How to Use southeast in a Sentence

southeast

1 of 3 adverb
  • It's a few miles southeast of here.
  • Winds will be from the east and southeast around 5 to 10 mph.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The site was in a commercial area, just southeast of the Metro stop in the Brentwood area.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Boaters sailed from the shores of Crissy Field and traveled southeast along the Embarcadero.
    Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The current western end of the trail is in Genoa, a small town about 10 miles southeast of Toledo.
    John Pana, cleveland, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The Dodge was found abandoned in Macon, a city about 80 miles southeast of Atlanta the next day.
    Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2023
  • More oil was retrieved on Sunday about 13 miles southeast of the parish.
    Li Cohen, CBS News, 21 Nov. 2023
  • And as the wedge approached New Orleans this year, the Army Corps reinforced a sill about 20 miles southeast of the city.
    Jacey Fortin, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Miles Creek, which runs southeast of the town, burst its banks and busted through the levees designed to contain it.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The city of Tullahoma is about 75 miles southeast of Nashville.
    Antonio Planas, NBC News, 24 July 2023
  • The pair raised their children in the middle class town of Gilbert, which is located about 25 miles southeast of Phoenix.
    Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 20 Jan. 2024
  • The house is in a village around 4 miles from the English seaside town of Hythe and about 65 miles southeast of central London.
    Ruth Bloomfield, wsj.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Two hours southeast of Nashville, Chattanooga is an under-the-radar gem.
    Karen Cicero, Good Housekeeping, 29 Mar. 2023
  • After the initial search, crews pulled back and called for more resources to look for the aircraft southeast of Pine Valley.
    Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The storm was centered about 120 miles southeast of Cape Fear, North Carolina.
    CBS News, 22 Sep. 2023
  • An eel’s life American eels hatch about 3,700-miles miles southeast of the Hudson in the salty Sargasso Sea.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The resort and Hotel Alyeska are about 40 miles southeast of Anchorage.
    Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Apr. 2023
  • New Iberia is located about 21 miles southeast of Lafayette.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 12 May 2023
  • The festival is 67 miles southeast of downtown Phoenix.
    Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Pine Bluff is roughly 40 miles southeast of Little Rock.
    Christina Maxouris, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The heaviest fighting in recent weeks has been near the city of Bakhmut, which is around 80 miles southeast of Kupiansk.
    Oleksandr Chubko, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Born and raised in Sumter, about 110 miles southeast of Charlotte, Richardson still lives there today, with his wife Betsy.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The massacre took place Thursday night in the village of Dubona, about 37 miles southeast of the Serbian capital Belgrade.
    Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 5 May 2023
  • Sacaton is in Pinal County, about 30 miles southeast of downtown Phoenix.
    Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The bulk of the deaths were concentrated in the mountainous, rural region of Al Haouz just southeast of Marrakech.
    Aaron Boxerman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Some of the Los Angeles gangs that have expanded across the region and country have roots southeast of downtown.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The unlicensed boarding school is about 330 miles southeast of Kansas City.
    Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Gillis was pronounced dead several miles southeast of the home on Paterson Hill Road, where shots were fired.
    Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The city is about 50 miles southeast of the town of Vuhledar, where Russian forces sustained heavy losses just weeks ago and where fierce fighting is still taking place.
    Matthew Mpoke Bigg, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2023
  • His entry took place in an area near Derby Line about 50 miles southeast of Montreal.
    Wilson Ring, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Feb. 2023
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southeast

2 of 3 noun
  • A mountain range is in the southeast of the country.
  • He grew up in the Southeast.
  • Rain is moving into the Southeast.
  • Winds coming out of the North should turn to the southeast.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The heavier rain will be to the south and southeast of the metroplex.
    Kxas-Tv (nbc5), Dallas News, 10 May 2023
  • Light breezes from the northeast shift to the southeast later in the day.
    David Streit, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Highs on Tuesday will range from the mid-40s in the northwest to the lower 50s in the southeast.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Light winds are again mainly from the southeast at 5 to 10 mph.
    Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Cases in the southeast have doubled over the last decade.
    Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Young men and women talk on the phone to their group members in the southeast.
    Fariba Nawa, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The plant is located on the banks of the Dnipro River in the country's southeast.
    Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The city, which lies on the Sea of Azov in Ukraine’s southeast, saw some of the most intense and vicious fighting of the war.
    Rob Picheta, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The encounter occurred in the Madison Range southeast of the town of Ennis.
    Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 14 June 2023
  • The Navy came on board in the 1920s with a base southeast of Imperial Beach.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Highs range from the upper 40s in northwest areas to the mid-50s southeast of the Beltway.
    Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The location is a more than a 25-minute walk southeast of the union on MSU's campus.
    Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Cool with increasing clouds and a few showers to the southeast of DFW.
    Kxas-Tv (nbc5), Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2023
  • There are plenty of them at the lake, but only a few blocks to the southeast the streets are mostly bare.
    Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The boat had changed course, taking its crew to the southeast, where more sea ice floated on the ocean’s surface.
    Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
  • That system was forecast to track to the southeast and over warmer water.
    Leigh Morgan, al, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The first explosion occurred in the middle of the night to the southeast of the Danish island of Bornholm.
    Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Snow there has been so paltry this winter, that even Nashville – 700 miles to the southeast of the Twin Cities – has had more.
    Mary Gilbert, CNN, 11 Feb. 2024
  • This will change the initial rain over to snow from the northwest toward the southeast on Tuesday and Tuesday evening.
    Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Likes grew up in Chandler, Ariz., a medium-size city southeast of Phoenix.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Rain switched to snow from northwest to southeast between about midnight and 2 a.m.
    Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
  • About a third of the state remains abnormally dry, mostly in the north, west and southeast.
    Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The shaky video of the Jan. 7 traffic stop in southeast Memphis sparked a national outcry.
    Libor Janystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2023
  • There are some fields of cumulus clouds building over western parts of the area, as well as near the District and to its southeast.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 25 July 2023
  • Proctorville is about a 150-mile drive southeast of Cincinnati.
    Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The fair, in Dallas' Fair Park southeast of downtown, was scheduled to run through next weekend.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 15 Oct. 2023
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southeast

3 of 3 adjective
  • My office is in the southeast corner of the building.
  • Dutton is the ninth head coach in the past 21 years at the southeast Huntsville school.
    Jimmy Lay, al, 8 Aug. 2023
  • One of those could be a beer garden in the southeast corner of the ground.
    The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The plans show a drive-in screen with 45 stalls for cars at the southeast corner of the property.
    Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 16 Feb. 2023
  • In the wild, the snakes are found in southern and southeast Asia, although they are bought and sold as pets around the world.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN, 24 Dec. 2022
  • His real name is Jose Perez, and he’s based in southeast Asia.
    Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The plant's turbines are laid out to face Pincher Creek’s strong southeast winds.
    IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The almost 15-acre property is at the southeast corner of Preston and the route of the new Outer Loop.
    Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • In the last Cold War, southeast Asia, Asia was an epicenter of this shutdown.
    CBS News, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Light to moderate southeast breezes may chill us a hair.
    A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Viewpoints: There is a viewing platform next to the bridge on Allen Parkway on the southeast corner of the bayou bank.
    Anna Mazurek, Chron, 2 Jan. 2023
  • From grapes grown on the southeast edge of the Pomerol plateau, this wine ages in barrels for 12 months with 25% new oak from a half dozen cooperates.
    Tom Mullen, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
  • The bus went north to Mosul, Erbil, and then across Turkey’s southeast border.
    WIRED, 5 Jan. 2023
  • After both of their bands lost at a 1981 Battle of the Bands in the southeast suburb of Pasadena, Barragán threw down a gauntlet.
    Brad Sanders, Chron, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The southeast Alabama district will stretch westward across the state.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Then the Level 1 severe weather risk could last into the day on Saturday for the southeast corner of the state.
    Leigh Morgan, al, 31 Mar. 2023
  • So DeWine announced the results of a surge of state troopers the day before on Tuesday that had fanned out across that whole southeast portion of the city.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 17 Aug. 2023
  • And one person was killed and three injured — including a 6-year-old child — in a Jan. 30 shooting in southeast Oak Cliff.
    Michael Williams, Dallas News, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The plaza will be located on the southeast corner of Watson Road and Sundance Parkway.
    Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Brown, 58, currently leads the southeast Wisconsin chapter of the Girl Scouts.
    Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Aftershocks have rippled throughout the southeast part of the country and Syria.
    Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Pre-dawn risers get a treat with Venus, Spica and the crescent moon clustered in the southeast sky both today and tomorrow.
    David Streit, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Areas of southeast Kansas and southwest Missouri, including the Ozarks, have the greater chances of seeing the strongest storms.
    Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The location of the robbery appears to have been outside a Jewel-Osco at the southeast corner of 183rd and Kedzie Avenue.
    Mike Nolan, Chicago Tribune, 2 May 2023
  • The sheriff's office said he was taken in without incident in the southeast area of Houston.
    Robinson Perez, ABC News, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Made from leaves of the kratom tree, which is native to southeast Asia, kratom is available in capsule form or powder that can be mixed with tea or taken on its own.
    Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Authorities recovered the body of a 65-year-old man from the debris of a landslide that swept through part of southeast Alaska last month.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Look at the development in southeast Draper, referring to the Point of View apartments.
    Blake Apgar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Newark is about 40 miles southeast of San Francisco, while Hayward is about 30 miles southeast.
    Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Damage to the church included scorch marks on the front door, scorch marks on the exterior of the building, and a broken sign on the southeast corner of the property, the complaint said.
    Antonio Planas, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2023

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