ADJECTIVE
- toward the northwest
NOUN
- the compass point midway between north and west; at 315 degrees
ADVERB
- in a northwestward direction
How To Use northwestward In A Sentence
- The track guidance generally moves 91L northwestward over the Caribbean Sea early next week. Shary & friends keep tropical storm season alive
- Some forecast models are growing this system into a tropical storm and moving it northwestward toward the Yucatan Channel (the strait between Mexico and Cuba) in about 5 days. Tropical trouble brewing?
- Since the front extended northwestward some 1,900 kilometers from Belgorod to Leningrad, to say that the armies of the Germans and their three principal allies were overextended is putting it mildly. Deathride
- If you shifted that storm track northwestward a little, Washington D.C. might have ended the season with well over 20 inches of snow for the season, a total well above average. A detailed look at this winter's biggest players
- Within ten minutes he was on the open prairie, heading northwestward, as for Long Lake, his pace steady and increasing now, his deep-flewed muzzle low to the ground. Jan A Dog and a Romance
- Note 68: That is why Emperor Wu dispatched four emissaries to locate the road to India, looking not only southwestward but also westward and northwestward. Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
- China's National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center said it could produce waves of six to nine meters as it churns northwestward through the East China Sea at about 15 kilometers per hour. China, Japan Brace for Super Typhoon
- Maximum sustained winds are estimated to be near 75 mph, and the storm is moving west-northwestward at 15 mph. Tomas grows into season's 12th hurricane
- He circled back across Chaco Wash and picked up the gravel road that leads northwestward toward Nageezi Trading Post. A THIEF OF TIME
- Off to the northwestward were the rugged blue crags of the Around the World in Ten Days