NORTHWARD in a Sentence

Learn NORTHWARD from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

20 example sentences for NORTHWARD, such as:

1. He looked northward towards Howth.
2. She cycled off in a northward direction.
3. It was within four miles northward of Exeter.
4. She was somewhere to the northward of the Line.
5. Europe's economic centre of gravity shifted northwards.

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 Meanings and Examples of NORTHWARD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
northward
 n.  the cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees
 a.  moving toward the north
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  Over the railroads that led down from Virginia to Atlanta and then northward to Tennessee, General Longstreet's corps had been rushed to the scene of the battle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
3  They turned into Madison Avenue and began to stroll northward.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
4  She reached Fifth Avenue and began to walk slowly northward.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
5  She had walked northward toward the upper shore of Plover Lake, taking to the railroad track, whose directness and dryness make it the natural highway for pedestrians on the plains.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
7  She was somewhere to the northward of the Line.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
8  Stood our old Sammy off to the northward, to get out of the blazing hot weather there on the Line.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 100. Leg and Arm.
9  As I still pursued my journey to the northward, the snows thickened and the cold increased in a degree almost too severe to support.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
10  It was within four miles northward of Exeter.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
11  He looked northward towards Howth.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
12  They walked northward with a curious feeling of disappointment in the exercise, while the city hung its pale globes of light above them in a haze of summer evening.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AFTER THE RACE
13  They are gone down to Newcastle, a place quite northward, it seems, and there they are to stay I do not know how long.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 53
14  In the meantime, while summoned by heralds and by trumpets, the knight was holding his course northward, avoiding all frequented paths, and taking the shortest road through the woodlands.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
15  We could not lay him in the ground there in Georgia, for the earth there is strangely red; so we bore him away to the northward, with his flowers and his little folded hands.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XI
Example Sentence:
1  As we advanced to the northward from Botany Bay, the land gradually increased in height, so that in this latitude it may be called a hilly country.
2  She cycled off in a northward direction.
3  Europe's economic centre of gravity shifted northwards.