How to use "north" in a sentence

After that, I'll drive to Goblin Valley, about eighty kilometres north of here

Captain Nemo took us north, through the Indian Ocean, to the Red Sea

But it was time for us to move up north to help some of our other men in the jungle.

You know you are still in your bed, still in your house, still in your quiet street in the north of Manchester

Go north, to Canada, or Alaska.

'In north London,' Frank replied

The Nevada Nuclear Test Site, where underground detonations were conducted several times a year, was less than a hundred miles north of Las Vegas

Several blocks to the north, an ugly column of smoke rose into the twilight sky from what was left of Tina's house, roiling, night-black, the upper reaches tinted around the edges by the last pinkish rays of the setting sun.

Tina was in awe of - and disquieted by - the stately forest that crowded them as they drove north on the narrowing county road

Carlton Dombey, who had come on duty twenty minutes ago, sat at one of the tables against the north wall

Danny's instructions are to take a turn north, off this lane, after about five miles."

The helicopter continued to follow the frozen river north, through the snow-swept valley.

Its air is much thinner than ours, its oceans have become smaller until they cover only a third of its surface, and from its far north and south the ice is steadily moving forwards

A few seconds after midnight the crowd in the Chertsey Road, Woking, saw a star fall from the sky into the woods to the north-west

At that moment a bright green light lit up the road around me and showed the distant woods to the north

'It's no kindness to your wife,' he said, 'for you to get killed.' In the end I agreed to go north with him under cover of the woods

'To the north.'

Soon everybody would be trying to escape to the north

At the same time four of the fighting-machines, also carrying tubes, crossed the river, and two of them, black against the western sky, came into sight of myself and the curate as we hurried along the road to the north.

I had a sudden thought and looked to the north, and there I saw a third of these cloudy black hills.

Far away to the north-east we heard the Martians calling to each other, but our guns were silent.

Then the fourth cylinder fell - a bright green star to the north-east.

People ran to the railway stations, to the boats on the Thames, and hurried by even street that went north or east

All the railway lines north of the Thames had been warned by midnight on Sunday, and trains were being filled

And as time passed and the engine drivers and firemen refused to return to London, the people turned in growing crowds away from the stations and onto the roads running north

The main road was a boiling stream of people, a river of human beings rushing to the north

It seemed that the whole population of London was moving north

It one had flown over London that morning, every road to the north or east would have seemed black with moving refugees, everyone a frightened and exhausted human being.

He was told that the Midland Railway Company had started running trains again, and was taking people north from St Albans

Looking to the north-east, my brother saw the long line of ships already moving away from the approaching terror

Then suddenly, as we walked north, we saw some people running

Perhaps even now they were destroying Berlin or Paris, or maybe they were moving north.

I stayed there for a long time, looking north over the city

At any time the destruction that had already happened to the north-western borders of the city, that had destroyed Ealing, might strike among these houses and leave them smoking ruins

When I passed streets that ran to the north it grew louder, and then houses and buildings seemed to cut it off again

I turned to the north, towards the iron gates of Hyde Park

The voice grew stronger and stronger, although I could see nothing above the roof-tops on the north side of the park except some smoke to the north-west.

'In order to travel to the north part of the River Thames, we need a small boat,' George said

He had found me a job in Cumberland in the north of England: four months teaching drawing to the nieces of Mr Frederick Fairlie of Limmeridge House

At this time, there were slaves in the south of the USA, but not in the north

In 1849, Harriet ran away to find freedom in the north

Emmeline was born in 1858 in Manchester in the north of England