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• Thousands of people moved northward trying to flee the drought.From the entry flee
• Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.From the entry pole
• Like the Arawaks and the Caribs, they had migrated northward into Suriname.2009 January 8, Thomas Streissguth, Suriname in Pictures, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry carib
• After taking one life, Hurricane Gloria relented and swept northward, leaving wrecked buildings, piers, boats.1987 October, Charles E. Cobb, Jr., “North Carolina's Outer Banks”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, page 490. From the entry life
• After a five-day rest at Huili, the Red Army continued its drive northward.[1978 February, “The Long March (II)”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVII, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 39…. From the entry Xichang
• At Wuchung it starts on its northward course, known as the Great Bend, across the Ordos Desert.1970, T. R. Tregear, An Economic Geography of China, Butterworths, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 60. From the entry ordos
• The North Korean Army had been beaten and was fleeing northward; victory seemed complete.1963, Dwight Eisenhower, Mandate for Change 1953-1956, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 176. From the entry Red Chinese
• Then she started northward, by way of the Ryukyu Islands, for the Sea of Japan.1936, Herbert H. Gowen, chapter IV, in Five Foreigners in Japan, Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries Press, Inc., published 1967…. From the entry Quelparte
• Since they had passed the blockade there had not been a single ship going northward towards Waters End.2017, Jesper Schmidt, Desolation, Fantasy Publishing, page 297. From the entry riverfaring
• Thus, it is suggested that this species expanded its range of distribution northward to Gulf of Edremit in time.2016, Engin Meriç, M Baki Yokeş, Niyazi Avşar, Feyza Dinçer, “New observations of alien foraminifera on the Turkish coasts of the Aegean…. From the entry gulves
• Then again, Sima Qian says that, after crossing the river, the Wall wound northward to touch a mountain north-west of Hohhot.2008, John Man, The Great Wall, Bantam Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 35. From the entry Hohhot
• From the capital city of México the trail pointed northward.1968, Robert S[amuel] Weddle, “Finding the Gateway”, in San Juan Bautista: Gateway to Spanish Texas, Austin, Tex.; London: University of…. From the entry México
• One of these groups went northward and came out via Fort Hertz; another went eastward and emerged at Pao-shan in Yunnan.1953, Charles F. Romanus, Riley Sunderland, Stilwell's Mission to China, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 303–304. From the entry Pao-shan
• As Noyes bade me adieu and rode off northward in his car I began to walk slowly toward the house.1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 6, in The Whisperer in Darkness. From the entry adieu
• Further, the terrestrial niche for an Arctic bear is already occupied and there are indications that barren-ground grizzlies are already advancing northward.2012, Michael MacCracken, Sudden and Disruptive Climate Change, →ISBN. From the entry arctic bear
• But no wall winds northward here.2008, John Man, The Great Wall, Bantam Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 35. From the entry Hohhot
• The main extensions had taken place northward along the Huangpu River in Yangshupu and Wusong River (Suzhou Creek) and west of the Walled City.2004, Marie-Claire Bergère, “Shanghai's Urban Development: A Remake?”, in Seng Kuan, Peter G. Rowe, editors, Shanghai: Architecture &…. From the entry Yangshupu
• The existence of magmatic belts younging northward implies that slabs of Asian mantle subducted one after another under ranges north of the Himalayas.2001 November 23, Paul Tapponnier et al., “Oblique Stepwise Rise and Growth of the Tibet Plateau”, in Science, volume 294, number 5547…. From the entry young
• An indigenously generated nexus of commercial relations extended all across these regions, as well as northward to the Znaga of the western Sahara.2001, Michael Adas, Agricultural and Pastoral Societies in Ancient and Classical History, page 261. From the entry Znaga
• On the plains of Vojvodina waves of yellow wheat sweep northward from the Sava and Danube Rivers toward the Great Hungarian Plain.1990 August, Kenneth C. Danforth, “Yugoslavia: A House Much Divided”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, page 103. From the entry Vojvodina
• The east wall is decorated in raised relief with two registers of scenes above a dado showing a northward fecundity figure procession.1989, Eleni Vassilika, Ptolemaic Philae, page 76. From the entry register
• Then on May 11, Sun launched his campaign into Kiangsi from Shao-kuan, which was the head of the railway from Canton northward.1976, C. Martin Wilbur, “Molding Influences and the Career Line”, in Sun Yat-sen: Frustrated Patriot, Columbia University Press, →ISBN…. From the entry Shao-kuan
• From Peking air routes extend northward to Ch’i-ch’i-ha-erh in Manchuria, southeastward to Shanghai, southward to the island of Hainan, and westward to K’a-shih in Sinkiang.1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, “Transportation”, in Christopher L. Salter, editor, Atlas of China [中國地圖集], McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC…. From the entry Ch'i-ch'i-ha-erh
• The peaks of the Wasatch notched the west, the barren Wyoming plateau northward swelled up toward South Pass and the snowy Wind River Mountains.1954, Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN…. From the entry Wind River Mountains
• As the remnants retreated northward to Pengyang (平壤 Pʻing-jang), war was declared and a Chinese contingent from Manchuria went southward to that place.1943, Fang Chao-ying, “SUNG Chʻing [宋慶]”, in Arthur W. Hummel, editor, Eminent Chinese of the Chʻing Period (1644–1912), Washington, D.C.…. From the entry southward
• It required a week to make repairs in Keelung; then we went northward to the Loo Choo Islands, that "Forgotten Kingdom of the East."1943, Roy Chapman Andrews, Under a Lucky Star, New York: Viking Press, page 78. From the entry Keelung
• As the area where the two air masses meet, called the Arctic front, moves northward and eastward, conditions for bombogenesis should continue moving as well, Mr.2022 December 23, Henry Fountain, “What Is a ‘Bomb Cyclone’?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry bombogenesis
• Northward on the First Coast, Amelia Island is the “Isle of Eight Flags,” so they one could expect to find some different culinary experiences here as well.2014, Shelley Marsh, Fifty First Coast Dates. From the entry First Coast
• Dungey (7 ) first sketched the consequences for an interplanetary (solar wind) magnetic field (IMF) that was oppositely directed (southwardly) from the generally northward terrestrial field.2000 June 16, John G. Lyon, “The Solar Wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere System”, in Science, volume 288, number 5473, →DOI, pages 1987–1991. From the entry southwardly
• Here around Gray, the mainly Ythrian settlements northward merged with the mainly human south; both ecologies blent with Avalon’s own, and the country became a checkerboard.1973, Poul Anderson, The People of the Wind. From the entry blent
• On that August Thursday afternoon, there was little freight traffic; a large "K3" Mogul went down with a short, fast goods, and a W.D. 2-8-0 proceeded northward light.1951 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 44. From the entry light
• The nymotypical form occurs in the high mountains of Europe: the Pyrenees, Alps, Apennines, Carpathians and Balcan; the varietal forms distributed northward to Finland and eastwards to East Siberia.1908, Adalbert Seitz, The Macrolepidoptera of the World, page 108. From the entry nymotypical
• The campaign's objective was not clearly stated, but Guan Yu led his army along the Han River northward until he laid siege to Fancheng (present-day's Fancheng District in Xiangyang, Hubei).2014, Frankie KT Neo, “Flooding of Han River at Fancheng [水淹七軍]”, in Guan-Yu the Hero: Romance of the Three Kingdoms [關羽，三國演義英雄], →ISBN…. From the entry Fancheng
• But by then Niënor had passed away like a wraith; and neither sight nor slot of her could they find, though they hunted far northward and searched for many days.2007, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Tale of the Children of Húrin, page 212. From the entry slot
• I thought of it as very empty, very quiet, all white and blue, with a faint golden glow northward from the unrising sun behind the long peak of Mount Erebus.1982, Ursula K. Le Guin, The Compass Rose. From the entry unrising

Meaning of northward

1. noun The direction or area lying to the north of a place.
2. adjective Situated or directed towards the north; moving or facing towards the north.
3. adverb Towards the north; in a northerly direction.

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How do you use northward in a sentence?

Northward is used as a noun, adjective and adverb. For example: “Thousands of people moved northward trying to flee the drought.”

What is a short sentence with northward?

“But no wall winds northward here.”

What does northward mean?

Northward means the direction or area lying to the north of a place.