How to Use southwest in a Sentence

southwest

1 of 3 adverb
Definition of southwestnext
  • It's about 80 miles southwest of here.
  • The boat foundered about 50 miles southwest of Pylos, a city in southern Greece.
    — Cora Engelbrecht, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
  • The mine was in Yunnan Province, 1,200 miles southwest of Wuhan.
    — David Quammen, New York Times, 25 July 2023
  • The suspect, a single mother, lives about 100 miles southwest of the jail in Knoxville, records show.
    — Mark Price The Charlotte Observer (tns), al, 28 July 2023
  • The temblor was centered about 34 miles southwest of Oceanside, about a half-mile deep in the ocean floor.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Wolf Creek Pass is about 140 miles southwest of Colorado Springs.
    — Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The earthquake hit offshore about 55 miles southwest from Sand Point, Alaska, at a depth of 13 mi.
    — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 16 July 2023
  • Light south winds becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning.
    — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Gillis was from Schuylerville, N.Y., about 20 miles southwest of where she and her friends were located when they were shot at.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
  • From the purple mountain majesties of Colorado, the river slinks southwest for some 1,450 miles toward the teal-toned Sea of Cortez.
    — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Allston neighborhood to make their way to Medfield, about 20 miles southwest of the city.
    — Dick Lehr, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The other, which was more open after the Ukrainian counterattack, leads southwest to the town of Ivanivske.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2023
  • My drive to the main campus, which is about two hours southwest of Detroit, led me past farms and cow pastures, and along an unpaved road.
    — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Robinson is a native of Ada, about 63 miles southwest of Norman.
    — Tim Willert, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Helle said the damage was concentrated near the town of Bryant, about 200 miles southwest of Chicago.
    — CBS News, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Light west wind becoming southwest at 6 to 11 mph in the afternoon.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Granbury Location: 40 miles southwest from Fort Worth, about an hour drive.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Franklin Township is about 30 miles southwest of Newark, New Jersey.
    — Sara Smart, CNN, 21 July 2023
  • The first reports of girls’ falling sick emerged three months ago in the religious city of Qom, which is about 80 miles southwest of the capital, Tehran.
    — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Fort Campbell is more than 500 miles southwest of Mason.
    — Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 15 Feb. 2024
  • East Point is about 10 miles southwest of downtown Atlanta.
    — Tanasia Kenney The Charlotte Observer (tns), al, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The epicenter of the 6.8-magnitude earthquake was not far from the village that lies about two hours southwest of Marrakech.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Police have been searching for a suspect in the deaths of the family of four that rattled the suburb about 35 miles southwest of Chicago.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Air traffic at the facility about 9 miles southwest of Moscow was halted after a drone was shot down in the airspace around the city.
    — Susan Miller, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Norwood is about 300 miles southwest of Colorado Springs.
    — Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Grand Prairie is around 40 miles southwest of McKinney.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The canal snakes through Arizona, starting at Lake Havasu and ending 336 miles away, southwest of Tucson.
    — Kyle Paoletta, The New Republic, 30 Oct. 2023
  • North northeast wind will run from 7 to 16 mph, becoming south southwest in the afternoon.
    — Chris Sims, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Salazar said a man and a woman in their 50s were found dead inside their residence in San Antonio, about 80 miles southwest of Austin.
    — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The path of totality will travel southwest to northeast across thirteen U.S. states in about an hour and ten minutes.
    — Marisa Garcia, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
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southwest

2 of 3 noun
  • A mountain range is in the southwest of the country.
  • These plants grow in the Southwest.
  • The borders of the homeland of the Jews are the Euphrates in the east and the Nile in the southwest.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Winds are a bit gusty, again, but this time from the southwest.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Breezes are from the southwest at 10 to 20 mph with some higher gusts.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
  • One treetop was pulled back toward the home to the southwest.
    — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The fire is near Godley, a small town southwest of Fort Worth.
    — Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Biden’s stop in Utah is part of a three-state tour of the American southwest, the White House said.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 July 2023
  • This is more of a factor in arid or dusty areas such as the southwest.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The area where the wreck took place is about 20 mile southwest of downtown Cleveland.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Winds over the Bay Area will shift and begin to blow from the southwest toward the Peninsula.
    — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Winds are from the southwest at 10 to 15 mph, except gustier around any storms.
    — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Off in the southwest, the last colors of sunset lit up the rim of the sky, as a crescent Moon and two planets lined up above.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Winds are from the southwest at 5 to 10 mph, but higher in thunderstorms.
    — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The clockwise flow of air around the high is bringing in in air from the southwest into Alabama.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The west, southwest and south-central regions saw 20% more.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Light southwest wind increasing to 5-10 mph in the morning.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 30 June 2023
  • But southwest of Lake Okeechobee, lows should be near 60.
    — Omar Rodríguez Ortiz, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2024
  • It's located in the southwest, near the town of Newcastle.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 31 July 2023
  • Certain was taken the first night and held at the Hanoi Hilton for a month, then moved to another complex southwest of the city.
    — Jeremy Redmon, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
  • There should be enough sun breaking through to push highs into at least the low-to-mid 80s, maybe a bit higher as winds from the southwest are gusty.
    — David Streit, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2023
  • But once the sun goes down, Saturn will appear close to the horizon and toward the southwest, according to Space.com.
    — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Mike Williams, a birder from Sugar Land, Texas, hopped in his car and made the roughly three-hour drive southwest to see the cattle tyrant.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The trip, which will also take them to Bordeaux in the southwest of the country, had originally been planned for March.
    — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The path of totality − a 124-mile wide band − will cross Ohio from southwest to northeast.
    — Laura A. Bischoff, The Enquirer, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Temperatures already on the cool side, with highs in the low 60s, will feel even cooler as winds gust from the southwest to around 30 mph.
    — Molly Robey, Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Rain is expected to move in to the area Thursday morning from the southwest and exiting to the northeast this evening.
    — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The star shape formed because the wind around the dune is blowing in opposite directions—some from the southwest and some from the northeast.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
  • By Thursday, light winds from the south and southwest and partly to mostly sunny skies boost highs to 50 to 55 degrees.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The 2024 Great American solar eclipse is coming Monday as the moon blocks the sun's light from the southwest to northeast corners of the country.
    — Jordyn Noennig, Journal Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2024
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southwest

3 of 3 adjective
  • In the southwest corner of the unit, a girl had turned into a horse.
    — Mona Simpson, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The eight-acre campus sits on the southwest corner of the 56-acre Mission San Luis Rey.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Narasimhan is from Pune, a large city in southwest India.
    — Byjane Thier, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Sunny skies and southwest winds will warm things up Thursday, with highs in the 70s.
    — David Montesino, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Feb. 2024
  • On the southwest edge of town, the power plant and mine punctuate the grasslands where deer and elk roam.
    — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
  • And flash floods have torn through southwest China in recent weeks, killing at least 15 people in the city of Chongqing.
    — Jake Kwon, CNN, 15 July 2023
  • Yuma, a city tucked away in the southwest corner of Arizona, is a sun lover's paradise.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Most of these mountain lions are found northeast of the state and the southwest Cascade Mountains.
    — Zach Urness, USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
  • Feathers and hints of southwest style also are starting to emerge.
    — Charlotte Observer, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The project includes a southwest end-around taxiway to reduce the need for aircraft to cross runways 36L and 36R at the airport.
    — Alexandra Skores, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Immokalee is a southwest Florida farming town in the heart of the state's tomato-growing area.
    — Mike Schneider, ajc, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The complex has 205 apartments on the southwest corner of Franklin and Orchard streets, across from a Fred Meyer store.
    — Rachel Spacek, Idaho Statesman, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The new area code will cover southwest and south central Wisconsin, the PSC said.
    — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The windy weekend is the result of a cold front passing through southwest and central Arizona.
    — Sydney Carruth, The Arizona Republic, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The exit door plug landed in the southwest Portland backyard of high school physics teacher Bob Sauer.
    — Terry Spencer, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024
  • On one Wednesday in August, four officers stood on the southwest corner of the street, two of them looking at their phones.
    — Wesley Parnell, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Farmakonisi is located about 12 miles off the coast of Didim, a small coastal town in southwest Turkey.
    — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Visitors can walk right up to the traffic circle at the southwest corner of Central Park.
    — Kayla Keegan, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2024
  • The southwest spire and the bell tower will follow as the entire church becomes surrounded in wrapping for 14 months.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 May 2023
  • In fact, the Naples Pier is one of the most iconic hotspots on the southwest coast where crowds gather nightly to watch spectacular sunsets.
    — Kara Franker, Southern Living, 14 Nov. 2023
  • According to EarthSky, the duo will hang out in the southwest sky before setting around midnight.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Friday Your destination is Alton, in the southwest corner of the state near St. Louis.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The renderings released by Gensler on Feb. 6 show home plate in the southwest corner of the site, with fans looking toward the Chicago skyline.
    — Phil Rogers, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • In a drab gray warehouse next to a drab gray wall on the southwest side Koda Witsken arms are moving furiously.
    — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The southwest corner of the state will see snow earlier, starting around 6 p.m. The storm is expected to move west to east across southern New England.
    — Amanda Kaufman, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2023
  • And at the southwest border, a record 2.2 million migrants were processed by the U.S. Border Patrol last fiscal year.
    — Dallas News, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The boat was targeting albacore by trolling a plastic squid spread 42 miles off the coast of southwest Washington.
    — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Monday night: There will be showers and possibly a thunderstorm, with a low around 61 and southwest wind around 11 mph.
    — The Courier-Journal, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Both Monday and Tuesday will be sunny with a high of around 89 degrees, with calm breezes heading in the south or southwest direction.
    — Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 24 July 2023
  • The same man was found to have given five middle-aged white women in southwest Michigan ocular syphilis.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024

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