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
• In Oregon last year, wildlife troopers found eight dead wolves in the northeastern part of the state.
  — CBS News, 11 Oct. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Start out by looking in the very high northeastern sky for the upside-down Big Dipper.
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 18 May 2025
• Vadim Shishimarin shot dead a 62-year-old man in a village in northeastern Ukraine.
  — James Marson, WSJ, 13 May 2022
• So is the decision to turn more of the northeastern section of the bay back into wetlands.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2024
• Hervey Bay is along the northeastern coast and about 600 miles northeast of Sydney.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
• Russia controls roughly a fifth of Ukraine, and has intensified its attacks in the country's east, as well as close to the northeastern city of Sumy in recent weeks.
  — Ellie Cook john Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 June 2025
• Earlier this week, a vivid green fireball flared to life in the skies above the northeastern U.S, tracking a northerly path before being overwhelmed by the friction of atmospheric entry.
  — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 27 June 2025