How to Use southern in a Sentence

southern

1 of 2 adjective
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  • Yemen, where the Houthis are based, is at the southern end of the Red Sea.
    — Morgan Fischer, The Arizona Republic, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The comet will appear in the southern part of Aries at the start of the month, then move toward Taurus.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Jan. 2024
  • The agency said in the U.S., most infections have been linked to swimming in southern states.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Surrounded by muck and covered in grime, a large object sat on the seafloor off the southern coast of Italy.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
  • On the southern side of the storm system, heavy rain and severe thunderstorms will move across parts of the Southeast.
    — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The eastern front line, near the besieged city of Bakhmut, is less mined than the wide fields of the southern Zaporizhzhia region.
    — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Stars on Mars was filmed in Coober Pedy, an opal-mining town in southern Australia.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 15 May 2023
  • Biden sent 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border.
    — Arcelia Martin, Dallas News, 16 May 2023
  • Many serve pancakes and omelets, but not southern favorites.
    — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Jan. 2024
  • By Thursday, this storm will bring rain to northern Arizona and rain for southern.
    — Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Other spots in Utah, such as the Straight Cliffs in the southern part of the state, may contain the relevant fossils to answer those questions.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 June 2023
  • Foley is in southern Alabama, about 10 miles north of Gulf Shores.
    — Mike Stunson, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Just before sunset, a parking lot near the Rafah border crossing on the Gaza Strip’s southern border was hit by a blast.
    — Stephen Kalin, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2023
  • In the wake of the Houthi attacks, many of the massive ships that carry some 12 percent of all world trade through the Suez Canal have changed course, set to travel the long way around southern Africa instead.
    — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2023
  • Neighborhoods that were hardest hit are in council Districts 4 and 8 in the southern part of the city, said city spokesperson Nicole Darling.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Xi brought a lot of economic carrots with him for his first trip to China’s southern neighbor since 2017.
    — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Another challenge is the climate in southern New Jersey, which tends to be warmer than that of New England.
    — Wayne Parry, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
  • In a leveled neighborhood in the city of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, a group of men digging through the rubble found first one hand, then another.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The weather service says the heaviest surf will occur in southern San Diego County.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The southern Sierra, which feeds the rivers that flow to the Tulare Lake basin, has nearly three times its average snowpack, likely the most in a century.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Be on the lookout for a few severe storms on Thursday, especially in the southern two-thirds of Alabama.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 10 May 2023
  • At least 31 people are dead after a fire broke out on a ferry in the southern Philippines and raged overnight for eight hours, officials said Thursday.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
  • In late December, a teenage boy with a broken arm was left to suffer alone in his cell at a youth lockup in rural southern Illinois.
    — Molly Parker, ProPublica, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Family members remain trapped in Gaza, mostly in the southern city of Khan Younis.
    — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2023
  • People of all ages lined the road as the funeral procession for Oleksandr Savchenko, who was killed last week in a battle in southern Ukraine, passed by.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The vessel is docked in Iskenderun Port off the coast of southern Turkey, where the quakes and aftershocks leveled entire streets and left many people homeless.
    — Ellen Francis, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The ruins of Mitla sit about 30 miles from Oaxaca in the mountains of southern Mexico, built on a high valley floor as a gateway between the world of the living and the dead.
    — Franz Lidz Meghan Dhaliwal, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The report, published by Human Rights First, was based on attorney and researcher visits to the southern border.
    — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 12 July 2023
  • Heat exposure has been the number one cause of migrant deaths along the U.S. southern border in recent years, followed by drownings.
    — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2023
  • And yet fears of a wider conflict were fueled over the weekend by exchanges of artillery fire between the Israeli military and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
    — Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
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Southern

2 of 2 noun
  • The Leonids are visible in both the Northern and the Southern Hemispheres.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2023
  • There was that safety bridge, uh, spanning Front Street and the Norfolk Southern tracks at the north end of flats.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 3 Aug. 2023
  • In the Southern Piedmont, about half of deer harvested were taken by hunters with hounds.
    — Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Make Corbin’s recipe to warm up the next time a rainstorm blows through Southern California.
    — Danielle Dorsey, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The comet is expected to be visible in the Southern Hemisphere by the end of September.
    — The Arizona Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Rain could be as close as Southern Maryland, with maybe a couple of brief showers up into our area.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
  • There was a preacher in Southern California who booked me on a tour of churches.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2024
  • SoCal home prices All-cash offers and wealthy buyers push Southern California home prices to a record.
    — Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2024
  • The lights are even visible in the Southern Hemisphere in places such as New Zealand when activity is fairly strong.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 7 July 2023
  • The couple first met at Georgia Southern University, and were married in 2006.
    — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Revisiting the subject at the Southern Charm season 9 reunion only made things worse for Rose.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 13 Feb. 2024
  • This 30th anniversary deluxe edition of Southern Harmony contains a wealth of audio bonus treats sure to excite any Crowes fan.
    — Ron Hart, SPIN, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Sure, Los Angeles was glamorous and all, but Southern California has even more to offer.
    — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Here, January—summer in the Southern Hemisphere—represents Nefer’s last chance to interrupt the seed’s growth.
    — S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2023
  • The tournament's name was changed again to the Western & Southern Tennis Tournament after its title sponsor in 2002, becoming the ninth name in the event's history.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Off Route 66 in Southern California, a small doughnut shop has been a community fixture for decades.
    — Adam Yamaguchi, CBS News, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Sign up for our Park Life newsletter and find out what’s new and interesting every week at Southern California’s theme parks.
    — Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 8 Mar. 2024
  • That had an overall planetary warming effect because the Northern Hemisphere contains more land than the Southern Hemisphere, and land heats up quicker than oceans.
    — Scott Dance The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 9 July 2023
  • Keep some, and try out new ones to shake things up a little — maybe create your own traditions that are rooted in Southern California’s gentle autumns and winters.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The winning ticket marked the second billion-dollar-plus Powerball jackpot claimed in Southern California in eight months.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 21 July 2023
  • As a result, Southern Fried Sass revealed a more vulnerable, resilient, and brutally honest side to Minj.
    — Michelle Konstantinovsky, SELF, 27 Nov. 2023
  • According to a recent announcement from Texas Southern University, the balances owed to the school were forgiven for more than 2,000 students.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Norfolk Southern alone will be responsible for paying for the cleanup after last year’s fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio, a federal judge ruled.
    — Josh Funk, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Norfolk Southern alone will be responsible for paying for the cleanup after last year's fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio, a federal judge ruled.
    — Josh Funk, The Enquirer, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The second most recent happened in 2010 — a Southern California security guard who killed his ex-girlfriend and her new partner.
    — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The man, who also threatened Santos’s husband and used an anti-gay slur, is now facing federal criminal charges in the Southern District of Florida.
    — Grace Ashford, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Then, during my senior year of high school, the chair of the physics department at Southern University visited my family and offered me a scholarship.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2023
  • That mirrors a previous study of ocean sediments off the coast of Southern California, which found concentrations to be doubling every 15 years.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 10 July 2023
  • His company does regular round trips of about 300 miles between ports and warehouses in the southern Central Valley and Southern California’s high desert.
    — Paul Berger, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Historically, Torrey Pines has produced some of the top squads in Southern California.
    — Ivan Orozco, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2024

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