Definition: 1. Located in the south or facing south; connected with or typical of the south part of the world or a region. 2. Situated in or oriented toward the south. 3. From the south; used especially of wind.
Use 'southern' in a sentence:
1. He had developed a slight southern accent.
2. Brian decided to leave the UK and set up home in Southern Spain.
3. I had been running around southern England in a whirlwind of activity.
4. We used to ape the teacher's southern accent.
5. Food is being shipped to drought-stricken Southern Africa.
6. Hurricane Andrew has passed over the southern tip of Florida.
7. He mimicked her southern accent.
8. Yemen commands the strait at the southern end of the Red Sea.
9. It is a traditional kind of music from the southern states of America.
10. She spoke in a slow southern drawl.
11. I had been running around southern California in a whirlwind of activity.
12. The fragile economies of several southern African nations could be irreparably damaged.
13. There is a 1,700-year-old tea tree still living in southern China which is more than 100 feet tall and counting.
14. Southern Pennsylvania is still a world unto itself.
15. In the reorganization, Southern Television lost their franchise.
16. Trees obscured his vision; he couldn't see much of the square's southern half.
17. He left Britain for the sunnier climes of Southern France.
18. Details have been given of a near miss between two airliners over southern England earlier this week.
19. The islands lie at the southern end of the Kurile chain.
20. His abductors blindfolded him and drove him to an apartment in southern Beirut.
21. The Southern plantation house oozes charm.
22. Jack's southern drawl had become more pronounced as they'd travelled southward.
23. They threatened to exile her in southern Spain.
24. He had led the conquest of southern Poland in 1939.
25. The storm cut a swathe through southern England.
26. He was fluent in French, having spent stretches of time in Southern France.
27. Antarctic air brought biting cold to southern Chile on Thursday.
28. Half of those who went east seem to have landed up in southern India.
29. The southern accent was put on for effect.
30. Troops and police have been reinforced in the southern Pakistan city of Hyderabad.
31. The State Recreation Area sprawls over 900 acres on the southern tip of Key Biscayne.
32. Leaders of the Southern states are meeting in Louisville.
33. He now controls the largest retail development empire in southern California.
34. The Canadians plan to deliver more food to southern Somalia.
35. What really sets Mr. Thaksin apart is that he comes not from Southern China, but from northern Thailand.
36. Gerber has been running her own for-profit school in southern Florida for 17 years.
37. When they came to build the southern spire the foundations began to sink.
38. The party has attracted a clutch of young southern liberals.
39. The Everglades National Park stretches across the southern tip of Florida.
40. The southern part of the country was slow to industrialize.
41. He barnstormed across the southern states in an attempt to woo the voters.
42. The sun was now high in the southern sky.
43. Once you have tasted the outdoor life in southern California, it's hard to return to Montana in winter.
44. Trees obscured his vision; he couldn't see much of the Square's southern half.
