Used in a Sentence

southwestern

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for southwestern.

Editorial note

This exo bears a resemblance to the brace he wore to hike around the southwestern desert.

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Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Of or pertaining to the southwest.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of southwestern gathered in one view.

adjective

Of or pertaining to the southwest.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for southwestern.

Example sentences

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This exo bears a resemblance to the brace he wore to hike around the southwestern desert.

2

Anyone notice the triangle of people floating in the empty space at the southwestern corner of San Francisco near Lake Merced?

3

In the southwestern US, especially, GPS often becomes unusable due to military activity.

4

This is is really the very far Southwestern edge of the Great Plains.

5

Musk handled it like a private Sotheby's auction, launching a secret bidding war among southwestern states with a price floor of $500 million.

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As a white man who was a child in southwestern Missouri in the 1980s, I took the bus to school.

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The report attributed the rise to Mexican drug cartels that control smuggling routes across the Southwestern border, which can produce, transport and distribute the drug.

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Here in my small southwestern town of 100,000 I can think of multiple black baggings....

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More than two-thirds of new investors have never attended or graduated from high school, according to a survey by China’s Southwestern University of Finance and Economics.

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This was done in the southwestern United States.

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I sold books door-to-door in 1996 for Southwestern company.

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The Southwestern cities have always struck me as the cleanest of the places I've been outside of Germany (at least 30 years ago), Switzerland, Canada, and Monaco.

Quote examples

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But he wanted to see a different part of the country: the vestiges of "Japan of the past." He left Shimizu and moved to a fishing village of 1,000 people in Kagoshima prefecture at the southwestern tip of Kyushu.

Proper noun examples

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Southwestern Ontario, but I also remember it from when I lived in the suburbs east of Toronto.

2

In places where grass is hard to grow (Southwestern US) you see a lot of rock varieties and other materials that they substitute for grass and it looks great.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use southwestern in a sentence?

This exo bears a resemblance to the brace he wore to hike around the southwestern desert.

What does southwestern mean?

Of or pertaining to the southwest.

What part of speech is southwestern?

southwestern is commonly used as adjective.