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Example sentences for "northbound"

Lexicographically close words:
norme; normous; norms; norra; north; northe; northeast; northeaster; northeasterly; northeastern
  1. Twenty-three other persons, the most of them also trying to catch the northbound flyer of the B.

  2. I wanted to catch the northbound flyer of the Buffalo, Rochester, and Pittsburg railroad out of the latter town.

  3. He says that the three disappeared in the crowd and he thought they joined the throng which was waiting for the northbound boat of the Hudson River Day Line.

  4. Brushing the warning aside, he went on defiantly, and just before he came within identifying range of the loungers on the hotel porch an omnibus backed to the curb to deliver its complement of passengers from the lately met northbound train.

  5. Broffin got down on his hands and knees to grope for it, and while he was groping the chance to take the northbound "Limited" was lost.

  6. He is known to have escaped from his northbound steamer at Cairns, stolen a fishing sloop, and is believed to have headed back to Townsville to carry out the dastardly act his disordered brain has evidently nursed for years.

  7. The only northbound boat, the Waga Tiri, which would arrive within the limit, had already left Sydney but could be overtaken at Brisbane by entraining at once.

  8. It was not until the next northbound boat brought the Sydney papers to Townsville that we learned what a wave of surprise and speculation had been started by our joint hegira.

  9. The pursuit began to reshape its surface of detection from englobement to a cylinder, the axis of which lay congruent with the Northbound Tramway.

  10. The foremost of them saw her trim figure disappearing into the distance, eclipsed by the myriads of innocent souls whose only desire was to make use of the same Northbound Tramway.

  11. On this sheet, the chief northbound train, No.

  12. Thus Matt Peasley, with his cargo half discharged at San Pedro, would estimate that he would sail from that port, northbound via San Francisco to some Oregon or Washington port for another cargo, at noon on the following day.

  13. The Blue Star Navigation Company will doubtless collect the freight on that northbound cargo.

  14. Yes, I was assigned to the overpass--the Stemmons Freeway overpass northbound at Elm Street--over Elm.

  15. We all proceeded to stop the traffic northbound on Stemmons.

  16. Scotty was close to the reef on the northbound leg, while Rick was about twenty feet farther out.

  17. On the northbound leg they had trouble keeping the boards down because of the tendency of the lead rope to pull the front of the boards up, but by crawling far forward, they managed.

  18. Agents of the Chicago stockyards would come down along the trails into the Indian Nations to meet the northbound herds and to try to divert them to this or that market as a shipping-point.

  19. The lower cities took their tribute of the northbound cattle for quite a time.

  20. The railroad builders began to calculate that one day they would parallel the northbound cow trail with iron trails of their own and compete with nature for the carrying of this beef.

  21. Men began to talk of fencing off the trails, and keeping the northbound herds within the fences--a thing obviously impossible.

  22. But this was after the homesteaders had arrived and put up their wire fences, cutting off from the town the holding grounds of the northbound herds.

  23. This was the primary cause of the great northbound drives already mentioned, the greatest pastoral phenomena in the story of the world.

  24. From the South now appeared that tremendous and elemental force--most revolutionary of all the great changes we have noted in the swiftly changing West--the bringing in of thousands of horned kine along the northbound trails.

  25. One night nearly fifty of Tifton boarded northbound passenger trains, which already carried, it is said, some three hundred negroes.

  26. Thirty-seven negroes the other day boarded a northbound train at Douglas for Pittsburgh.

  27. The northbound caravans carried the peculiar variety of pepper called "grains of paradise" from the region later known as Liberia, gold from the Dahomey district, palm oil from the lower Niger, and ivory and slaves from far and wide.

  28. For several years thereafter the town was left in charge of the youngest of these princes, Henry, who there acquired an enduring desire to gain for Portugal and Christianity the regions whence the northbound caravans were coming.

  29. On the northbound Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific express.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "northbound" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arctic; boreal; east; easterly; north; northeast; northerly; northern; northwest; northwesterly; south; southeast; southerly; southern; southwest; west; westerly; western