southern
Example Sentences
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Others once more commonly associated with southern England have also spread further north.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
They quickly swept into the Red Sea port city of Mokha and took Perim Island in the Bab al-Mandeb, the narrow southern mouth of the Red Sea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
England are instead building towards a 50-over World Cup in southern Africa in the autumn of 2027.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
In the early 1640s, Mr. Mancall writes, Eliot decided “he would bring the word of Christ to the Algonquian-speaking people of southern New England.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Of course there were massive accounting problems in calculating the different state debts, not the least of the difficulties being sloppy records kept by several southern states, with Virginia topping the list for administrative disarray.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
