sepoy guards were few in number, slipped away northwards.
Sharpe's Fortress
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A succession of forts and a military depot stood on what was the main road northwards.
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After taking in the views, the walk continues in the same direction northwards from the summit towards a wall on top of the plateau.
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Winds drive the vast plumes of smoke northwards towards the base of the Malaysian peninsula where Singapore sits.
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Tuna, which target mackerel, have in turn followed the shoals northwards.
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-- Night alternately clear and cloudy; cirrocumulus and cumulostratus moving northwards; no wind; beautifully mild for the time of year; in the morning some heavy clouds on the horizon.
Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia
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Berriedale Water, (3) the brecciated conglomerate largely composed of granite detritus seen at Badbea, (4) red sandstones, shales and conglomeratic bands found in the Berriedale Water and further northwards in the direction of Strathmore.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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His political and cultural orientation was still northwards, his world essentially that of the Humbrians.
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In North America, the Arctic tundra is expected to retreat northwards and be replaced by forest.
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Extension of these subsidence patterns beyond 305 Ma depends on how far northwards the orogenic load advanced.
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The Auk Formation is widespread in the UK Central North Sea and extends northwards into the southern Viking Graben.
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The northwards path along a rocky coastline takes you to the castle, a romantic ruin where kittiwakes, cormorants and fulmars nest on whinstone cliffs.
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Almost as soon as work began above ground, work also began on driving a tunnel northwards towards the sandstone face of Worsley Delph.
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The Piedra Blanca is a short distance along the Punta de Mita road, which leaves the highway at a major intersection just beyond Bucerías, heading northwards from Puerto Vallarta.
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We are told that Blue Tongue has been visited upon Britain as a result of global warning allowing a certain kind of midge to migrate Northwards through Europe, and high winds which then blew these midges across the North Sea.
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Several of the clay-beds may be seen by the side of the road leading up northwards from Vallauris; but the best and richest strata, all of the Pleiocene period, are in that valley near the spot where this road meets the road to Antibes.
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And the city duly burned for four days, the flames jumping 20 blocks northwards every hour on the first night.
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From here we progress northwards, meeting the outskirts of Milton Keynes the following day - more tidy gardens and open parklands than monstrosity - and have our first pub lunch at the appropriately named Barge Inn.
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The road continues northwards to the border.
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She wasn't sure which way she was to go, so she kept taking turnings down lanes which she thought would lead northwards.
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Bats eat a midge called Culicoides, which carries bluetongue, a devastating livestock disease that is moving northwards in Europe as a result of climate change.
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Namdeb conducts opencast diamond mining operations over nearly 130 kilometres of the coastal strip northwards of the Orange River.
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In Yorkeshire, etc., northwards, some country woemen do-e worship the New Moon on their bare knees, kneeling upon an earthfast stone.
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Eyre thought he was hemmed in by a circular or horse-shoe-shaped salt depression, which he called Lake Torrens; because, wherever he tried to push northwards, north-westwards, eastwards, or north-eastwards, he invariably came upon the shores of one of these objectionable and impassable features.
Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
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Some local businessman and councillors wish to expand Kendal to the north, extending the Sandylands area and Shap Industrial Estate northwards.
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Winds drive the vast plumes of smoke northwards towards the base of the Malaysian peninsula where Singapore sits.
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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.
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Not until he had reached the king's house was it any use to turn northwards.
The Princess and the Curdie
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In contrast, in the section south of the turbidites the lavas dip steeply northwards, and basalts are overlain by andesites.
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Proceeding northwards first we may take the road by Templecombe that was once a preceptory of the Knights Templars and now has a station on the main line of the South Western Railway, to Wincanton, a small market town on the Cale ( "Wyndcaleton") at the head of the Vale of
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
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Nonetheless, we had to move northwards to our depot of food and fuel.
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The drive northwards will continue as the old North / South divide narrows.
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From Flamborough Head northwards there is a stretch of spectacular limestone cliff scenery, reaching its highest point around Bempton.
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In effect it would help to draw out some of the wealth from the capital northwards and westwards towards the centre of the country.
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Nato's map could be redrawn northwards as well.
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This time success crowned his efforts; a passage was found northwards through the opposing scrub, and leaving the Gulf of Carpentaria far to the right, the Indian Ocean itself was reached.
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From Flamborough Head northwards there is a stretch of spectacular limestone cliff scenery, reaching its highest point around Bempton.
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After hitch-hiking ever northwards to Derby, then hiring a plane to Coronation Gulf, he begins a Crusoe-like existence on a deserted island where he experiences two theophanies.
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Nato's map could be redrawn northwards as well.
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Heartburn is all about excess production of acid, which has left the confines of your stomach and ventured northwards up your oesophagus.
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‘It does migrate northwards into Europe and occasionally reaches our shores,’ he said.
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The coast sweeps northwards in a wide curve.
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But the more reliable sightings, by experienced observers, showed that the eagle was going northwards.
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Tuna, which target mackerel, have in turn followed the shoals northwards.
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These birds migrate northwards in spring and southwards in fall.
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Today it is a blazing day in the capital, Maputo, and I have stayed on alone here for a few days, while the team continues the cycle northwards.
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I shall not recapitulate Cook's voyages; the first fitted out by the British Government was made in 1768, but Cook did not touch upon Australia's coast until two years later, when, voyaging northwards along the eastern coast, he anchored at a spot he called Botany Bay, from the brightness and abundance of the beautiful wild flowers he found growing there.
Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
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The northwards path along a rocky coastline takes you to Dunstanburgh Castle, a romantic ruin where kittiwakes, cormorants and fulmars nest on whinstone cliffs.
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Tirpitz and her consorts had slipped northwards along the Norwegian coast, from where she and her consorts could wreak havoc on a convoy - or break out into the Atlantic to prowl with greater freedom.
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¶ Some write, that now at this present, the king should ordeine or rather confirme the bishop of Elie his chancellour to be lord chéefe iustice ouer all England, and the bishop of Durham to be lord iustice from Trent northwards.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First
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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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As it's been such a nice day, after having had lunch at Blairmains this afternoon I thought it would be nice to go for a run in the car, so we headed off northwards to Callander, where we had a nice walk around and some ice cream in the sunshine.
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In effect it would help to draw out some of the wealth from the capital northwards and westwards towards the centre of the country.
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As the southwest winds sweep in, rain clouds build up and gradually push northwards.
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