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

The military-run government of Myanmar, which neighbors Laos to the northwest and is embroiled in a bloody civil war, has not issued any statement. — ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026

This was because Frost and his peers had lived in Camp 4 while planning and executing the most significant rock climbs in American history, including the first ascents of El Capitan and the northwest face of Half Dome. — Daniel Duane, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2026

White Rose Partners' request to annex 20 acres at the northwest corner of Route 25 and Kenyon Road into South Elgin for a 200,000 square-foot data center was rejected in August by the South Elgin Village Board. — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2026

At almost the same moment, roughly a thousand miles to the northwest, a gold and jewelry house was answering the same question in a very different register. — Li Jun, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026

Rhymes for the northwest

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