With Sandiapu as a pivot, however, Oku drove the attack in a northeasterly direction, rather than northward, parallel to the Russian lines.
The British ships lined up abreast and proceeded in a northeasterly direction.
One division followed the cavalry on the right; another took a northeasterly direction.
By nine in the morning the German ships were drawn out in single file, running parallel with the shore in a northeasterly direction.
On the 19th of April Narvaez struck inland in a northward or northeasterly direction; and having learned a little of the country, moved on with three hundred men, forty of them mounted.
Here Coronado entered upon the desert, and proceeding in a northeasterly direction he came in a fortnight’s time to a river, to which the name of the Vermejo was given, on account of its turbid waters.
Sopete said there were villages farther down the river; and accordingly he followed the northern bank for three days or more in a northeasterly direction, until he came to one situated upon a branch of the great river.
At its southern extremity, a deep ravine with exceedingly deep, scrub-clad sides, runs inland in a northeasterly direction.
He directed the steps of his army in a northeasterly direction towards a town called Ocali, about sixty miles from their encampment.
He then resumed his journey, in a northeasterly direction, along the banks of some unknown river, fringed with mulberry trees, and winding through many luxuriant and beautiful valleys.
In the month of March, 1540, De Soto left his comfortable quarters, and commenced his march for that province, in a northeasterly direction.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "northeasterly direction" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
