northern

Example Sentences

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However, northern Honduras has been the site of ongoing agrarian conflict for years.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

Best friends Kush Burman and Jo Diop have certainly won the hearts of many viewers, eager to see them complete their journey to northern Mongolia.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

In northern Britain, evidence from this era is extremely rare because glaciers from the Ice Age heavily altered the landscape and destroyed many archaeological traces.

From Science Daily • May 20, 2026

Six hundred years ago, on a muddy field near Agincourt in northern France, King Henry V’s outnumbered, half-starved English army faced the flower of French chivalry.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

The exceptions were New York and New Jersey, which, not incidentally, remained the only northern states to resist the passage of gradual emancipation laws.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis