How to Use south of in a Sentence

south of

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  • This fire is four miles south of Seiad.
    — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Much of this, south of the Litani, had been cleared out.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2026
  • There is no law south of the Neponset.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
  • One of those top prospects plays just south of Salt Lake.
    — Mark Anderson, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026
  • There aren’t as many options up there as there are south of the river.
    — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Sires sounded just south of the Sea of Galilee.
    — Bassem Mroue, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Jupiter will also be high in the sky, while Uranus will be south of it.
    — Eric Lagatta, AZCentral.com, 27 Feb. 2026
  • It is based in the south of Israel not far away from Gaza.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Plans to expand streetcar routes both north and south of downtown have been on hold for years.
    — Vanessa Swales, jsonline.com, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Last week, a bowhunter was injured when he was charged by a grizzly bear south of Choteau.
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 23 Sep. 2026
  • The location is just south of downtown.
    — Rosana Hughes, AJC.com, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The location of the car was about seven miles south of where the crash happened.
    — Nathaniel Percy, Oc Register, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Campbell then ran off in an alley just south of the Damen station.
    — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Those south of the highway could continue to see a major heat risk.
    — Finch Walker, USA Today, 15 July 2026
  • Northstar is on the north side of the lake, south of Truckee.
    — Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The storms, however, are expected to stay west and south of the metro.
    — Kansas City Star, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The best rain chances will be along and south of Interstate 70.
    — Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025
  • All other species were found south of the river, according to the study.
    — Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
  • There are four large general parking lots south of the venue’s main entrance.
    — Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Higher totals are likely in the south of the metro, with lower amounts in the north.
    — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The school is about 40 miles south of downtown Nashville.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • It is located about 15 miles south of the border.
    — Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Serving up family recipes from south of the border.
    — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Lochiel is a remote former border town two hours south of Tucson.
    — Michael Loria, USA Today, 29 July 2026
  • The property is about one mile south of Mar-a-Largo Club.
    — Tj MacIas, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Qom is a Shiite seminary city just south of Tehran.
    — Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Now, more and more Americans are eyeing up new lives south of the equator.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 2 July 2026
  • By early next week, the storm is expected to move near or just south of Jamaica.
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Israel first called on dozens of villages south of the Litani River to flee north.
    — ABC News, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Model data now shows the track well south of our area, down in parts of West Virginia.
    — Ron Smiley, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026

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