How to Use southern in a Sentence

southern

adjective
Definition of southernnext
  • Yemen, where the Houthis are based, is at the southern end of the Red Sea.
    — Morgan Fischer, The Arizona Republic, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The comet will appear in the southern part of Aries at the start of the month, then move toward Taurus.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Jan. 2024
  • The agency said in the U.S., most infections have been linked to swimming in southern states.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Surrounded by muck and covered in grime, a large object sat on the seafloor off the southern coast of Italy.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
  • On the southern side of the storm system, heavy rain and severe thunderstorms will move across parts of the Southeast.
    — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The eastern front line, near the besieged city of Bakhmut, is less mined than the wide fields of the southern Zaporizhzhia region.
    — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Stars on Mars was filmed in Coober Pedy, an opal-mining town in southern Australia.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 15 May 2023
  • Toro Muerto is in the mountains of southern Peru along the coast of the Pacific Ocean.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Biden sent 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border.
    — Arcelia Martin, Dallas News, 16 May 2023
  • Many serve pancakes and omelets, but not southern favorites.
    — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Jan. 2024
  • By Thursday, this storm will bring rain to northern Arizona and rain for southern.
    — Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Abu Issa and her family came here from the southern city of Rafah in mid-May, nearly three weeks ago.
    — Anas Baba, NPR, 4 June 2024
  • Other spots in Utah, such as the Straight Cliffs in the southern part of the state, may contain the relevant fossils to answer those questions.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 June 2023
  • Foley is in southern Alabama, about 10 miles north of Gulf Shores.
    — Mike Stunson, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2024
  • In a river of southern China, a 2-foot-long predator noticed some caged fish.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 11 July 2024
  • In the game’s fiction, a massive sandstorm rolled in, completely changing the southern section of the map.
    — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 24 May 2024
  • Advertisement Worse is the Khumbu Icefall, a glacier just above the southern base camp.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2024
  • About five seconds of slight shaking was felt in Cape Cod, Mass., and a few people reported it in southern Maine.
    — Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Just before sunset, a parking lot near the Rafah border crossing on the Gaza Strip’s southern border was hit by a blast.
    — Stephen Kalin, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2023
  • In the wake of the Houthi attacks, many of the massive ships that carry some 12 percent of all world trade through the Suez Canal have changed course, set to travel the long way around southern Africa instead.
    — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2023
  • Neighborhoods that were hardest hit are in council Districts 4 and 8 in the southern part of the city, said city spokesperson Nicole Darling.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Xi brought a lot of economic carrots with him for his first trip to China’s southern neighbor since 2017.
    — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Another challenge is the climate in southern New Jersey, which tends to be warmer than that of New England.
    — Wayne Parry, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
  • While the stage is set for critical fire weather in the central and southern High Plains, a winter storm will bring heavy snow over parts of the Central Rockies.
    — Taylor Ward, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
  • The southern states are also engines of economic growth and end up subsidizing the poorer states of the north.
    — Sumit Ganguly, The Conversation, 4 June 2024
  • In a leveled neighborhood in the city of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, a group of men digging through the rubble found first one hand, then another.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The weather service says the heaviest surf will occur in southern San Diego County.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The southern Sierra, which feeds the rivers that flow to the Tulare Lake basin, has nearly three times its average snowpack, likely the most in a century.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Israel has been public with it's plan to conduct an assault on the city of Rafah, in southern Gaza, absent a ceasefire agreement with Hamas.
    — Greg Dixon, NPR, 30 Apr. 2024
  • In central and southern Mexico, a blue corn tortilla filled with any guisado, with or without cheese.
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024

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