northbound

Example Sentences

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All northbound lanes of the 101 freeway approaching downtown Los Angeles were closed off by the California Highway Patrol in Boyle Heights on Thursday morning because of police activity in the area.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

A police shooting on the 405 freeway has shut down all northbound lanes at Howard Hughes Parkway not far from Los Angeles International Airport, according to the California Highway Patrol.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

The capybaras’ stretch of the Pinheiros River is a former no-man’s land; geographically, it’s in the center of the city, and yet isolated, sandwiched between an expressway’s northbound and southbound lanes.

From Slate • May 27, 2026

Traffic had slowed to a halt on the northbound carriageway of the A12 between junctions 23 and 24.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

For northbound hikers Sunfish Pond is something of a glorious novelty, since nowhere south of here will you find a body of water on a mountaintop.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson