Examples of the Pacific Northwest in a Sentence
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The next system was migrating down from the Pacific Northwest and by Saturday was likely to have brought down the thermometer at least 10-15 degrees from where the the mercury camped on Thursday.
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Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024
In 1992, fashion designer Marc Jacobs released a collection for Perry Ellis paying homage to the alternative rock movement of the Pacific Northwest.
—Kai McNamee, NPR, 11 Apr. 2024
Incident drifts into incident as the family ambles along over the hills and past the trees of the Pacific Northwest, sometimes veering into slapstick — watch out for that turtle! — sometimes becoming highly scatological, and sometimes detouring into violent, gory tragedy.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2024
Museum patrons explore the AMNH’s Northwest Coast Hall, a series of exhibits on the cultures and artifacts of the Pacific Northwest Coast.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
More snow is on the way to California and the Pacific Northwest, but the boys of summer aren’t going to wait any longer.
—Chris Morris, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2024
One example in the Pacific Northwest was that straightening a river caused the water to warm up and no longer be good habitat for salmon, and native communities downstream that were dependent on salmon were suffering pretty badly because of that.
—The Arizona Republic, 27 Mar. 2024
Ebb is currently testing a 100-tonne system at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in nearby Sequim, while rival startups Captura and Equatic have similarly sized electrochemical plants at the Port of Los Angeles in California.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Mar. 2024
And up in the Pacific Northwest, Washington state is spending billions of dollars attempting to restore rivers and streams for salmon passage beneath roads and bridges.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024
In 1992, fashion designer Marc Jacobs released a collection for Perry Ellis paying homage to the alternative rock movement of the Pacific Northwest.
—Kai McNamee, NPR, 11 Apr. 2024
Incident drifts into incident as the family ambles along over the hills and past the trees of the Pacific Northwest, sometimes veering into slapstick — watch out for that turtle! — sometimes becoming highly scatological, and sometimes detouring into violent, gory tragedy.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2024
Museum patrons explore the AMNH’s Northwest Coast Hall, a series of exhibits on the cultures and artifacts of the Pacific Northwest Coast.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
More snow is on the way to California and the Pacific Northwest, but the boys of summer aren’t going to wait any longer.
—Chris Morris, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2024
One example in the Pacific Northwest was that straightening a river caused the water to warm up and no longer be good habitat for salmon, and native communities downstream that were dependent on salmon were suffering pretty badly because of that.
—The Arizona Republic, 27 Mar. 2024
Ebb is currently testing a 100-tonne system at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in nearby Sequim, while rival startups Captura and Equatic have similarly sized electrochemical plants at the Port of Los Angeles in California.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Mar. 2024
And up in the Pacific Northwest, Washington state is spending billions of dollars attempting to restore rivers and streams for salmon passage beneath roads and bridges.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
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“The Pacific Northwest.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Pacific%20Northwest. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.
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