How to Use northeastern in a Sentence

northeastern

adjective
  • The park sits on Navajo lands in the northeastern part of the state.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Takeuchi reeled in the fish off the coast of Oma, a small town in northeastern Japan.
    Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 7 Jan. 2025
  • This trail runs along the northern edge of the northeastern flank of the fire.
    Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Asya Branch is from the small town of Booneville, in the northeastern corner of the state.
    Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The waters off the northeastern coast of the United States are some of the fastest warming in the world.
    Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Jan. 2022
  • About half of the recipients in Ohio are in the northeastern part of the state.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 11 Jan. 2022
  • The northeastern island is breezy year-round, and those winds can pick up in the winter and spring.
    Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2024
  • In late July, a roseate spoonbill spent some time in the northeastern part of the state near Green Bay.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The hottest conditions will be in the northeastern portion of the state.
    Remington Miller, Arkansas Online, 16 June 2022
  • The edge of the path also clips the northeastern corner of Sudan.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • In Oregon last year, wildlife troopers found eight dead wolves in the northeastern part of the state.
    CBS News, 11 Oct. 2022
  • But in the northeastern state of Ceará, the beaches are just as stunning (without the crazy crowds of Rio)...
    Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes, 8 June 2021
  • Ryan was born and grew up in Niles, a northeastern Ohio town near Cleveland and Youngstown.
    Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The northeastern part of the Pacific Ocean is where many of the storms that impact the US begin.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The district includes all of the city of Dearborn except for a handful of precincts in the northeastern part of the city.
    Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 2 Mar. 2022
  • While poison sumac is mostly found in the northeastern part of the state, the plant loves to live in swamps, bogs and wet areas.
    Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Teixeira was born in 1935, in Irajuba, a small town in the northeastern state of Bahia.
    Alejandro Chacoff, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The shooting unfolded just before 1 a.m. ET on Meade Street in the northeastern part of the city.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 5 July 2023
  • Moscow’s forces opened a new phase of the war this week — a deadly drive along a front from the northeastern city of Kharkiv to the Azov Sea — to do just that.
    Adam Schreck, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Most are in the high rangeland in the northeastern part of the state where the Sierra Nevada mountains meet the Cascades.
    Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Take Pinot Noir again—this time, in Alsace, tucked in the northeastern corner of France.
    Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • He was detained in Metz, a city in northeastern France, on April 24 as part of a police check.
    Michael D. Carroll and Amir Daftari, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The northeastern city lies about 30 miles from the Russian border.
    Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Francine was moving in a northeastern path at 12 miles per hour.
    Kevin Drew, NPR, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The ancient serpent lived in the steamy swamps of the Eocene over 40 million years ago, in what is now northeastern Colombia.
    Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2024
  • No homes were lost on the northeastern side of the fire nearest to the lake, and crews managed to carve more fire line along one edge of a fiery finger.
    Sam Metz, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Soto ended up at the prison in Susanville in the remote northeastern corner of the state.
    Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • In the northeastern part of the lake, what once was lake bed has become an apparent canyon for the River to snake through.
    Will Lanzoni, CNN, 18 June 2021
  • Start out by looking in the very high northeastern sky for the upside-down Big Dipper.
    Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 18 May 2025
  • The crash sent a plume of smoke thousands of feet over the launch site, which sits on a remote stretch of coastline on Australia's northeastern frontier.
    Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 1 Aug. 2025

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