northward

Example Sentences

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Looking across them toward Northward Hill, two miles away, I feel my city eyes widening, adjusting to the open space.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2018

Robert Franklin, a maintenance foreman for JL Properties Inc., which manages the Courthouse Square and the Northward apartment building, calls pigeons flying rats.

From US News • Dec. 8, 2014

"It was one of the best deals you'll ever see," said Simon Rutherfurd, a portfolio manager at Northward Capital.

From Reuters • Feb. 18, 2013

One features excessive hiking and attracts the under-fifties—not her target market—and the other goes in for singsongs and dressing up in silly outfits, so she’s stuck with Magnetic Northward, which offers the comfort of familiarity.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 12, 2011

These were such people as he had known as a boy in the Northward Vale of Gont, though poorer even than those.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin