northwestwards
Americanadverb
adverb
Example Sentences
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He sailed across the bay and out between the Armed Cliffs onto the Gontish Sea, there setting his course northwestwards to pass north of Oranéa, returning as he had come.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
During the night the two scouts had ridden on their swift Meharis northwestwards, to the town of Insalah.
From The Truants by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
The magnificent view up Blackmore Vale and northwestwards toward Yeovil is worth the journey to see.
From Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter by Edric Holmes
He was 'determined,' so writes a chronicler of his voyages, 'to bring true proof of what land and sea might be so far to the northwestwards beyond any that man hath heretofore discovered.'
From Adventurers of the Far North A Chronicle of the Frozen Seas by Stephen Leacock
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