northward

Example Sentences

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Worries about inflation and the war in Iran have sent long-term interest rates northward, with the 30-year Treasury yield recently eclipsing 5%.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

Weekend trips into nearby Hartford, where no venues imposed racial segregation, contrasted with everything King had seen in his native Atlanta, and with the discriminatory conditions he had endured on his rail journey northward.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

As rain then spreads northward across England and Wales, it meets the colder Artic air we have had in place over the past week, resulting in the rain turning to snow by Thursday evening.

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026

This large-scale system influences global climate by carrying warm, salty surface waters northward and sending cooler waters back toward the tropics at depth.

From Science Daily • Dec. 7, 2025

Crevasses—some wide enough to sink villages in, not house by house but all at once—run inland, northward, right out of sight.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin