North

//nɔːθ//

"North" in a Sentence (34 examples)

The cold north wind was roaring outside.

It's on the coast about 13 kilometers to the north of its more famous neighbor, Dover.

We went due north.

We turned left at the corner and drove north.

We turned a corner and drove north.

We credit Peary with having discovered the North Pole.

According to the radio, a storm is imminent in the North.

By and by, the bitter north wind began to blow.

Fork-users are mainly in Europe, North America, and Latin America; chopstick-users in eastern Asia and finger-users in Africa, the Middle East, Indonesia, and India.

The bus was heading north.

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Minnesota is in the north of the USA.

Stock prices are heading back towards the north.

[…] and after independence the north clung to sugar production longer than the south, with the result that when the north took […]

If candidates stand on the liturgical south facing the presider and liturgical assistants on the liturgical north, it will present better visual lines for the congregation than if they stand facing east and west with their backs toward the congregation.

Many early Christian basilicas were designed with twin ambos for the proclamation of the epistle (on the liturgical south side) and the Gospel (on the north). The separation of the ambos indicated the distinction that should be accorded the Gospel, which was proclaimed from the north as if evangelization needed to happen to the geographically southern part of the world.

At St. Andrew's, ecclesiastical north, south, east, and west correspond to geographical northeast, southwest, southeast, and northwest.

The new St Mary's Anglican Church, Walkerville, has an attached rectory flanking to the liturgical south and an attached parish hall flanking to the liturgical north, both half-timbered in the Tudor Revival style. [Referring to a church that is oriented SSE, making "south" WSW]

He lived in north Germany.

She entered through the north gate.

The most dangerous ones are those that develop during October and November and that follow a north path affecting the western part of the island.

The north wind was cold.

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Traffic was doing the speed limit on North I-45 one minute and had come to a stand-still the next.

[…] the high church had liked its clergy to preside at the Eucharist in an ad orientem position; the low church advocated what was called the north end position; but the Liturgical Movement asked the priest to take a basilical position, facing liturgical west, and now both Anglican factions could agree on this third position without either of them losing face.

Throughout the book I refer directionally to the altar and chancel of St. Andrew's as situated at ecclesiastical east (to avoid overcomplicating matters), not geographical or magnetic southeast. Thus, […] The north side faces the river (beyond the subdivision behind the church), and the south side, Ashley River Road. […] At St. Andrew's, ecclesiastical north, south, east, and west correspond to geographical northeast, southwest, southeast, and northwest. Unless otherwise indicated, compass directions given in this book are ecclesiastical, not geographical, reference points.

The wedding ended up costing north of $50,000.

The price you're offering had better be north of the highest price this company has ever traded for.

Some of the windscreens we replace cost north of $1800[.]

Switzerland is north of Italy.

We headed north.

When at B you had northed 3.71[…]

The North lost most battles early in the war.

In 1903, I had adventured, for the first time, northwards, and it really was the North, as my objective was the Great North of Scotland Railway.

In economic terms, the North controls four-fifths of the income earned anywhere in the world.

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