NORTH in a Sentence

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For NORTH, below is one of 175 sentences:
On both their mother's and their father's side they were Georgians, north Georgians, only a generation away from pioneers.

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 Meanings and Examples of NORTH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
north
 n.  the direction to the left of one facing the rising sun
Classic Sentence: (110 in 8 pages)
1  Life in the north Georgia county of Clayton was still new and, according to the standards of Augusta, Savannah and Charleston, a little crude.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  The rolling foothill country of north Georgia was plowed in a million curves to keep the rich earth from washing down into the river bottoms.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  She had put Savannah and its memories behind her when she left that gently mannered city by the sea, and, from the moment of her arrival in the County, north Georgia was her home.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  Here in north Georgia was a rugged section held by a hardy people.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  There was never any telling what north Georgians would do.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  On both their mother's and their father's side they were Georgians, north Georgians, only a generation away from pioneers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
7  Train loads of troops passed through Jonesboro daily on their way north to Atlanta and Virginia.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
8  When Gerald first moved to north Georgia, there had been no Atlanta at all, not even the semblance of a village, and wilderness rolled over the site.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  There were no railroads then in north Georgia, and very few anywhere else.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
10  But during the years before Gerald married Ellen, the tiny settlement, twenty-five miles north of Tara, slowly grew into a village and the tracks slowly pushed northward.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  It had become the crossroads of travel north and south and east and west, and the little village leaped to life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  It was almost the last house on the north side of town.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
13  Right now I don't know, except that we're marching north.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
14  They dug in hastily in shallow pits to the north of the town in the valley of Peachtree Creek.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
15  After a long interval in which her breathing finally quieted and her mind steadied, Scarlett heard the sound of faint voices from up the road, the tramping of many feet coming from the north.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
Example Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
16  I still remember the mountains in the north, locked in snow and ice.
17  China bounds on Russia in the north.
18  The north of the country rose in rebellion against the government.
19  Dense fog is covering roads in the north and visibility is very poor.
20  The north and south of the island are linked by a narrow isthmus.
21  There was widespread industrial unrest in the north.
22  This combination of cheese and apples is not an invention of the north of England.
23  From the lowlands of the south to the rugged peaks in the north, Derbyshire has something for everyone.
24  The needle on a compass always points to magnetic north.
25  A compass needle always points north.
26  The farther north they went, the colder it became.
27  The wind has come round to the north.
28  The United States is bounded in the south by Mexico and in the north by Canada.
29  The company wants to situate its headquarters in the north.
30  Buildings were strung out on the north side of the river.