How to Use southwestern in a Sentence
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For those in the southwestern part of the state, the snow will start at daybreak.
—Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 8 Mar. 2022
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The southwestern city of Chongqing also eased Covid curbs on the same day.
—Laura He, CNN, 2 Dec. 2022
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The statues have emerged on the river near the southwestern city of Chongqing.
—Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2022
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The bridge, built more than 70 years ago, runs over South Fork Tenmile Creek in the southwestern part of the state.
—Elliott Ramos, NBC News, 17 May 2021
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In the shallow reefs off the coast of southwestern Japan, a small fish scuttles along the rocky seafloor.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 26 June 2025
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The Sun Valley course, on Bethany Lane in the southwestern portion of the county, opened in 1961.
—Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 24 Mar. 2023
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Par Beach is on the southwestern coast of the U.K. and a roughly 150-mile drive from London.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 3 Jan. 2025
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Areas of southwestern Spain will see the threat of heavy rain continue through the end of the week.
—Taylor Ward, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024
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Mount’s Bay is off the southwestern coast of Cornwall and about 300 miles west of London.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
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Again, this will start in the southwestern part of the state and move up into central Wisconsin over the course of the day.
—Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
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But the overlook, at the lake’s southwestern point, is the ideal place to get the wide view of the stadium’s curved form.
—Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2022
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Other flooding stretched from Hoopa in the north down to Shelter Cove in the southwestern tip of the county along the coast.
—Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
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Known as Cane Mill, the plantation spans roughly 4,000 acres in the southwestern part of the state.
—Libertina Brandt, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2021
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Buc-ee's plans to open a third location in the state of Kentucky in the southwestern city of Oak Grove.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 20 Sep. 2024
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This map shows that the highest risk for fires is in the state's central and southwestern counties.
—Beck Andrew Salgado, Journal Sentinel, 4 Sep. 2023
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Some of the most extreme heat will ooze into the south-central and southwestern U.S. over the next few days.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 8 July 2022
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The ruins were found in the Lubuskie Province, which is in southwestern Poland, about 275 miles west of Warsaw.
—Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2024
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For more: The Times explored life in Ruili, a city in southwestern China that has been locked down four times in the past year.
—Jonathan Wolfe, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2021
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There’s a red flag warning in southwestern Utah; northern part of the state could get some rain.
—Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 May 2021
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All the while, climate change is drying out many of the places people are flocking to, like the southwestern US.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 12 Feb. 2024
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The deaths in the spring of 2021, in the southwestern Ontario city of London, shocked the country and drew condemnation.
—Paul Vieira, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2023
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The best chance for clear skies during the eclipse is predicted to be in the southwestern part of the path, near Texas and Mexico.
—Maya Silver, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Oct. 2023
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On the southwestern coast, in Maniitsoq, the sea ice has not been solid enough to walk on since 2018.
—Chris Morris, Fortune Europe, 5 Nov. 2024
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The Kitchen Dwellers’ new album, Wise River, is named for the river that runs about 30 miles through the southwestern region of the state.
—Gary Stoller, Forbes, 6 July 2022
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Cartoon Forum runs in the southwestern city of Toulouse, France, over Sept. 19-22.
—Lise Pedersen, Variety, 19 Sep. 2022
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Born in southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing, Zhang lost his sight at the age of 21 due to glaucoma.
—CNN, 1 June 2021
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Tamil Nadu is a state along India’s southwestern coast and about 1,400 miles south of New Delhi.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2024
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In the southwestern city of Izeh, crowds gathered for the funeral of a nine-year-old boy, Kian Pirfalak.
—Dan De Luce, NBC News, 19 Nov. 2022
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Scotts Head at the southwestern end of the island is equally accessible and offers a sweeping view of the island.
—Sarah Sekula, USA Today, 29 July 2025
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Another storm hit the southwestern metro at about 8:30 p.m. after the first storm had left, prompting warnings in parts of Carver and Scott counties.
—Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 29 July 2025
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