How to Use southeastern in a Sentence

southeastern

adjective
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  • 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 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Born in Fujian province in southeastern China, Chen dropped out of high school and began working in restaurants at the age of 15.
    — Craig Silverman, ProPublica, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The official said the agency is spread thin and not equipped to handle the surge in migrants crossing the border in southeastern San Diego County.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Hahn represents the county’s 4th District, which spans more than 400 square miles in the southern and southeastern portions of the county.
    — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2023
  • In 2009, red swamp crayfish were found at two sites in southeastern Wisconsin.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Crosby is the subject of a recall campaign in the southeastern Arizona county.
    — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Areas of rain are forecast to move through southeastern Mass overnight with some showers elsewhere.
    — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Kalmar is in southeastern Sweden, about 260 miles southwest of Stockholm.
    — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The state is littered with cameras displaying live feeds from the southeastern corner to the northwest tip of the Upper Peninsula.
    — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Access to the eastern port of Castellon and the southeastern Jerez airport were temporarily cut off.
    — Ciarán Giles and Raf Casert, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2024
  • But there’s a species—Carolina azolla, native to the southeastern United States—that doesn’t have this drawback.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 11 Mar. 2024
  • In a small town called Eden off the coast of southeastern Australian, orca pods would alert whalers and heard humpback whales that swam through these waters every year towards the Twofold Bay area.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023
  • There should be good opportunities to glance at the near-supermoon, which rises at 6:20 p.m. in the southeastern sky.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Karen Kosiba is leading a research campaign to study how tornadoes form and evolve in the southeastern United States.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Return to menu Harmful algal blooms, called red tides, have sent scores of dead fish ashore in southeastern Florida in recent weeks.
    — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
  • In the latest assault, a coalition of militia forces attacked a town in southeastern Kayin state on Friday, blocking the main road to a key border town with Thailand.
    — David Rising, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2023
  • In its southeastern part lies a thin, recent volcanic deposit beneath which glacier ice is likely still present.
    — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The artifact was found inside the remains of a medieval weaving cellar on the southeastern grounds of Kyburg Castle.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024

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