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Example sentences for "southeast"

Lexicographically close words:
souterrain; souters; south; southbound; southe; southeaster; southeasterly; southeastern; southeastward; southerly
  1. Travelers appear to have ascended it mostly at the southeast corner where there are some hundreds of names of persons who have visited it, both male and female, painted on the projecting surfaces with black, red, and some with yellow paint.

  2. The Red Buttes are nearly opposite to this place towards the southeast and appear to be two high bluffs of red earth or sand, presenting a very triangular, yet interesting appearance.

  3. This country lies southeast of the salt lake.

  4. The ridge over which we passed was a half a mile over from the southeast to the northwest foot.

  5. There is a good country south of the Utah Lake or southeast of the great basin.

  6. It lies on the north bank of the river in this shape: The extreme southeast corner reaches to within about three rods of the river and runs in a direction northwest while the river at this place runs nearly a west course.

  7. About seven o'clock it commenced raining again from the southeast and rained heavily, consequently the brethren quit ferrying, leaving three companies of about fifteen wagons on the other side.

  8. The wind has blown from the southeast all day until lately, when a dead calm has succeeded.

  9. From southeast to southwest you can see the course of the Loop Fork for a number of miles.

  10. He sprang on his own horse and drove the other one before him towards the mountains on the southeast as hard as he could ride.

  11. We have had a strong southeast wind through the night but the morning is calm and pleasant.

  12. We sent those of our company about a mile southeast and had a guard over them through the night.

  13. Sunday, May 3 The morning fair, windy and cloudy, southeast wind.

  14. North of the California mountains there is walnut, oak, ash, hickory, and various kinds of good timber on and in the neighborhood of the mountains and streams southeast of the great basin.

  15. And on that train trip from Bangkok to Changmai to acquire those Nawin Biadklang paintingsN" "Not only those but others in Southeast Asia.

  16. She had opened a store that sold landscape paintings and posters from various sources, picture frames, and in her partitioned backroom that she called her gallery, paintings that she picked up from recent trips to Southeast Asia.

  17. British front at the southeast of St. Eloi.

  18. We have mentioned that German troops were moving on Senkova, southeast of Gorlice, by night.

  19. The attack on L'Epinette, a hamlet southeast of Armentières, was much more successful on the same day.

  20. About March 16 the opposing forces came again into touch southeast of Stanislawow on the road to Ottynia, but nothing of importance appears to have happened.

  21. Particularly fierce encounters took place near Odrzykon and Korczina, ten to fourteen miles southeast of Frysztak.

  22. These men, for the most part, were from the Twenty-eighth Division, and had been east of Zonnebeke to the southeast corner of Polygon Wood.

  23. Meanwhile the German troops about Ciezkovice and Senkova--respectively northwest and southeast of Gorlice--were moving by night nearer to the battle line.

  24. Beyond local skirmishes and maneuvering for positions, nothing of importance happened from March 4 till the 15th, when the Russians attacked the main Austrian forces southeast of Czernowitz.

  25. Ivanoff had concentrated his strongest forces on the line between Sieniava, north of Przevorsk, and Sambor, thirty miles southeast of Przemysl.

  26. The troops moving southeast from Pultusk now approached the Bug, getting toward the rear of Novo Georgievsk and Warsaw, and threatening to close the Russians line of escape, the Warsaw-Bielostok railway.

  27. Central European time, afternoon, on the southeast coast of Ireland, in fine, clear weather.

  28. Again that unfortunate general was roughly handled--another of his divisions was annihilated southeast of Lemberg in a rear-guard action.

  29. She found out a match, immediately lighting two jets of a center-chandelier, turning them down from singing, drawing the shades of the two front and the southeast windows, stooping over the upholstered chair to imprint a light kiss.

  30. The French imagined the English army would have crossed the carrying place from Fort Nicholson at G [B in southeast corner?

  31. These are somewhat uneasy times, especially in the Deccan, southeast of here.

  32. As they reached the end, they emerged into another large court, comprising the southeast corner of the fort.

  33. I remembered that when a lad I heard a captain often say in meeting that in answer to a prayer of his own the wind changed from southeast to northwest, entirely to his satisfaction.

  34. March 31 the fresh southeast wind had come to stay.

  35. Along the equatorial limit of the southeast trade winds the air was heavily charged with electricity, and there was much thunder and lightning.

  36. I had been steering southeast by south, but the wind hauling forward a bit, she dropped into a smooth lane, heading southeast, and making about eight knots, her very best work.

  37. The southeast trade-winds, met, rather light, in about 4 degrees N.

  38. However, all the roads lead toward the southeast corner, where the old grade began that went up above the arches, mentioned above, to a middle gate of the city.

  39. That is, the most ancient piece of road we have leads up to the southeast corner of the town, but the oldest tombs point to a road the direction of which was toward the southwest corner.

  40. Mounting an ice-covered hillock, we saw, two miles to the southeast in a valley where grass and moss were visible, half a dozen musk oxen, doubtless the entire herd.

  41. The southwest in the interior world, it should be stated, corresponds to the southeast on the outer earth.

  42. Willow (now Cedar) Creek rises in Garfield County and flows southeast to the Loup; Fullerton, seat of Nance County, is at its mouth.

  43. It rises in Custer County, flows southeast through Dawson and western Buffalo counties, then turns and flows east by northeast to central Hall County, where it empties into the channel of the Platte, which runs north of Grand Island.

  44. Pond Fort was a short distance southeast of the site of Wentzville.

  45. He afterwards moved to the southeast corner of Sutter and Montgomery streets and continued there until 1869 when he was elected city and county tax collector.

  46. On the east side at the southeast corner of Washington, stood the J.

  47. On the southeast corner of Mason stood the home of J.

  48. It was on the south side of the building, and in the southeast corner.

  49. Your house would be located at the southeast corner of the intersection, is that where it is, or not?

  50. The cartridges were on the southeast corner.

  51. All right, he was walking with his clipboard from that southeast corner?

  52. Now the first time when you left the sixth floor with these other men to take the two elevators down, did you at any time look over to the southeast corner of the sixth floor?

  53. A witness says he saw 'em pull the weapon from the window off the second floor on the southeast corner of the Depository Building.

  54. They were on the third--yeah, it would be the third window from the southeast corner.

  55. The southeast corner of the intersection.

  56. The southeast corner window and you're looking south, the shells would be on your right and back away from the window, as I recall, about a foot.

  57. Did you see anything else in the southeast corner?

  58. Do you remember how high the books were by the southeast corner on the sixth floor?

  59. The northwest corner of the courthouse--it's the southeast corner of the intersection?

  60. Did you look over in the southeast corner before as you were getting off the elevator?

  61. No; it was in the corner of the building, the southeast corner.

  62. Now, did you notice whether or not there were any cartons stacked up around the southeast corner of that sixth floor?

  63. Our line turns to the southeast opposite Montauban, and curves in towards the ridge so as to run just outside Maricourt, along the border of a little wood to the east of the houses.

  64. A quarter of a mile to the southeast of the Y Ravine the line comes within sight of the great gap which cuts the battlefield in two.

  65. Between the islands, and as far as we could perceive southeast and east, the sea was covered by perfectly flat fjord-ice, but no land was to be discerned in that direction.

  66. By degrees the wind from the southeast increased, and while we were having dinner it veered round to an easterly direction and became rather strong.

  67. From the crow's-nest I saw on the southeast a large channel extending southward as far as I could see, and the channel abaft us extended to the northeast as far as my sight could reach.

  68. The snow was in first-rate condition after the southeast wind, which continued blowing till late in the day.

  69. The next day began with half a gale from the southeast and rain; but at 6 o'clock the wind moderated and veered to the south, and at 8 o'clock the ice around the lane began to slacken a good deal.

  70. Yesterday the southeast wind set in; it has increased to-day and become rather strong, to judge by the whistling round the hummocks outside.

  71. Three miles southeast of Charlottesville is Monticello, the seat of Thomas Jefferson.

  72. In the county of Monroe, in one of the most beautiful valleys by nature in Western Virginia, seventeen miles southeast of the White Sulphur, are the Sweet Springs.

  73. Southeast from Pau lies our third landmark of the past,--Coarraze.

  74. The Route Thermale goes on up the latter, passing through southeast to Luz, and then stretching eastward again to Barèges and over successive cols to Bigorre and Luchon.

  75. There it divides, and taking the right-hand branch, the breack strikes at once into the narrow ascending valley which leads southeast to Eaux Chaudes.

  76. San Juan county is a group of islands lying between the waters of the Straits of Fuca and the Gulf of Georgia, off the southeast shore of Vancouver island.

  77. The coal measures underlie probably the great bulk of the foothills on both sides of the Cascades and some of the Olympics, the Blue mountains of the southeast and some of the low mountains in the northeastern part of the state.

  78. View looking southeast across the heavily forested ranges of the Cascades to the deep canyons below Ladd and Sandy glaciers.

  79. Hicks 90 Foraging in the Snow Crissie Cameron 90 *Steel's Cliff, southeast side of Mount Hood G.

  80. Illustration: Mount Adams from one of the many lakes on its southeast slope.

  81. View shows the remarkable cleft or canyon on the southeast face of the peak.

  82. The same is true of the canyon lying below the White River glacier, on the southeast slope.

  83. Glenwood is nearer to the famous Hellroaring Canyon and the glaciers of the southeast side.

  84. The main attack was to be further supported by a bomb-vessel, the Thunder, accompanied by the armed transport Friendship, which were to take station to the southeast of the east bastion of the engaged front of the fort.

  85. It is possible there was no fachada to the chapel at the southwest end, for a well-built elliptical arched doorway, on the southeast side, most probably was the main entrance.

  86. There is a buttress of burnt brick to the southeast of the church, which appears as if it might have been an addition after the earthquake.

  87. But Mission San José is a small settlement, nearly twenty miles east and north, in the foothills overlooking the southeast end of San Francisco Bay.

  88. While nearing the Wanderer rapidly they noticed a faint, dark line approaching up from the southeast along the line of the coast.

  89. But the schooner bore away to the southeast and no close view was obtained.

  90. On the right the low grounds were terminated at the distance of five miles by a range of high hills covered with tall timber, and running southeast and northwest.

  91. This mountain is situated to the southeast of Manila one hundred and fifty miles, and is said to be a perfect cone, with a crater at its apex.


  92. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "southeast" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arctic; boreal; degree; east; easterly; north; northeast; northerly; northern; northward; northwest; northwesterly; south; southeast; southerly; southern; southward; southwest; sunrise; sunset; west; westerly; western; westward