southerly

How To Use southerly In A Sentence

• In particular, southerly winds have meant that migrant moths have kept arriving. Times, Sunday Times
• Tara walked in a southerly direction .
• Margaux is the most southerly, most isolated, and most extensive of the Médoc's communal appellations.
• A southerly on Sunday gave the opportunity for a longer north lake course.
• One of the unusual things about this particular storm was that it was a southerly gale and not one of the usual westerlies that tend to affect the south of Britain.
• We remained nearly an hour beside our beneficent fountain, then took the route for Senegal; that is, a southerly direction, for we did not know exactly where that country lay. Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.
• The jet stream took a more southerly track again last week and low pressure brought unsettled weather. Times, Sunday Times
• Speculation was rife that a ship at sea had emptied its tanks and released a noxious gas that was carried ashore on southerly winds. Times, Sunday Times
• At the other extreme, there is the guy who puts out in a hot-water boat at the height of a southerly buster, a cold, wet wind with maximum ‘grunt’, just in case someone is in trouble.
• A cold southerly wind rustled through the coolabah trees with a sweet hissing sound as a corella squawked into a colourless sky. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories