northwestward
adverb
Also northwestwardly. toward the northwest.
northwestwardly
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a word derived from
northwestward.
Example Sentences
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It was improbable that the invaders would risk pushing westward until the forts were reduced; and so, when the fugitives came presently to a road which ran northwestwardly, they ventured to follow it.
From The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade by Burton Egbert Stevenson
They pushed through the woods in a northwestwardly direction, and at last reached a place called Venango, not very far from where Pittsburg now stands.
From Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln A Book for Young Americans by James Baldwin
When it was pitch dark the fugitives pushed forward in a northwestwardly direction, until they reached a log cabin, at a distance of about four miles from their point of departure.
From Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War by Edward Robins
All the valley- expanse of rich land is checkered with alternations of meadow and cane and cacao,—except northwestwardly, where woods billow out of sight beyond a curve.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn
In the district extending northwestwardly from Kearney Street and Montgomery Avenue, untouched during the first day, the fire spread freely on the second.
From The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire by Charles Morris
