How to Use northeastern in a Sentence

northeastern

adjective
  • This trail runs along the northern edge of the northeastern flank of the fire.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The park sits on Navajo lands in the northeastern part of the state.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Francine was moving in a northeastern path at 12 miles per hour.
    — Kevin Drew, NPR, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The northeastern island is breezy year-round, and those winds can pick up in the winter and spring.
    — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Takeuchi reeled in the fish off the coast of Oma, a small town in northeastern Japan.
    — Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The largest risk looms on the northeastern plains, forecasters said.
    — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 7 June 2026
  • Khamenei will be buried in his home city of Mashhad in northeastern Iran.
    — CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Huge areas of northeastern forests were cut down in Colonial times to make way for farms.
    — Alex Kuffner, The Providence Journal, 12 Feb. 2026
  • We were both born in Russas, a small town in northeastern Brazil.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The hottest conditions will be in the northeastern portion of the state.
    — Remington Miller, Arkansas Online, 16 June 2022
  • It's has grown from a kind of elite northeastern game 20 years ago to countrywide now.
    — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 10 May 2026
  • Asya Branch is from the small town of Booneville, in the northeastern corner of the state.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2021
  • In Oregon last year, wildlife troopers found eight dead wolves in the northeastern part of the state.
    — CBS News, 11 Oct. 2022
  • About half of the recipients in Ohio are in the northeastern part of the state.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Residents of the northeastern town insist the land is cursed.
    — Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2026
  • The dogs were stolen from a village in northeastern China by thieves working for a dog meat shop.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2026
  • While poison sumac is mostly found in the northeastern part of the state, the plant loves to live in swamps, bogs and wet areas.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The edge of the path also clips the northeastern corner of Sudan.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • The Coral Sea is off the northeastern coast of Australia.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
  • So is the decision to turn more of the northeastern section of the bay back into wetlands.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2024
  • At this time, northeastern Thailand would have been arid to semi-arid—perfect for sauropods.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 May 2026
  • The dinosaur's bones were found at the edge of a pond in northeastern Thailand 10 years ago.
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 15 May 2026
  • Elsewhere, videos showed large crowds gathered in the northeastern city of Mashhad.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The northeastern city lies about 30 miles from the Russian border.
    — Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The catamounts were known as an eastern cougar and mostly seen in northeastern states and in Canada.
    — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2023
  • No homes were lost on the northeastern side of the fire nearest to the lake, and crews managed to carve more fire line along one edge of a fiery finger.
    — Sam Metz, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Start out by looking in the very high northeastern sky for the upside-down Big Dipper.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 18 May 2025
  • Labs in the northeastern state of Assam started running out of the resource, too.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Northeastern batters struck out 12 times.
    — Staff Report, Boston Herald, 29 May 2026
  • The waters off the northeastern coast of the United States are some of the fastest warming in the world.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Jan. 2022

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