How to Use southern hemisphere in a Sentence

southern hemisphere

noun
  • Best views are in the southern hemisphere.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The two stars can be seen with the naked eye on dark, clear nights in the southern hemisphere.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 May 2020
  • Young wines from this year in the southern hemisphere would also do.
    — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2019
  • The crater lies at a high latitude in the moon's southern hemisphere.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 26 Oct. 2020
  • This is timed to coincide with the flush of green grass that comes with the southern hemisphere’s spring.
    — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Last year’s most dramatic storms were linked to bands of sunspots from the sun’s southern hemisphere.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The shift is happening in the southern hemisphere too.
    — Mary Holland, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Apesteguia said never before has such a thyreophoran been dug up anywhere in the southern hemisphere.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 12 Aug. 2022
  • This spectacle is best viewed in the southern hemisphere sky-watching spots.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2025
  • One guide is the flu strains circulating in the southern hemisphere.
    — OregonLive.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Riviera’s newest yacht has ties to both the northern and southern hemispheres.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Politico is headed for the southern hemisphere.
    — Max Tani, semafor.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Its the longest night of the year in the northern hemisphere and the shortest night in the southern hemisphere.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 1 Dec. 2019
  • So far, a spacecraft has yet to land on the Red Planet's southern hemisphere.
    — Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Right now Neptune’s southern hemisphere is in the middle of a four-decade-long summer.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 16 Apr. 2022
  • The latter can cause auroras in the northern and southern hemispheres.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • In the southern hemisphere, the last of the harvest clings to the vines and birds begin their northern migration.
    — Gala Mukomolova, refinery29.com, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The northern and southern hemispheres of Mars look very different.
    — Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2024
  • When the light display is in the southern hemisphere, it is referred to as the southern lights or aurora australis.
    — Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 12 Nov. 2025
  • With dark skies and a southern hemisphere vantage point, the region is an ideal place to hunt for meteors during the peak.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 4 May 2026
  • By studying countries in the southern hemisphere, researchers saw the effects of the virus worsen in the fall and winter.
    — Dallas News, 12 Oct. 2020
  • This includes countries like Brazil and Australia in the southern hemisphere.
    — Amy Gunia, Time, 28 Feb. 2020
  • In the northern hemisphere, the days will now get shorter and the nights longer, while in the southern hemisphere the days will now get longer and the nights shorter.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • This image shows, of course, the ringed planet itself, with the rings seen edge-on and their shadow cast across the planet's southern hemisphere cloud tops.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2011
  • Just outside Rotorua, in Te Puia, is the largest active geyser in the southern hemisphere.
    — Johanna Read, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Australia and New Zealand, in the southern hemisphere, are about to enter summer.
    — James Griffiths, CNN, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Finally, the moon phase display at 6 o’clock shows the position of the moon in the northern and southern hemispheres.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The groundhog gave us bad news, winter storms are showing no mercy, vaccines are a few months away for most of us, and the sun has ditched us for the southern hemisphere.
    — Katie Kelly Bell, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Doja Cat is taking full advantage of the southern hemisphere’s warm weather.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 4 Dec. 2025
  • The land of the southern hemisphere pulled away from this vile impactor, restructuring itself in the northern hemisphere.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 11 May 2026

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