NORTHERN in a Sentence

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Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.

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 Meanings and Examples of NORTHERN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
northern
 a.  situated in the north, or directed toward or facing the north
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1  She waited till the train had emerged from the tunnel and was racing between the ragged edges of the northern suburbs.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
2  It was a short, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas.
3  'Well for our northern friend, Dame Isabella's Inquisition wanes in Lima, laughed Don Sebastian.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
4  Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
5  At the latter, however, lay General Webb, who commanded the armies of the king in the northern provinces, with a body of more than five thousand men.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
6  It was, however, maintained for hours, until they had reached a bay, nigh the northern termination of the lake.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
7  The warriors in front stepped aside, opening the way to their most approved orator by the action; one who spoke all those languages that were cultivated among the northern aborigines.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28
8  I probably came to this conclusion from the fact that northern people owned no slaves.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
9  You can get used to such things, too, my friend; and it is the great object of recent efforts to make our whole northern community used to them, for the glory of the Union.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  It rose to Miss Ophelia, who began to turn her thoughts towards her northern home.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
11  Northern men, northern mothers, northern Christians, have something more to do than denounce their brethren at the South; they have to look to the evil among themselves.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
12  I am already far north of London, and as I walk in the streets of Petersburgh, I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 1
13  I replied, however, that we were on a voyage of discovery towards the northern pole.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
14  I packed up my chemical instruments and the materials I had collected, resolving to finish my labours in some obscure nook in the northern highlands of Scotland.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
15  The little patches of snow which yet lingered on the northern sides of the mountains, the lakes, and the dashing of the rocky streams were all familiar and dear sights to me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  Harriet died peacefully in her enclosure at a zoo in northern Australia where she was the star attraction.
2  Other northern employers were shocked that ex-slaves refused to work in conditions that would not daunt a farmer in the North.
3  The northern city of Kano, which has a history of sectarian violence is especially tense, but has remained peaceful.
4  When I was young, I was lucky enough to see a display of the northern lights or the aurora.
5  Why did they sunder northern and southern Ireland politically and religiously?.
6  In the northern hemisphere, spring is in March and April.
7  A ruined Mayan city of northern Guatemala. It was the largest of the Mayan cities and may also be the oldest. Excavation and restoration of the ruins began in1956.
8  Gazed with wonder at the northern lights.
9  He was born in a small village in northern Spain.
10  The park is in the northern part of the city.
11  The northern end of the island juts out like a long, thin finger into the sea.
12  The frontier ranges from the northern hills to the southern coast.
13  If its strategy succeeds, Mexico could even steal a march on its northern neighbour.
14  To take on the south was to risk splintering the Democratic Party, then an angry amalgam of northern liberals, southern segregationists and pragmatists like the president, who tried to straddle the divide.
15  There are some undisputed facts. Japan was the aggressor, occupying Manchuria in northern China in 1931.