SOUTHERN in a Sentence

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For SOUTHERN, below is one of 126 sentences:
She came to Memphis nearly three months ago and was taken in at the Woman's Refuge in the southern part of the city.

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 Meanings and Examples of SOUTHERN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
southern
 a.  situated in the south or directed toward the south
Classic Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  He is seldom seen; at least I have never seen him except in the remoter southern seas, and then always at too great a distance to study his countenance.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
2  In one of those southern whalesmen, on a long three or four years' voyage, as often happens, the sum of the various hours you spend at the mast-head would amount to several entire months.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head.
3  She came to Memphis nearly three months ago and was taken in at the Woman's Refuge in the southern part of the city.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In III
4  But the spectacle which most concerned the young soldier was on the western bank of the lake, though quite near to its southern termination.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
5  Though not rich, he was what would be called an educated southern gentleman.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  And upon coming to the north, I expected to meet with a rough, hard-handed, and uncultivated population, living in the most Spartan-like simplicity, knowing nothing of the ease, luxury, pomp, and grandeur of southern slaveholders.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
7  The boy was the only survivor of a large family, who had been successively sold away from her to a southern market.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  On such a farm, in such a house and family, Miss Ophelia had spent a quiet existence of some forty-five years, when her cousin invited her to visit his southern mansion.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
9  He was of opinion, in fact, that southern people needed encouraging.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  You must adopt at least a piece of a southern principle, and not walk out under all that load.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  They who had shrugged their shoulders at her little peculiarities and setnesses, so unlike the careless freedom of southern manners, acknowledged that now she was the exact person that was wanted.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
12  of the southern country songbooks of the ante bellum period.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
13  There was not a white person on the place; and, in all southern courts, the testimony of colored blood is nothing.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
14  A few years since, a young southern gentleman was in Cincinnati, with a favorite servant, who had been his personal attendant from a boy.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
15  The openings for the entry of the combatants were at the northern and southern extremities of the lists, accessible by strong wooden gates, each wide enough to admit two horsemen riding abreast.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence: (91 in 7 pages)
16  The Canadians plan to deliver more food to southern Somalia.
17  It lies at the southern tip of an island.
18  Clay overlies chalk in the southern mountains.
19  Armadillos range from South America to the southern part of the US.
20  We continued along the southern boundary of the country.
21  He has traveled in southern cities.
22  The sunbelt stretches from Florida to southern California.
23  They threatened to exile her in southern Spain.
24  He mimicked her southern accent.
25  His abductors blindfolded him and drove him to a flat in southern Beirut.
26  They murdered fifteen boys in a killing spree across southern California.
27  The Republicans are gaining ground in the southern states.
28  Brighton is in southern England.
29  The southern parts of the country had fallen into rebel control.
30  She spoke in a slow southern drawl.