NORTHERN in a Sentence
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52 example sentences for NORTHERN, such as:
1. Gazed with wonder at the northern lights.
2. The park is in the northern part of the city.
3. He was born in a small village in northern Spain.
4. In the northern hemisphere, spring is in March and April.
5. The frontier ranges from the northern hills to the southern coast.
2. The park is in the northern part of the city.
3. He was born in a small village in northern Spain.
4. In the northern hemisphere, spring is in March and April.
5. The frontier ranges from the northern hills to the southern coast.
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Meanings and Examples of NORTHERN
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northern
a. situated in or coming from regions of the north
n. a dialect of Middle English that developed into Scottish Lallans
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1 She waited till the train had emerged from the tunnel and was racing between the ragged edges of the northern suburbs.
2 It was a short, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor.
3 'Well for our northern friend, Dame Isabella's Inquisition wanes in Lima, laughed Don Sebastian.
4 Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.
5 At the latter, however, lay General Webb, who commanded the armies of the king in the northern provinces, with a body of more than five thousand men.
6 It was, however, maintained for hours, until they had reached a bay, nigh the northern termination of the lake.
7 The warriors in front stepped aside, opening the way to their most approved orator by the action; one who spoke all those languages that were cultivated among the northern aborigines.
8 I probably came to this conclusion from the fact that northern people owned no slaves.
9 You can get used to such things, too, my friend; and it is the great object of recent efforts to make our whole northern community used to them, for the glory of the Union.
10 It rose to Miss Ophelia, who began to turn her thoughts towards her northern home.
11 Northern men, northern mothers, northern Christians, have something more to do than denounce their brethren at the South; they have to look to the evil among themselves.
12 I am already far north of London, and as I walk in the streets of Petersburgh, I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight.
13 I replied, however, that we were on a voyage of discovery towards the northern pole.
14 I packed up my chemical instruments and the materials I had collected, resolving to finish my labours in some obscure nook in the northern highlands of Scotland.
15 The little patches of snow which yet lingered on the northern sides of the mountains, the lakes, and the dashing of the rocky streams were all familiar and dear sights to me.
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1 Harriet died peacefully in her enclosure at a zoo in northern Australia where she was the star attraction.
2 Other northern employers were shocked that ex-slaves refused to work in conditions that would not daunt a farmer in the North.
3 The northern city of Kano, which has a history of sectarian violence is especially tense, but has remained peaceful.
4 When I was young, I was lucky enough to see a display of the northern lights or the aurora.
5 Why did they sunder northern and southern Ireland politically and religiously?.
6 In the northern hemisphere, spring is in March and April.
7 A ruined Mayan city of northern Guatemala. It was the largest of the Mayan cities and may also be the oldest. Excavation and restoration of the ruins began in1956.
8 Gazed with wonder at the northern lights.
9 He was born in a small village in northern Spain.
10 The park is in the northern part of the city.
11 The northern end of the island juts out like a long, thin finger into the sea.
12 The frontier ranges from the northern hills to the southern coast.
13 If its strategy succeeds, Mexico could even steal a march on its northern neighbour.
14 To take on the south was to risk splintering the Democratic Party, then an angry amalgam of northern liberals, southern segregationists and pragmatists like the president, who tried to straddle the divide.
15 There are some undisputed facts. Japan was the aggressor, occupying Manchuria in northern China in 1931.