northern

Example Sentences

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Evacuation warnings stretched west into northern Thousand Oaks.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

A plant believed to have vanished decades ago has been rediscovered in remote northern Australia, thanks to a chance observation uploaded to the citizen science platform iNaturalist.

From Science Daily • May 18, 2026

The government has promised to compensate for the swathes of trees cut down by planting seedlings in Haryana -- a northern state next to New Delhi.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

Showers will be mostly confined to northern and western areas of the UK with sunny spells elsewhere.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

By the time Equiano published his book, slave ships had carried more than 160,000 Africans to America’s Chesapeake colonies, 140,000 to the Carolinas and Georgia, and 30,000 to the northern colonies.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis