How to Use southeastern in a Sentence

southeastern

adjective
Definition of southeasternnext
  • The trail starts on a wide dirt path on the southeastern side of Cowles peak.
    — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The wreck took place just before 5:45 p.m. near a mall in the city of Rochester in the southeastern portion of the state.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 10 July 2024
  • The southeastern front line now sits about 75 miles from Zhovti Vody.
    — Sabra Ayres, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The head pro at a country club in the southeastern U.S. faced a problem.
    — Daniel McGinn, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Rylie is a neighborhood in the southeastern portion of the city.
    — Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Boum grew up in the southeastern province of Tata, in the Lamhamid Oasis.
    — Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022
  • One of the people killed was caught in a landslide in the southeastern Madang province.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The death toll from a Russian missile strike in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro has risen to at least 40.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The roughly 2-mile out-and-back walk follows a paved path along the southeastern side of the Shelter Island.
    — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2024
  • This is the first time the site, in southeastern Ukraine, has lost all power since November last year.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The first crash took place at roughly 10:45 a.m. local time in the southeastern province of Gaziantep.
    — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 21 Aug. 2022
  • The tracking data ended as the flight passed low over the lake’s southeastern shoreline, the report said.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Based in southeastern Florida, the Tequesta lived in the region for some 2,000 years.
    — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
  • This shows that almost all of the U.S. except for the southeastern region, as well as all of Canada and much of Europe, will see the event.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The crash left deep scars across southeastern Wisconsin that still haven’t healed.
    — Todd Richmond, ajc, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Other pivotal races are in the Richmond suburbs and in the more rural southeastern corner of the state.
    — Norman J. Ornstein, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Typically, the tick can be found in the eastern, southeastern and the south-central parts of the United States.
    — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 3 July 2024
  • In addition to the 15 people killed in Uman, a woman and her three-year-old daughter were killed in the southeastern city of Dnipro, the mayor said.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
  • In 2020, he was named party boss of the southeastern province of Fujian, one of Mr. Xi’s power bases.
    — Karen Hao, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Hours after the strike on Odessa, shelling struck a shopping center in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Nikopol, causing a large fire to break out.
    — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
  • In the southeastern city of Mariupol, at the beginning of the war, in 2022, Ukrainians made their last stand in the Azovstal steelworks and held it for more than two months.
    — Maria Varenikova Nicole Tung, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2024
  • At least one person was killed Monday night in a freeway crash that briefly closed down all lanes of state Route 94 in southeastern San Diego.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2024
  • To my mind, this little city in southeastern Sicily is one of the most enchanting in all of Europe.
    — Jeffrey Gettleman, Travel + Leisure, 29 July 2024
  • Nag's Head averages 1 inch of snow per year, as does the southeastern coastal city of Wilmington.
    — Zoe Denenberg, Southern Living, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Tents at a camp set up by the government in the southeastern Turkish city of Kahramanmaras.
    — Mehmet Guzel, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Regionally, the highest prevalence of Alzheimer’s is found in the eastern and southeastern parts of the United States.
    — Zachary Smith, cleveland, 31 July 2023
  • And in a barrage of airstrikes over the weekend, Russia struck Kyiv, the northeastern city of Kharkiv and the southeastern city of Dnipro, where the death toll in one apartment building rose to 44.
    — Lolita C. Baldor, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2023
  • At one point, designs included a roof garden on the southeastern side, a café, and even a nightclub on the bottom floor.
    — Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 8 Aug. 2024
  • These vines are native throughout the southeastern and south-central United States and tolerate a range of soils.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The duo may now be cousins rather college friends, and instead of the far reaches of Mongolia, their destination is a small town in southeastern Poland.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024

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