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Example sentences for "southeasterly"

Lexicographically close words:
south; southbound; southe; southeast; southeaster; southeastern; southeastward; southerly; southermost; southern
  1. Then we mounted, and galloped in a southeasterly direction, over a fertile plain, waving at this season of the year with luxuriant crops.

  2. The water was low, and a few miles above we forded the river at a rapid, and marched in a southeasterly direction over a less broken country.

  3. We crossed the large dry bed of a muddy lake in a southeasterly direction, and encamped at night, without water and without grass, among sage-bushes covered with snow.

  4. The most varied and beautiful part of the entire Black Mesa Reserve lies in the country extending southeasterly from Ord and Thomas peaks and immediately south of the "Big Mesa.

  5. Pendleton, southeasterly through La Grande, Baker and Huntington to a junction with Highway No.

  6. Albany, southeasterly to a junction with Highway No.

  7. Crater Lake, southeasterly to a junction with Highway No.

  8. LaPine southeasterly through Fort Rock, Silver Lake, Paisley and Lakeview to the Oregon-California State Line.

  9. Ezekiel Marsh, and southeasterly on land of the said Zachariah King to the bound first mentioned.

  10. This was the closing in of General von Kluck's army in a southeasterly direction.

  11. From the left bank of the Jadar, from its junction with the Drina to Jarebitze, a great rolling level stretches south until the high Guchevo Mountains, stretching in southeasterly direction, rise abruptly and hide the Bosnian hills from view.

  12. Admiral Hipper, the German commander, as soon as he knew the enemy had sighted him, turned about and started to steam in a southeasterly direction.

  13. Foiled in their attempt to invest Paris, the Germans have been driven to move in an easterly and southeasterly direction with the apparent intention of falling in strength upon the Fifth French Army.

  14. The Housatonic has always had its present southeasterly course, but the Still, heading at some point in its valley north of Danbury, flowed initially southward through one of four possible outlets.

  15. The Housatonic has always held its present southeasterly course, and the Still initially flowed southward, as stated above.

  16. The Housatonic has always held its present southeasterly course, but the Still has developed from the beginning as a subsequent stream in the direction in which it now flows.

  17. Beatty's squadron developed a battle line on a southeasterly course and Vice Admiral Hipper formed his line ahead on the same general course and approached for a running fight.

  18. After the conquest of Pinsk, Von Mackensen's army for a few days continued its advance from that town in a northeasterly, easterly, and southeasterly direction.

  19. Turning southeasterly along the coast Point Nisibon is reached, where a calcareous rock formation and soil suitable for sugar planting begins.

  20. Continuing with his remaining caravels, the Santa Maria and the Niña, Columbus reached Cape Maisi, the easternmost point of Cuba, where he sighted a high mountainous land lying in a southeasterly direction.

  21. From the Yásica River, the mouth of which is about 100 feet wide, an uneven rocky stretch of coast extends in a southeasterly direction to Cape Frances Viejo, where there is a new lighthouse.

  22. Rum river flows in a southeasterly direction through the county, and by this river, its tributaries and those of the Mississippi and St. Croix, the county is well watered and drained.

  23. He did that without our asking him, and conducted us in a direction more southeasterly to their king or sackemaker, who lived two or three miles from there.

  24. Here the coast-line, which had been running in a generally east southeasterly direction all the way from the Pacific, turns sharply to the north, and in a few miles a new scene is disclosed.

  25. He passed both Narrows, crossed the open piece of water, and then, halting at a point where the channel forks, he sent out two of his ships to examine the southeasterly one while he took the southwestern.

  26. Leaving the Ball-room the passage leads southeasterly for a distance of 125 feet to where there is a parting of the ways.

  27. Stuart moved two and a half miles out on the York turnpike, when he turned to the right by a country road that runs southeasterly past the Stallsmith farm.

  28. It runs in a southeasterly course, so that its mouth is four miles or more south of a line drawn due east from the point where it deserts the foot-hills on the west side of the valley.

  29. Thenceforward we began to meet southeasterly winds, which never failed us, and which seem to prevail in those regions.

  30. We sailed with easterly and east southeasterly winds, now southwest by west and now northwest by west, for about four hundred leguas.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "southeasterly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.