How to Use south of in a Sentence

south of

idiomatic phrase
Definition of south ofnext
  • Each year the who’s-who of the film industry and beyond shows up in the south of Frances dressed to the nines.
    — Brittany Natale, Redbook, 26 May 2023
  • San Leone is on the island of Sicily and about 320 miles south of Rome.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The home is in Jonesboro, about 15 miles south of Atlanta.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 25 July 2024
  • Streets south of Congress and east of Woodward will be closed.
    — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 22 June 2023
  • If Nurse doesn't come south of the border, Atkinson could become the top choice.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Setting off from the south of Gaza, the convoy travelled up Al Rashid Road, which follows the coastal edge of the strip.
    — Katie Polglase, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The orange lights blinking in the far ridgeline, south of them, are not in Israel.
    — Dan Senor, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The team set sail from the island of Kiribati, about 1,200 miles south of Hawaii, in September.
    — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Jokić joined a team in Novi Sad, a little south of Sombor.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • In the south of the country, rain was so rare that the region had its driest monsoon season since 1901, the IMD said.
    — Sibi Arasu, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The city is located 20 miles south of Boston, and Witt made trips to Fenway as a kid.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 13 July 2024
  • The strongest storms are expected to be east and south of Kansas City.
    — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 18 Apr. 2024
  • What is still challenging is the supply of medicine and material, even in the south of Gaza.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Expand All Twenty miles south of Boise, crews at the city compost farm are bracing for the busy season.
    — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Their booth is south of Dorton Arena near the main midway entrance.
    — Andrea Weigl, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The northern lights are best seen in an area called the auroral oval, or roughly 65–70 degrees north or south of the equator.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The threat of severe weather is more likely south of I-70 in the southern portions of the Kansas City forecast area.
    — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2024
  • Pine Bluff is located about 40 miles south of Little Rock.
    — Gina Martinez, CBS News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Everything else is ready, done and in place to charge vehicles driving south of 60th St. a fee ($15 during the day).
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 26 July 2024
  • The area is about three blocks south of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff campus.
    — The Pine Bluff Commercial, Arkansas Online, 9 June 2023
  • Just south of Baghdad, the urban sprawl gives way to glimpses of green, with lush date palm groves bordering the Euphrates River.
    — Alissa J. Rubin Emily Garthwaite, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Drilling south of Martha's Vineyard next year will tell us much more about how stores of fresh water under land and sea might connect.
    — Rob L. Evans, Scientific American, 15 June 2023
  • A week after the sinking, Carman was found by a passing freighter floating in a life raft 115 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
  • A number of dead and injured people were seen arriving at hospitals in the center and south of the strip.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The brothers lived with their mother in a two-bedroom apartment in Carbondale, about 14 miles south of the amusement park.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The parish is in western Louisiana about 120 miles south of Shreveport.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 15 May 2024
  • Just south of DeCorte’s home are two of the state’s largest homesteads, land granted to residents with at least 50 percent Hawaiian blood.
    — Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Hampstead is about 17 miles northeast of Wilmington and about 40 miles south of Camp Lejeune.
    — Rebekah Riess, CNN, 26 July 2023
  • Areas to the east and south of the Triangle could see even more, including up to 16 inches in the Wilmington area, according to a Monday night forecast.
    — Zachery Eanes, Axios, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Christine is a small community about 45 miles south of San Antonio.
    — Susan Baek, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2024

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