SOUTHERN in a Sentence

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126 example sentences for SOUTHERN, such as:
1. The house has a southern aspect.
2. We have no data for southern Spain.
3. He speaks with a strong southern accent.
4. The sun was now high in the southern sky.
5. The family now resides in southern France.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SOUTHERN
southern
 a.  situated in or oriented toward the south
 a.  from the south; used especially of wind
Classic Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  He is seldom seen; at least I have never seen him except in the remoter southern seas, and then always at too great a distance to study his countenance.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
2  In one of those southern whalesmen, on a long three or four years' voyage, as often happens, the sum of the various hours you spend at the mast-head would amount to several entire months.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head.
3  She came to Memphis nearly three months ago and was taken in at the Woman's Refuge in the southern part of the city.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In III
4  But the spectacle which most concerned the young soldier was on the western bank of the lake, though quite near to its southern termination.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
5  Though not rich, he was what would be called an educated southern gentleman.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  And upon coming to the north, I expected to meet with a rough, hard-handed, and uncultivated population, living in the most Spartan-like simplicity, knowing nothing of the ease, luxury, pomp, and grandeur of southern slaveholders.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
7  The boy was the only survivor of a large family, who had been successively sold away from her to a southern market.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  On such a farm, in such a house and family, Miss Ophelia had spent a quiet existence of some forty-five years, when her cousin invited her to visit his southern mansion.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
9  He was of opinion, in fact, that southern people needed encouraging.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  You must adopt at least a piece of a southern principle, and not walk out under all that load.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  They who had shrugged their shoulders at her little peculiarities and setnesses, so unlike the careless freedom of southern manners, acknowledged that now she was the exact person that was wanted.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
12  of the southern country songbooks of the ante bellum period.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
13  There was not a white person on the place; and, in all southern courts, the testimony of colored blood is nothing.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
14  A few years since, a young southern gentleman was in Cincinnati, with a favorite servant, who had been his personal attendant from a boy.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
15  The openings for the entry of the combatants were at the northern and southern extremities of the lists, accessible by strong wooden gates, each wide enough to admit two horsemen riding abreast.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence: (91 in 7 pages)
1  I had been running around southern England in a whirlwind of activity.
2  The fragile economies of several southern African nations could be irreparably damaged.
3  The Everglades are an area of swamp in southern Florida.
4  They decided to attack their enemy's southern flank.
5  The unit is on manoeuvres in southern Italy.
6  Black slaves used to work on the cotton plantations of the southern United States.
7  We have no data for southern Spain.
8  Half of those who went east seem to have landed up in southern India.
9  Details have been given of a near miss between two airliners over southern England earlier this week.
10  This weather pattern of the southern hemisphere has no parallel in the north.
11  They conquered the southern part of the country in a few months.
12  He speaks with a strong southern accent.
13  The house has a southern aspect.
14  The family now resides in southern France.
15  The sun was now high in the southern sky.