The compass point midway between north and west; at 315 degrees.
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Examples for "northwest "
Examples for "northwest "
1 Police said the drugs had arrived by sea in the country's northwest .
2 He found some important Late Paleolithic sites, especially in the far northwest .
3 In the northwest in particular this caused quite a wave of morphia-mania.
4 The fighting followed similar ethnic clashes in northwest Turkey a day earlier.
5 The first new site will open in Wembley, northwest London, next week.
1 It headed northwestward toward Armada Field, one hundred and twenty miles away.
2 The wind, this morning, is from the northwestward , rather brisk, but not very strong.
3 The detachment moved northwestward from Sinkat, at an acute angle to its morning's march.
4 One went north up the Don, and one, the largest, went northwestward up the ravine.
5 On Sunday morning, the direction of the wind again changed, and it bore to the northwestward .
1 The tails littered the roads throughout West Auckland, Nor - West Auckland and reportedly as far north as Dargaville on Sunday.
2 The quartermaster called, Nor'-west, sir!
3 Two sail to the nor'-west!
4 If he stand far, on a nor- nor - west course, I think he will infallibly get between us and Admiral Bluewater.
1 Troy feels like Ash definitely wants to be famous, she told NW .
2 Just before NW 10th, we slowed even more, which was very gratifying.
3 NW : That's the biggest thing that you have to sacrifice-yourpersonal life.
4 They questioned Premier Job Mokgoro's authority to deliver the NW SOPA.
5 He was placed on his right side with his head to the NW .
6 The NW group also exhibited a significant difference in the mental health domain.
7 NW Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park from Mark Smiley on Vimeo.
8 To the N. it reaches 38 miles beyond Seal Island and to the NW .
9 The northern portion of this ridge lies 6½ miles NW .
10 This ground is between Grand Manan Bank and Marblehead Bank; its length from NW .
11 By the end of the sixth century they had conquered most of NW Europe.
12 Heinrich told NW magazine that the distance has been very difficult for the couple.
13 Nw she has to go to summer school on Earth.
14 He turned out onto the side street, and then right onto NW 72nd Ave.
15 The rumbling was a result of strike-slip faulting along a NW - SE trending near-vertical fault plane.
16 Follow on the principal road, which goes on beyond Longridge in a N. and NW .
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