southern

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

In March 2020, Fifa gave the green light to the southern city of Basra, meaning that, at last, crucial home games did not have to take place in Jordan, Malaysia, Iran and elsewhere.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

The project includes the construction of hotel complexes on the uninhabited island of Sazan and in the protected coastal area of Vjosa-Narta, located in the southern community of Zvernec.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

It was a particularly rapid movement up the Iron Pipeline, the name for the trafficking channel from southern states with lax gun laws to northern states with stricter ones.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026

Exxon also amended its bylaws to provide an “exclusive forum provision” to litigate shareholder suits in federal court in southern Texas or the state’s special business courts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

“It seems to me,” Lee wrote, “that we southern people must be slaves in effect, or cut the Gordion knot at once.”

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