Dictionary entry
Southerly
Pronunciation: /ˈsʌðəli/
Pronunciation
/ˈsʌðəli/
Myanmar Meaning
တောင်ဘက်အနေအထား ၊ ဦးတည်ရပ်တွင် ရှိသော။ တောင်ဘက်မှ လာသော လေ။ တောင်လေ။
Definition
southerly /'sʌðǝli/ adj, adv ၁။ ေတာင္ဘက္သို႔။ ေတာင္စူးစူး။ The plane flew off in a southerly direction. ၂။ ေတာင္ (ေလ)။ southerly breezes. n (esp pl ) ေတာင္ေလ။ warm southerlies.
Examples
- ‘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.’