southwest
noun
the point or direction midway between south and west. SW
southwesternmost
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a word derived from
southwest.
Example Sentences
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The girls moved in with their grandmother, up the road from their wood-paneled house in Cherokee County, N.C., a poor, sprawling region at the southwesternmost edge of the state.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2021
In adjacent Cameron Parish, Louisiana’s southwesternmost point and, like Calcasieu, a hub for oil and gas industries, officials called for a mandatory evacuation of the entire parish beginning at 8 a.m.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2020
But Changsha would serve as a stepping stone to China's southwesternmost provinces, which are the last open doors to the Western World.
From Time Magazine Archive
The new lifestyle appeared first on the north coast of Japan’s southwesternmost island of Kyushu, immediately across Tsushima Strait from South Korea.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
This physiographic region, commonly termed the Mexican Plateau, occupies only a small area of Tamaulipas in its southwesternmost part.
From The Recent Mammals of Tamaulipas, Mexico by Ticul Alvarez
