NORTHEAST in a Sentence

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1. I found that the wind was northeast and must have driven me far from the coast from which I had embarked.
2. The sky became clouded, but the air was pure, although chilled by the northeast breeze that was then rising.

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 Meanings and Examples of NORTHEAST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
northeast
 ad.  to, toward, or in the northeast
 a.  situated in or oriented toward the northeast
Classic Sentence:
1  The sky became clouded, but the air was pure, although chilled by the northeast breeze that was then rising.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
2  I found that the wind was northeast and must have driven me far from the coast from which I had embarked.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
3  In the course of many days and weeks sunrise had advanced its quarters from northeast to southeast, sunset had receded from northwest to southwest; but Egdon had hardly heeded the change.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 1 Tidings of the Comer
Example Sentence:
1  The largest city of South Africa, in the northeast part of the country northwest of Durban. Founded in1886 after the discovery of gold nearby, it is a major industrial center. Population, 703,980.
2  But a surreal diplomatic tit-for-tat there speaks volumes about the fast-deteriorating situation in northeast Asia.