the northwest

noun

variants or the Northwest

: the northwestern part of a country or region

A mountain range is in the northwest of the country.

Examples of the northwest in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Commissioners in Box Elder County—a rural county of just under 60,000 residents in the northwest corner of Utah—unanimously voted to advance the 9-gigawatt project last week, even as a crowd of people gathered at the county fairgrounds to protest and demand more information. —Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 11 May 2026

Jason Stepp, the division chief of operations for the Pembroke Pines Fire Rescue department, said about noon that the southwest portion of the fire is under control, while the northwest portion continues to actively burn and spread. —Megan Vaz, Sun Sentinel, 11 May 2026

City officials are considering carving out 5 acres of land, on the northwest corner of the property, for commercial development, Roberts said. —Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 9 May 2026

How To Get There The easiest way to get to Atlantic Beach is to fly into Jacksonville International Airport (JAX), roughly 26 miles to the northwest. —Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2026

Rhymes for the northwest

• acquiesced
• coalesced
• dispossessed
• manifest
• overdressed
• overstressed
• prepossessed
• reassessed
• reinvest
• repossessed
• unaddressed
• uncompressed