northern

Example Sentences

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He and his family journeyed for hundreds of miles by cart from Tartu in southern Estonia to Hamburg in northern Germany.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

CNN stationed a reporter at Dulles Airport in northern Virginia to send live updates from the runway where his flight was scheduled to land.

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2026

Reactor number four at the Chernobyl power plant – in what is now northern Ukraine - had exploded, spewing out radioactive material that would spread across swathes of Europe.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

The findings indicate this lost landscape may have served as a welcoming refuge for plants, animals, and possibly humans long before forests became common across Britain and northern Europe.

From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2026

He claimed to be genuinely embarrassed at the stridently proslavery rhetoric of the delegates from the Deep South and much more comfortable on the high moral ground of his northern friends.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis