How to Use south of in a Sentence

south of

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  • Now, more and more Americans are eyeing up new lives south of the equator.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 2 July 2026
  • New York-style bagels and more than a dozen homemade schmears are on the menu at a new bagel shop set to open just south of Charlotte.
    — Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 1 July 2026
  • León This historic city south of the Cantabrian Mountains is bound to be one of the hotspots for the eclipse.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 5 July 2026
  • Acampo is about 33 miles south of Sacramento and roughly five miles north of Lodi.
    — David Caraccio updated July 4, Sacbee.com, 4 July 2026
  • This is southeast of Garden City, about an hour drive south of downtown Kansas City.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 5 July 2026
  • The building is three blocks south of the Fort Worth Stockyards national historic district.
    — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 July 2026
  • For more of Sportico’s exclusive videos from the south of France, check out Sportico Studio.
    — Mpalacio, Sportico.com, 2 July 2026
  • Located just south of Yellowstone, this park is often overlooked and is not nearly as accessible as its neighbor.
    — Josh Laskin, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2026
  • For my son and me though, the rather modest town brings back fond memories of an amateur rocketry launch site at the base of a mountain just south of the town off Interstate 8.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • Additional showers and thunderstorms are possible along and south of I-70 now through 8pm.
    — Alexa Newsom, Kansas City Star, 4 July 2026
  • Some of the parkway’s most spectacular stretches can be found here in the Tar Heel State, especially just south of Asheville.
    — Josh Laskin, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2026
  • July 7 – Prayers will be held at the Jamkaran Mosque in Qom, an important holy city about 150 kilometers south of Tehran.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 4 July 2026
  • Iraq has confirmed that funeral processions for Khamenei will be held in Najaf and Karbala, two Shiite holy cities south of Baghdad.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 1 July 2026
  • Meanwhile, thousands of people slept on benches, fire escapes, and parks across the city, especially in Potomac Park, just south of the National Mall.
    — Hana Kiros, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026
  • Sub-Antarctic islands south of Tasmania are home to breeding populations of elephant seals and Neil’s mother would have arrived from one of them to give birth, Volzke said.
    — ABC News, 3 July 2026
  • In Isla de la Juventud, south of mainland Cuba, Marlys Ruiz has built a platform around a different kind of visibility.
    — Vera Lucia Pappaterra, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026
  • Two weeks later, Narváez signed a minor-league deal with the Houston Astros, and his trip south of the border turned into a vacation, not a line on his Baseball Reference page.
    — Brittany Ghiroli, New York Times, 1 July 2026
  • The Aspen Acres Fire, which is burning south of Colorado Springs across Pueblo and Custer counties, has grown to more than 86,000 acres.
    — Chandelis Duster, NPR, 5 July 2026
  • From a local real estate agent heading to Netflix to a New York-style bagel shop expanding south of the city, there’s plenty happening around Charlotte in the foodie (and reality show) world.
    — Emily Broyles, Charlotte Observer, 1 July 2026
  • The incident reportedly happened at a home in the 10000 block of Prairie Lane in Centerville, about 8 miles south of Dardanelle.
    — Rafael Escalera Montoto, Arkansas Online, 2 July 2026
  • Mandatory evacuations are still active around the fire, including in the Turquoise Lake area, and Lake County officials ordered more evacuations south of the fire late Friday.
    — Katie Langford, Denver Post, 4 July 2026
  • Mature birds are released at Palmyra Preserve on the island of Palmyra Atoll in the Pacific Ocean about 1,000 miles south of Honolulu, Hawaii.
    — Finch Walker, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • The transfer of 136 acres just south of the community of Westport will mark the first time land managed by the California Department of Transportation has been returned to Indigenous tribes.
    — Alex Wigglesworth Los Angeles Times, Arkansas Online, 5 July 2026
  • The transfer of 136 acres just south of the community of Westport will mark the first time land managed by the California Department of Transportation has been returned to Indigenous tribes.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
  • Wiley's death drew national attention and prompted demonstrations in Senatobia, a small city in northern Mississippi about 40 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee.
    — Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • Over the holiday weekend, more evacuations in Colorado were ordered across four counties where the Aspen Acres fire had burned about 136 square miles (352 square kilometers) south of Colorado Springs.
    — Jessica Hill, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026
  • And a major new park was to open on Independence Day south of the MacArthur Causeway and sandwiched between Biscayne Bay and Biscayne Boulevard in downtown Miami.
    — Miami Herald, 1 July 2026
  • Hernandez, 29, a contractor based in Franklin, about 20 miles south of Nashville, undertook the $380 project with furniture from HomeGoods after seeing his pet spend most of her life tucked away in a little corner.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 5 July 2026
  • On Thursday, with the help of Granada Theatre officials, it was placed high on an exterior wall of the old Allen Press building, just south of the Granada on the 1000 block of Massachusetts Street.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 3 July 2026
  • Additional filming locations included Tsawwassen, located south of Vancouver, as well as the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, which was converted into the Seattle International Airport, according to the Daily Hive.
    — Francesca Gariano, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026

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