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 Burns Parkway extension will run from the southeast corner of the property to the northwest. — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2026

The incident occurred at the Big Dipper at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in Blackpool, a seaside resort town on the northwest coast of the country, on Thursday, July 23, according to Entertainment Weekly, Metro and Manchester Evening News. — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 25 July 2026

The search ended July 6 after the United Cajun Navy announced a body was discovered on the northwest end of the island. — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 25 July 2026

But this year’s surge in measles cases has been driven largely by an outbreak that hit the northwest corner of South Carolina, in an area known as the Upstate. — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 24 July 2026

Rhymes for the northwest

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