northwards in English
adverb
['north·wards || 'ɔrðərnwə(r)dz /'nɔːðn-]
toward the north, northward
Use "northwards" in a sentence
1. The Khan returned northwards, content to leave the Shah in India.
2. Winds blowing across the Indian Ocean collect moisture and sweep northwards towards the Himalayas.
3. The spout projects invariably northwards irrespective of the direction of the sanctum .
4. 19 Europe and North America will shift thousands of kilometres northwards into the polar region.
5. Northwards it swells somewhat in Breadth, and runs out to the shore of the Noric Channel
6. After securing a vast area formerly controlled by the military, the LTTE further advanced northwards.
7. On Saturday, 3 May the wind blew the ash cloud northwards, alleviating the situation in Saint-Pierre.
8. 26 She was also mustering troops, and planned to lead them northwards to join up with her son.
9. A narrower, weaker counter current, the Davidson Current, occasionally moves somewhat warmer water northwards during the winter months.
10. Further north along Ermine Street, another road branched northwards to follow the proposed alignment of King Street skirting the fen edge.
11. Amphiuma tridactylum occurs in Coast Plain habitats from eastern Texas to western Alabama, and the range extends northwards up the Mississippi Valley to southeastern Missouri and extreme western Kentucky
12. Many of the "unofficial languages" of the San and Khoikhoi people contain regional dialects stretching northwards into Namibia and Botswana, and elsewhere.
13. As the India Plate drifted northwards at a relatively rapid rate of an average 16 cm/yr, it also rotated in a counterclockwise direction.
14. Herodotus recounts that, according to the Athenians, as the battle began the Corinthians hoisted their sails and began sailing away from the battle, northwards up the straits.
15. In the 1980s and 1990s, the economic centre of the country continued to shift northwards and is now concentrated in the populous Flemish Diamond area.
16. He explored the Lualaba and, failing to find connections to the Nile, returned to Lake Bangweulu and its swamps to explore possible rivers flowing out northwards.
17. It is a right tributary, flowing roughly northwards from its source in the small Mainskoe Lake, located in the northern part of the Parapol Valley, in the Koryak Mountain Range.
18. The balloon flew northwards for 45 minutes, pursued by chasers on horseback, and landed 21 kilometers away in the village of Gonesse where the reportedly terrified local peasants destroyed it with pitchforks or knives.
19. Brabant Name Meaning Ethnic name (in France and England as well as Germany and the Low Countries) for a native of Brabant, a medieval duchy (capital Brussels), which extended from what is now central Belgium northwards into the Netherlands
20. They assumed that Halsey was leaving this powerful surface force guarding the San Bernardino Strait (and covering the Seventh Fleet's northern flank), while he took his three available carrier groups northwards in pursuit of the Japanese carriers.
21. It is made up of sand that has been accumulating for approximately 750,000 years on volcanic bedrock that provides a natural catchment for the sediment which is carried on a strong offshore current northwards along the coast.
22. The Altai region, in West Siberia and Mongolia, is similar in character to Switzerland, but covers a very much greater area.It extends from the river Irtysh and the Dzungarian depression (46°–47° N.) northwards to the Siberian railway and to the Sayan mountains.
23. Artemisia afra is a common species in South Africa with a wide distribution from the Cederberg Mountains in the Cape, northwards to tropical East Africa and stretching as far north as Ethiopia.In the wild it grows at altitudes between 20-2 440 m on damp slopes, along streamsides and forest margins
24. The Basques have occupied much the same area of northern Spain and southern France for thousands of years, extending further eastward and northwards into Gascony and the Pyrenees, as attested by archaeological and toponymical evidence, and speak a language whose ties to other living languages are unclear at …