southerly
/ˈsʌðəli/
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American sound/ˈsʌðəli/
southerly
- Syllables
- 3 syllables
- Stress
- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Schwa vowel
- Ending
- Final y vowel sound
sout - her - ly -> southerly
Myanmar meaning
တောင်ဘက်အနေအထား ၊ ဦးတည်ရပ်တွင် ရှိသော။ တောင်ဘက်မှ လာသော လေ။ တောင်လေ။
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- ‘The objects slowed at one point, and then sped back up heading in a southerly direction.’
- ‘That would explain why boreal plants and animals persist this far south, in some cases isolated from their next most southerly homes.’
- ‘We continue through the brush, ducking under low tree limbs and heading more or less in a southerly direction where the canyon should be.’
- ‘One light then moved quickly in a northerly direction while the other three moved quickly in a southerly direction and out of sight.’
- ‘As it was, they were having to tack back and forth to maintain the southerly direction.’
- ‘He pointed along the top of the ridge, in a southerly direction.’
- ‘We kept heading in a southerly direction, following the convolutions of the shoreline.’
- ‘However he was called in the afternoon by his friends who said she had set off in a southerly direction.’
- ‘You just don't know what it's going to do from one day to the next, so we left Mevagissey in the rain stopping off at the Lizard, the British mainland's most southerly point.’
- ‘The most southerly of the Windward Island chain of West Indian islands, Grenada is part of the English-speaking Caribbean.’
- ‘Three stones lie outside the circle to the north-east, the most southerly with possible ring-marks.’
- ‘Because of our southerly position in the Caribbean, we in Trinidad have had to deal with an actual hurricane only on rare occasions.’
- ‘Margaux is the most southerly, most isolated, and most extensive of the Médoc's communal appellations.’
- ‘He distanced himself from the conventional business model in the planet's most southerly and remote vineyard.’
- ‘The isolated tower perched on a rock near Ireland's most southerly point, Mizen Head, has many moods and a long interesting history.’
- ‘The chunks were carried in a southerly direction and dropped from the glacier as the ice melted.’
- ‘The most southerly of St Vincent's sister islands, Union Island is only three miles long by one mile wide, fringed with gorgeous bays, lagoons, and reefs with perfect sailing waters.’
- ‘As we flew in a southerly direction down the airway from Phoenix, passing Marana, the twilight was fading in the western sky across the desert.’
- ‘We must also remember that the potential damage to more southerly developing countries could include devastating flooding and desertification.’
- ‘Winds ahead of a cold front tend to be from a southerly direction while those behind the front - in the cooler air - tend to be northerly.’
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