(adv.) Toward the north, or toward a point nearer to the north than to the east or west point.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since then oil exploration has built up considerably, the main effort moving northwards between the Shetland Islands and the Norwegian coasts.
(2) Butterflies and birds were already migrating northwards to the poles , he added.
(3) The Russian official warned about the formation of an Islamic caliphate in Iraq, which was in the process of disintegrating; he warned that this caliphate would try to take control of the Middle East and, from there, would send its long arms northward, via the Islamic former Soviet republics.
(4) Proceeding northwards towards Mamfe, infections with P. africanus decreased steadily, whereas infections with P. uterobilateralis increased.
(5) The data presented here show that the distinctive features of Languedoc extend northwards through the Rhône Valley up to Lyon and disappears southwards before the Spanish border.
(6) After decades dreaming of life among olive trees and vineyards, these days for some reason, we Brits are now projecting our need for the existence of an earthly paradise northwards.
(7) Table: Countrywide Nick Dunning, group commercial director at Countrywide, said: "2013 saw the focus of demand shift sharply northwards after several years of more stable levels of supply and demand.
(8) Erdoğan has also been criticised by EU countries for pursuing his vendetta with the Kurds while failing to stem the northwards flow of Syrian refugees and the southwards flow of Isis recruits from Europe and North America.
(9) Crops in Russia may be able to expand northwards but yields will be much lower because the soils are less fertile.
(10) The story of racial conflict that emerged in the 20th century north is well documented in histories written by Isabel Wilkerson about the migration northward, by Tom Sugrue about the decline of Detroit, and by Arnold Hirsch about the south side of Chicago.
(11) Evidence suggests that the AHF endemic area may continue to expand northward.
(12) The flow of drugs northward appears to have continued unabated despite a string of cartel bosses being captured or killed in the years since he launched the offensive.
(13) As to the specific cause of the earthquake, it was triggered by the India tectonic plate, which is moving northwards at the rate of 5cm a year into central Asia.
(14) With less than a week to go until the Sun crosses northwards over the equator at the vernal equinox, it is showing real signs of rebirth in another respect.
(15) The British comma butterfly has moved 137 miles northward in the past two decades, while geometrid moths on Mount Kinabalu in Borneo have shifted uphill by 59 metres in 42 years.
(16) That is an apparent reference to North Korea's claim that its atomic weapons programmes deter the US and South Korea from staging a northward invasion that would allow Seoul to rule the entire Korean peninsula.
(17) The epizootic primarily affected juvenile or subadult male California sea lions migrating northward from breeding rookeries of southern California's Channel Islands.
(18) These birds seemed to be capable of making really dramatic movements at short notice, even just after returning on their northwards migration,” he said.
(19) Many Labour MPs in the north believe that rather than spreading prosperity northwards – and narrowing the north-south divide – HS2 will suck even more prosperity southwards as a result of faster links.
(20) Species of butterflies and birds could be squeezed northwards, and great white sharks could be regular visitors to UK waters.
Southwards
Definition:
(adv.) Toward the south, or toward a point nearer the south than the east or west point; as, to go southward.
Example Sentences:
(1) The result was to shift the intertropical convergence zone southwards.
(2) YouTube today is the biggest music service on the planet, thanks to our artists, our fans, our partners and the millions of official music videos, remixes, covers, mashups … you name it,” YouTube’s music content partnerships boss, Anjali Southward, told the Guardian.
(3) When a boat’s hull was packed with human cargo, it would depart southward to Thailand or Malaysia.
(4) The data presented here show that the distinctive features of Languedoc extend northwards through the Rhône Valley up to Lyon and disappears southwards before the Spanish border.
(5) Erdoğan has also been criticised by EU countries for pursuing his vendetta with the Kurds while failing to stem the northwards flow of Syrian refugees and the southwards flow of Isis recruits from Europe and North America.
(6) Both share a conviction that the Christian world's centre of gravity is moving southwards.
(7) So this very strong jet stream has kept this cold air locked in, and then suddenly it's been allowed to be released, sort of splurged out southwards, due to various meteorological factors.
(8) Aedes furcifer was collected for the first time at Durban, extending its distribution southward to latitude 29 degrees 53' S.
(9) But despite a UN security council resolution and unanimous approval , the plan had got nowhere when the al-Qaida affiliated Islamist groups began an offensive southwards, easily overcoming Malian army resistance.
(10) The interstate highway may have been a barrier to deer movement which slowed the southward dispersal of Ixodes dammini.
(11) Macronyssid mites (Radfordiella) have been found in the oral mucosa of the long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris nivalis), which occurs from Texas southward throughout much of Mexico.
(12) Authentic Scottish Labour, no longer a “branch office” of the party in Westminster, needs to keep top talent at Holyrood, after eons of brain-drain southwards.
(13) In desert territories situated southwards from the oasis phenological dates pass ahead those for the oasis for about 10 days.
(14) Geographically, the epidemic moved eastward and southward in the state.
(15) Many Labour MPs in the north believe that rather than spreading prosperity northwards – and narrowing the north-south divide – HS2 will suck even more prosperity southwards as a result of faster links.
(16) There had long been a debate about what led to the decline of Angkor and the southward move of the Khmer seat of power.
(17) During the medieval period the entry of Islam in the subcontinent brought with it a Persian tradition of poetry, painting and music that spread from Afghanistan southwards.
(18) Major job losses since the early 1980s were heaviest in the central belt of Scotland, the north-east of England, along a line that stretches along the M62 from Liverpool to Hull, and extends southwards down the M1 into the Midlands.
(19) Throughout the desert areas southward from oasis all phenological phenomena take place in both species ten days earlier than in oasis.
(20) We are a very successful ad-supported business to date, and we have paid out over a billion dollars to the music industry,” said Southward.