northward
adverb
Also northwards, northwardly. toward the north.
northwardly
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a word derived from
northward.
Example Sentences
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From this another arch opened in a northwardly direction.
From Recollections of Old Liverpool by A Nonagenarian
That expenditure flows in an opposite direction—it flows northwardly, in one uniform, uninterrupted, and perennial stream.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Raphael Semmes
The elevation of temperature does not progress northwardly, a wave of heat accompanying the sun, but is a magneto-electric change, commencing about the same time over the whole country, and indeed over the hemisphere.
From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Thomas Belden Butler
Just before this intelligence arrived, the United States steam frigate "Franklin," forty-three guns, carrying the flag of Vice-Admiral Stephen C. Rowan, left Hampton Roads on a cruise, northwardly.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 by Henry James
We unsaddle and wait till three in the afternoon, when again "the General" sounds, and we march northwardly over the ridges towards the thick smoke.
From Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life by Charles King
