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northernmost
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A storm in a northernmost tea-cup?
▪ And that very night a new constellation appeared in the northernmost quarter of heaven.
▪ And the northernmost town has several sprawling communities dotted with golf courses and street after street of lush, green lawns.
▪ In the meantime, the 2d Battalion of the 271 Regiment, moving forward in a column, engaged the northernmost company.
▪ Now I was stuck on my northernmost hang-up.
▪ The northernmost zone has the least continuous plant cover, the most patterned ground exposed, and the narrowest range of communities.
▪ Then they spotted a fishing boat, near the northernmost reef.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Northernmost

Northernmost \North"ern*most`\, a. [Cf. Northmost.] Farthest north.

Wiktionary
northernmost

a. Farthest north.

WordNet
northernmost

adj. situated farthest north; "Alaska is our northernmost state" [syn: northmost]

Usage examples of "northernmost".

The northernmost reach of the Plain, which lay beyond the Hallow Hills, was warm enough, Calydor informed him, for mares to bear their young in any season.

Sir Ehdt had constructed a huge sand-table model of the western borders of Vawn, with southernmost Skaht to the north and northernmost Baikuh to the south.

The time to ride to Jakaafra is certainly understandable, since Geliendra is on the southernmost point of the diamond walls that surround the Forest, and Jakaafra above the northernmost.

He stalked to the northernmost wall and stared out over its crenellated edge.

She followed Portobello to its northernmost point, past a few sad-looking stands selling what looked to her like stuff that even the least choosy of bag ladies would be embarrassed to possess, past a vegetarian restaurant with a queue outside, past record shops with Rasta colors in the windows, past a falafel restaurant, under a bridge, and past a bustling market square filled with yet more painfully trendy people.

On the morrow he would have to ride to the northernmost reaches of Nether, to seek out the hold of Prince Volvn, his best general and the wiliest strategist in the realm.

When that fateful diocesan meeting occurred, as autumn began, when the Bishop announced changes in parish appointments, the Reverend Charles Iredale was transferred to a charge in the northernmost part of the diocese, a wretched post where he would be expected to serve six small country churches, the total number of parishioners numbering less than a hundred and fifty.

So came the Wolfings and their fellows up to the dwellings of the northernmost kindred, who were called the Daylings, and bore on their banner the image of the rising sun.

From the northernmost pointNohtohpolisburk in the Principate of Kuhmbuhluhntwenty days of hard riding would lead to the southern border, unmarked amidst the treacherous salt fens beyond which lay the legendary evil Witch Kingdom and, even with the matchless roads built and maintained by the army, the remainder of a full month needs must be ridden out before the southwesternmost principate, on the eastern and northern shores of the brackish River Sea, was reached.

At that time, from the northernmost isles which even the wildmen did not often visit, there came Angorman, a salty young roughneck who had heard of the deeds of the Brotherhood, seen an image of the Celestial Goddess carved on the bowsprit of a wrecked ship and decided on the spot to join them.

At three hundred miles distance from the northernmost escorts of the American aircraft canier Nimitz, the six Backfire bombers would launch their missiles from eleven thousand meters.

The end result of that was a temporary "breakwater" running from the northernmost tip of Iftel to the southernmost end of Karse, a breakwater that disrupted the mage-storms as they moved across the face of the land, broke them up and dissipated their energies harmlessly.

Since the Disty had taken over the northernmost colonies, darkness outside and artificial lights inside were the hallmarks of winter.

The doctor took an accurate design of these mountains, which form four distinct ridges almost in a straight line, the northernmost being the longest.

She was the northernmost antisubmarine ship protecting the Nimitz, and because she was primarily an antisubmarine vessel her antiair capabilities were limited: she carried only one Mark 13 antiaircraft missile launcher on her forward deck.