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Definition of "northeastwardly" [northeastwardly]

  • Towards the northeast. (adverb)

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Use "northeastwardly" in a sentence
  • "•Diverse, folded, and faulted, partly glaciated ecoregion with northeastwardly trending, forested ridges and agricultural valleys; structurally distinct from the flat-lying rocks of Ecoregion 62."
  • "This stream is about one hundred feet wide, meandering northeastwardly through a beautiful and fertile valley, about ten miles in width."
  • "It is worthy of notice, that our mountains are not solitary and scattered confusedly over the face of the country; but that they commence at about one hundred and fifty miles from the sea-coast, are disposed in ridges, one behind another, running nearly parallel with the sea-coast, though rather approaching it as they advance northeastwardly."
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