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How to use southerly in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun, adjective, adverb

Southerly means a wind blowing from the south. Example: “Being one of the most southerly parts of the UK, the Isle of Wight has a milder subclimate than most other areas.”

Examples of southerly by meaning

adjectiveFacing the south; directed towards the south.

  • a southerly voyage

adjectiveLocated towards or in the south.

  • The islands of Jyuguang Township (莒光鄉; Jǔguāng xiāng), Dongju (東莒; Dōngjǔ; Tongchu) and Xiju (西莒; Xījǔ; Hsichu), are the most southerly of Matsu’s islands.2017 May, Piera Chen, Dinah Gardner, “Taiwan's Islands”, in Lonely Planet Taiwan (Lonely Planet), 10th edition (Travel), Lonely Planet...

adjectiveComing from the south.

  • Warm, moist air was brought by southerly winds

More sentences with southerly

  • Being one of the most southerly parts of the UK, the Isle of Wight has a milder subclimate than most other areas.From the entry subclimate
  • The Yahi or Deer Creek Indians is the most southerly division of the Yanan stock.1951, Charles Haywood, “The California Area: Tribes. Yana”, in A Bibliography Of North American Folklore And Folksong, Book Two: The…. From the entry Yanan
  • Chinchillids like Eoviscaccia are not yet strongly adapted to the cooler climates found in either high altitudes or southerly altitudes.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 66. From the entry chinchillid
  • Hedeby (the heath-settlement) was Scandinavia's most southerly mercantile center.2004, Kirsten Wolf, Daily Life of the Vikings, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 32. From the entry Hedeby
  • The southerly caught the tree and tipped it.1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber & Faber, published 2003, page 56. From the entry brushtail possum
  • Impatiently turning his caballo's head he started the animal at an easy one-step gait in a southerly direction.1924, Stephen Chalmers, Four in One Westerns, page 10. From the entry caballo
  • In parts of the Eromanga Basin that were the most southerly during Cretaceous times some of the Bulldog Shale contains pineapple-shaped crystal clusters known as glendonites.1994, Mary E. White, After the Greening, Kangaroo Press, page 38. From the entry Eromanga
  • He spoke of his several forefathers' experience at expanding the Far Fleets, which rendered safe all fareways running between the Attican Peninsula and all southerly depots that had been mentioned.2011, House Ascendant, page 362. From the entry fareway

Meaning of southerly

  1. noun A wind blowing from the south.
  2. adjective Facing the south; directed towards the south.
  3. adjective Located towards or in the south.

Full definition of southerly

Questions about southerly in a sentence

How do you use southerly in a sentence?
Southerly is used as a noun, adjective and adverb. For example: “Being one of the most southerly parts of the UK, the Isle of Wight has a milder subclimate than most other areas.”
What is a short sentence with southerly?
“a southerly voyage”
What does southerly mean?
Southerly means a wind blowing from the south.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: southerly (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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