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- adjective
northeastward - adverb northeastward
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Examples
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I manoeuvred the heavy horsebox carefully through the small village and set off northeastwards on the road over the Downs, retracing the way I had come from London.
Forfeit Francis, Dick 1968
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I manoeuvred the heavy horsebox carefully through the small village and set off northeastwards on the road over the Downs, retracing the way I had come from London.
Forfeit Francis, Dick 1968
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This track is shaped like a rounded cone, or, more often, like a boomerang, with a short arm running north-westwards to its place of turning and a long arm running northeastwards until its force is spent.
Plotting in Pirate Seas Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918
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Next day he found that the other track joined the lower road only about half a league to northeastwards.
Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Edward Lucas White 1900
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The lunar shadow will fall in the Algerian Sahara at 0640 GMT before flitting northeastwards.
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"Further, due to changing environmental flow pattern, the system (Phet) would move slowly in a northwesterly/northerly direction for next 24 hours and cross Oman coast by tomorrow (June 4) morning," they said, adding, "It would then weaken gradually, recurve northeastwards and emerge into north Arabian Sea by June 5 and move towards Pakistan coast."
The Times of India 2010
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According to IMD, the depression would further weaken and move east-northeastwards and cross Pakistan coast.
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The little finger represents the Keweenaw Peninsula, jutting out northeastwards into Lake Superior.
Strange Maps strangemaps 2010
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Variations in flow of the Gulf Stream system and in transport of warm Atlantic water across the Wyville-Thomson Ridge northeastwards (via the North Cape Current) affect the areal extent of ice in the Barents Sea.
Scientific Blogging logicman 2010
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Variations in flow of the Gulf Stream system and in transport of warm Atlantic water across the Wyville-Thomson Ridge northeastwards (via the North Cape Current) affect the areal extent of ice in the Barents Sea.
Scientific Blogging logicman 2010
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