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

  1. ‘The objects slowed at one point
  2. and then sped back up heading in a southerly direction.’
  3. ‘That would explain why boreal plants and animals persist this far south
  4. in some cases isolated from their next most southerly homes.’
  5. ‘We continue through the brush
  6. ducking under low tree limbs and heading more or less in a southerly direction where the canyon should be.’
  7. ‘One light then moved quickly in a northerly direction while the other three moved quickly in a southerly direction and out of sight.’
  8. ‘As it was
  9. they were having to tack back and forth to maintain the southerly direction.’
  10. ‘He pointed along the top of the ridge
  11. in a southerly direction.’
  12. ‘We kept heading in a southerly direction
  13. following the convolutions of the shoreline.’
  14. ‘However he was called in the afternoon by his friends who said she had set off in a southerly direction.’
  15. ‘You just don't know what it's going to do from one day to the next
  16. so we left Mevagissey in the rain stopping off at the Lizard
  17. the British mainland's most southerly point.’
  18. ‘The most southerly of the Windward Island chain of West Indian islands
  19. Grenada is part of the English-speaking Caribbean.’
  20. ‘Three stones lie outside the circle to the north-east
  21. the most southerly with possible ring-marks.’
  22. ‘Because of our southerly position in the Caribbean
  23. we in Trinidad have had to deal with an actual hurricane only on rare occasions.’
  24. ‘Margaux is the most southerly
  25. most isolated
  26. and most extensive of the Médoc's communal appellations.’
  27. ‘He distanced himself from the conventional business model in the planet's most southerly and remote vineyard.’
  28. ‘The isolated tower perched on a rock near Ireland's most southerly point
  29. Mizen Head
  30. has many moods and a long interesting history.’
  31. ‘The chunks were carried in a southerly direction and dropped from the glacier as the ice melted.’
  32. ‘The most southerly of St Vincent's sister islands
  33. Union Island is only three miles long by one mile wide
  34. fringed with gorgeous bays
  35. lagoons
  36. and reefs with perfect sailing waters.’
  37. ‘As we flew in a southerly direction down the airway from Phoenix
  38. passing Marana
  39. the twilight was fading in the western sky across the desert.’
  40. ‘We must also remember that the potential damage to more southerly developing countries could include devastating flooding and desertification.’
  41. ‘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.’