Northeasterly is an English word with synonyms like northeast or north. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Northeasterly meaning
- Situated in, or pointing towards, the northeast.
- Coming from the northeast.
Synonyms of Northeasterly
Using Northeasterly
- The main meaning on this page is: Situated in, or pointing towards, the northeast. | Coming from the northeast.
- Useful related words include: northeast, north, northeastern.
- In the example corpus, northeasterly often appears in combinations such as: northeasterly to, northeasterly direction, to northeasterly.
Context around Northeasterly
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 6 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Northeasterly
- In this selection, "northeasterly" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, becoming, strengthening, strong, direction, wind and moderate stand out and add context to how "northeasterly" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include winds becoming northeasterly 15 to and afternoon then northeasterly moderate in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "northeasterly" sits close to words such as abadi, acidification and acker, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with northeasterly
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A thunderstorm is likely, with winds east to northeasterly up to 25kmh. (12 words)
Winds east-northeasterly light, gradually veering southeasterly but becoming variable at times. (12 words)
Across the north-east the outlook reads: “Scattered showers and strengthening northeasterly winds. (13 words)
During this part of the year, hot, dry continental trade winds from deserts sweep over the region such as the harmattan (a northerly or northeasterly wind): the sky is perfectly clear, the weather is stable, very dry and the rainfall inhibition is total. (43 words)
In deploying his ships in this way, Brueys hoped that the British would be forced by the shoals to attack his strong centre and rear, allowing his van to use the prevailing northeasterly wind to counterattack the British once they were engaged. (42 words)
Winds southwesterly moderate to strong, soon sharply veering north-northwesterly and decreasing moderate, veering northerly moderate to strong for a time by afternoon, then northeasterly moderate in the evening and easterly moderate to strong overnight. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Across the north-east the outlook reads: “Scattered showers and strengthening northeasterly winds.
A thunderstorm is likely, with winds east to northeasterly up to 25kmh.
The wind along the coast will be Strong northeasterly along the wild coast at first, otherwise moderate to fresh southwesterly.
And Sterling should be listed on all of those traffic signs guiding motorists out northeasterly on I-76.
Light to moderate Northeasterly to Northwesterly, at 10-20 km/hr, reaching up to 30 km/hr.
Light winds becoming northeasterly 15 to 25 km/h during the day then becoming light during the evening.
Light winds becoming northeasterly 15 to 25 km/h during the day then tending northerly during the evening.
The wind will be easterly to northeasterly with a light and moderate speed, and it will become active over coastal mountains while sea waves will be low to medium in height.
Offshore, it will be mainly northeasterly to southeasterly at a speed of 03 to 13 knot.
Winds southwesterly moderate to strong, soon sharply veering north-northwesterly and decreasing moderate, veering northerly moderate to strong for a time by afternoon, then northeasterly moderate in the evening and easterly moderate to strong overnight.
Winds west-southwesterly moderate, increasing moderate in the late afternoon, then veering northeasterly in the evening.
Lately the wind has been shifting from its northeasterly direction in the morning to a more northwesterly direction in the afternoon, which carries the red tide through the air and into our noses.
The weather continues to be unstable at night, with moderate to active southeasterly to northeasterly wind with speeds of 20-60 kmph and a chance of thunderstorms.
Winds east-northeasterly light, gradually veering southeasterly but becoming variable at times.
Winds northeasterly moderate, occasionally touching strong in the morning, then gradually easing to be light to moderate late overnight.
Another would provide service along the Jordanian border from Eilat to the Dead Sea, Jericho and Beit She'an and from there toward Haifa in the west and in also in a northeasterly direction.
During this part of the year, hot, dry continental trade winds from deserts sweep over the region such as the harmattan (a northerly or northeasterly wind): the sky is perfectly clear, the weather is stable, very dry and the rainfall inhibition is total.
Having taken a northeasterly direction, he marched against the Aspii (mountaineers), who offered vigorous resistance, but were subdued.
In deploying his ships in this way, Brueys hoped that the British would be forced by the shoals to attack his strong centre and rear, allowing his van to use the prevailing northeasterly wind to counterattack the British once they were engaged.
It has a monsoonal-type rainy season (June to November) with southwesterly winds and a dry season (December to May) with northeasterly harmattan winds.
Common combinations with northeasterly
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- northeasterly to 4×
- northeasterly direction 4×
- to northeasterly 3×
- northeasterly wind 3×
- northeasterly winds 2×
- becoming northeasterly 2×
- northeasterly moderate 2×
- in northeasterly 2×
- with northeasterly 2×
- northeasterly harmattan 2×