south of

idiomatic phrase

of a number or value

: less than

Other than crafty Chicago White Sox lefty Dallas Keuchel, no other starter with a strikeout percentage as low as Wheeler had an ERA south of 4.00 in 2020.

—Joe Giglio

… the wine list could use a few more bargains; I counted only a handful of bottles costing south of $60.

—Scott Mowbray

The North Carolina Tar Heels' star quarterback, who averaged more than 300 yards per game and completed nearly 70 percent of his passes in the regular season, went into the fourth quarter of the 2021 Orange Bowl with only 128 passing yards and a completion percentage south of 60.

—David Wilson

compare north of

Examples of south of in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Now, the home is located near the Plaza and Brookside, and a block south of Loose Park: 75 acres of rolling hills and walking trails with tennis courts, a playground and a rose garden. —Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 9 June 2024

William Land Golf Course is a public nine-hole course that sits on the southeast corner of William Land Regional Park just south of downtown Sacramento. —Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 9 June 2024

The first was magnitude 3.4, striking at 9:56 a.m. Sunday, a couple of blocks south of Huntington Drive and Eastern Avenue. —Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024

The plan called for people driving passenger vehicles into Manhattan below 60th Street – roughly the area south of Central Park – to pay at least $15, with larger vehicles paying more. —Jake Offenhartz and Philip Marcelo, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1986, in the meaning defined above