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Example sentences for "southwesterly"

Lexicographically close words:
southpaw; southward; southwardly; southwards; southwest; southwestern; southwestward; souuent; souvenir; souvenirs
  1. The Hoangho Port-Hankow Line This line starts from the Hoangho Port in a southwesterly direction to Pohsing, Sincheng, and Changshan, then across the Kiauchow-Tsinan line to Poshan.

  2. The Haichow-Hankow Line This line starts at Haichow in a southwesterly direction, goes to Shuyang and Sutsien, probably in the same route as the projected Hailan line.

  3. From Mariners Island following the Fatshan Creek, a straight channel should be cut in a southwesterly direction to the Tamchow Channel.

  4. He set out from Europe by a southwesterly direction through the Canary Islands to San Salvador, in the Bahama Group.

  5. It starts from Tungchin, proceeding in a southwesterly direction, passes Kwangan, midway between Tungchin and the West Liaoho, and many other small settlements before it crosses the Liaoho.

  6. Then it proceeds up the Kumara River in a westerly and southwesterly direction to its southern source and there it crosses the watershed into the Halarh Valley, thence descending the valley to Chilalin or Shihwei.

  7. Ordered, That the Petition of John Whitney and others of the Southwesterly Part of Groton, lie upon the Table.

  8. A Memorial of John Whitney and others of the Southwesterly Part of Groton, praying that their Petition exhibited in November 1749 may be revived, and the Papers prefer'd at that Time again considered, for the Reasons mentioned.

  9. A southwesterly gale sent the great breakers foaming all along the shore, until even the waters of the sheltered coves were troubled.

  10. During a southwesterly gale it may be thrown up on the shingle; at any other time it may be carried out to sea.

  11. This stream before us appears to head in a southwesterly direction as near as I can judge.

  12. Framingham, eighteen miles southwesterly from Boston, was alarmed before 8 o'clock in the morning.

  13. Captain Parker's home was over two miles away, in the southwesterly part of the town, near the Waltham line.

  14. The news reached Dedham, ten miles southwesterly from Boston, a little after 9 o'clock in the morning.

  15. On approaching it we noticed that there was a current which tended to draw us past the ice in what I supposed to be a southwesterly direction.

  16. We seemed to have been carried in a southwesterly direction along a broad strait that ran into the vast ice-fields.

  17. By the 6th, Pinzon began to urge a southwesterly course, in order to find the islands, which the signs seemed to indicate in that direction.

  18. Another effect of the decrease in storminess would be to make the so-called westerly winds, which are chiefly southwesterly in the northern hemisphere and northwesterly in the southern hemisphere, more strong and steady than at present.

  19. Then the more or less southwesterly winds in quadrant A' in the right-hand part of Fig.

  20. The steady southwesterly winds, however, would interfere with south-flowing surface currents, thus compelling the polar waters to find their way equatorward beneath the surface.

  21. In quadrant A of the left-hand part all the winds move from a more or less southwesterly direction and produce a total movement of the air amounting to thirty units per year.

  22. Steadier southwesterly winds must have produced a greater movement of atmospheric as well as oceanic heat to high latitudes.

  23. Emerald Bay is about three miles in length, with a southwesterly trend, and half a mile wide.

  24. Rose by road is approximately twenty miles in a southwesterly direction from Reno, and Professor Church and his associates deemed it near enough for week-end visits.

  25. The southern road crosses numerous streams which flow down from the Cordillera to join the Yaque, turns southwesterly at Guayubin and continues to Dajabon and on into the borders of Haiti.

  26. The coast now leads southwesterly to Point Espada, shaped like a sword, and but twenty-five miles distant from the Island of Mona, a dependency of Porto Rico.

  27. It probably ran in a southwesterly direction to the Corner Gate, which was also called the Gate of the Old Wall.

  28. One main branch ran in a southwesterly direction through Apameia, Colossae, and thence by the broad and fertile valley of the River Maeander to Ephesus, the commercial and later the political capital of Asia Minor.

  29. Macoupin Creek flows southwesterly through the county of the same name, westerly through Greene County, and empties into Illinois River at the southwestern extremity of the latter county.

  30. Formed by the union of two branches rising in Jefferson County, Illinois, it flows in a southwesterly direction and empties into the Mississippi about twenty-five miles above Cape Girardeau.

  31. Little Silver Creek rises in the northeastern portion of St. Clair County and flowing southwesterly joins Silver Creek two miles below Lebanon.

  32. Nine were submitted, and most of them proposed starting from St. Louis, thence going overland in a southwesterly direction usually via Albuquerque.

  33. At ten forty-five this jet would have been north of Dayton on a southwesterly heading.

  34. Finding the coast clear in the morning, he emerged and at once set out walking in a southwesterly direction, which eventually brought him to a cattle-ranche, the owner of which supplied him with refreshment and a fresh mustang.

  35. We are running at a speed of thirty miles an hour in a southwesterly direction, along the Persian frontier.

  36. The train leaving Kizil Arvat went off in a southwesterly direction towards Askhabad, along the Persian frontier.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "southwesterly" 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