Examples of northbound in a Sentence
The northbound lanes are closed.
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Officers were dispatched just after 1:30 p.m. to the northbound lanes of Interstate 435 after the trucker called about finding the body.
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Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2025
After the collision, the southbound lanes and one of the northbound lanes of U.S. 95 were blocked for more than two hours.
—Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 23 July 2025
Authorities were notified at 2 a.m. Sunday about the crash in the northbound lanes of the 1200 block of Interstate 35 North just north of Texas 79, police said in a social media post.
—Claire Osborn, Austin American Statesman, 15 July 2025
Police said the woman was walking in a marked crosswalk when she was struck by a Toyota Tacoma that was making a westbound turn onto East 27th Street from the northbound lanes of Fruitvale Avenue.
—Harry Harris, Mercury News, 14 July 2025
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Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2025
After the collision, the southbound lanes and one of the northbound lanes of U.S. 95 were blocked for more than two hours.
—Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 23 July 2025
Authorities were notified at 2 a.m. Sunday about the crash in the northbound lanes of the 1200 block of Interstate 35 North just north of Texas 79, police said in a social media post.
—Claire Osborn, Austin American Statesman, 15 July 2025
Police said the woman was walking in a marked crosswalk when she was struck by a Toyota Tacoma that was making a westbound turn onto East 27th Street from the northbound lanes of Fruitvale Avenue.
—Harry Harris, Mercury News, 14 July 2025
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“Northbound.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/northbound. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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northbound
adjective
north·bound
ˈnȯrth-ˌbau̇nd 
: headed north
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