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How to pronounce northwards in English?

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Synonyms north, northerly, northward

Examples of northwards

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There are vistas out to the south, south-west and back into Peakland northwards.
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Watford Way itself actually runs northwards from Brent Cross, well to the south.
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The main branch of the Welland meanwhile carried on northwards towards Spalding.
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As the Roman Empire expanded northwards, Rome began to take interest in Britain.
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In reply, an English army moved northwards from Yorkshire to confront the Scots.
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The Bay of Bengal branch moves northwards crossing northeast India in early June.
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The Miaodao Islands extend northwards from the northern coast of the peninsula.
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In late April, the Japanese attacked northwards, as Slim and Lomax had predicted.
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The map is faced eastwards, and not northwards, as usual in modern cartography.
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More examples
  • North: in a northern direction; "they earn more up north"; "Let's go north!"
  • (northward) north: the cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees
  • (Northward) North is one of the four cardinal directions, specifically the direction that, in Western culture, is treated as the fundamental direction: * North is used (explicitly or implicitly) to define all other directions. ...