How to Use southwestern in a Sentence

southwestern

adjective

• 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
• Mount’s Bay is off the southwestern coast of Cornwall and about 300 miles west of London.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• For instance, one of the dots on the map is a private residence in Akure, a mid-sized city in southwestern Nigeria.
  — Jesse Gilbert, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2023
• In Hossegor, a tiny coastal town in southwestern France, quiet mornings invite strolls around Lac d'Hossegor, a reservoir steps from the beach.
  — Sara Lieberman, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2023
• The attack hit a rally in the district of Mastung in the southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
• Like most people who live in this part of southwestern Bangladesh, Akhter’s survival depends on the river.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 7 May 2023
• The skull was placed in the donation box at a Goodwill in Goodyear, Arizona, a southwestern suburb of Phoenix, by an unknown donor.
  — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
• Six months later, another boat washed ashore, this one landing in a blizzard off the southwestern coast of Chile.
  — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• When Ariel and Natasha were born, in southwestern Colorado, in 2010, they were given proper Chinese names.
  — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Flood watches are in place for parts of southwestern Arkansas.
  — Remington Miller, Arkansas Online, 10 May 2023
• Its biggest presence in the state is along the southwestern coast from north of Fort Myers to north of Tampa, where the company has 16 hospitals.
  — Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2023
• Police in Albany, a city in the southwestern part of the state, say two logging trucks were traveling east on E. Oglethorpe Boulevard around 9:30 a.m.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 20 July 2023
• Li, 65, cut his teeth at one of China’s main satellite-launch sites in the southwestern province of Sichuan, rising through the ranks to become its director.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 24 Oct. 2023
• Down a sunlit hallway is the spacious primary bedroom with southwestern views toward the ocean and access to the terrace from a set of doors.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 22 Jan. 2024
• Burhan said his forces controlled all of Sudan's airports except for one in Khartoum and another in the southwestern city of Nyala.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023
• The shootings took place over several city blocks in the southwestern neighborhood of Kingsessing.
  — Time, 4 July 2023
• Miller's district encompasses Casa Grande, Eloy and the southwestern corner of the county.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 13 Feb. 2023
• Translation: the fan base in Monterrey might prefer the southwestern schools.
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 9 June 2023
• Japan also rapidly seeks to build up its military in the southwestern region.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 21 Dec. 2023
• LauncherOne rocket under its left wing, which was separated from the aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean off the southwestern coast of Ireland.
  — Benjamin Katz, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2023
• Taste testers praised the delicious southwestern queso flavor on these chips.
  — Good Housekeeping, 28 June 2023
• Look for brilliant Venus shining in the southwestern sky after sunset all season.
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2023
• Smoke from Canadian wildfires has crossed the Atlantic Ocean and reached southwestern Europe.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 29 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024