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

Nolo was expected to strengthen further and turn toward the northwest by Sunday night, though the National Hurricane Center said the storm’s center would remain well south-southwest of the Hawaiian Islands. — Eugene Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026

The temporary pond was built on the northwest corner of that site when the Kohl’s store was being built, before Hannon’s time as consulting city engineer for Portage. — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2026

This cool down is thanks to a trough swinging in out of the northwest. — Sean MacAday, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Now based in Milan, Marcon was born in 1985 in Busto Arsizio, a town an hour’s drive to the northwest of the city. — Matthew McLean, Artforum, 22 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for the northwest

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