NOUN
- a region of the northwestern United States usually including Washington and Oregon and sometimes southwestern British Columbia
How To Use Pacific Northwest In A Sentence
- In the potlatches of the Chinook, Nootka, and other Pacific Northwest peoples, for example, chiefs vied to give the most blankets and other valuables.
- Indian crusade - not just to start calling Mount Rainier "Ti'Swaq," but to restore traditional names of spiritual places throughout the Pacific Northwest. Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News
- The production itself cannot be faulted, with cinematographer Caleb Deschanel contrasting the moist mossiness of the Pacific Northwest, the cool grayness of Portland and the pure whites of Canadian winter.
- Snow, sleet and freezing rain caused treacherous driving conditions throughout the Pacific Northwest.
- Yet even though Vancouver is known as the Amsterdam of the Pacific Northwest, reefer related businesses have a tenuous existence, operating as they do under the cloud of prohibition.
- More complex and expensive methods of regeneration, it now seemed, were the only way that Douglas fir would ever grow again on the immense swaths of cutover lands in the Pacific Northwest.
- This is followed by the Kumamoto oyster (Crassostrea sikamea) in Japan, a tiny thimble-shaped oyster grown in the Pacific Northwest. Oysters Come Back in Vogue
- I, however, spent nearly every summer of my childhood travelling the western provinces of Canada and the Pacific Northwest and – one year – the California coast all the way to Disneyland, in campers and camper-vans and tent-trailers and mini-motorhomes. In The Outside | Her Bad Mother
- As their name implies, Mormon metalmarks are mostly a species of the Great Basin, and do not occur across most of the Pacific Northwest.
- A watery gateway to the USA's Pacific Northwest, the Sound itself is a giant product of Earth's violent convulsions.