Adjective : a northwest wind. ,sailing a northwest course.    From Dictionary.com. 

Adverb : sailing northwest.    From Dictionary.com. 

Sheridan pursuing the larger body which moved north-west.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

The north-west is a deeply religious region of the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pakistan floods: people return home to find nothing left, nothing at all] Reference

She works in north-west England in an office filled with women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thousands of women fear bleak future as they bear the brunt of public sector cuts] Reference

I look north-west into the darkening to where we've been today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country diary: Wenlock Edge] Reference

The monsoon deluge turned mud houses in north-west Pakistan into a sodden mess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pakistan floods: people return home to find nothing left, nothing at all] Reference

The rebels massed in the north-west angle of the Memphis and Charleston and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

The torrents, having ravaged the north-west, are now gushing deeper into Pakistan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pakistan floods: 'By the time I had got the children, the water was waist high'] Reference

The north-west is the centre of Pakistan's battle against al-Qaida and the Taliban.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pakistan floods: 'By the time I had got the children, the water was waist high'] Reference

Gates has made no secret of his plans to retire to his home in the Pacific north-west.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Gates announces plan to step down as US defence secretary next year] Reference

We were once more afloat on a magnificent stream, nearly a mile wide, curving north-west.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

It was a vast, dark, humming plain, vanishing towards the west and north-west in clouds of sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference

Instead of going north-east for nine miles, the men were led north-west, a detour of twenty miles.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference

Pecos, sweeps around in huge semicircles, but in a general direction from north-west to south-east.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I] Reference

In 1968, they moved to the countryside outside Sumirago in the foothills of the Alps in north-west Italy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missoni: a family always in fashion] Reference

Three of their columns were converging on his position -- one from the north-west under General Erasmus by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference

The mother-parish was St. Madron, about 2½ miles to the north-west; and it is by no means clear who Madron was.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cornwall Coast] Reference

A discourse by Sir Humphrey Gilbert to prove the existence of a passage by the north-west to Cathay and the East.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

Their narratives gave us new islands and bays, but the great problem of the north-west passage continues unsolved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference

In some seasons the cold blast from the north-west proves very destructive to the orange, the olive and peach trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference

The houses being built of wood, and the wind blowing hard at north-west, the flames spread with astonishing rapidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference

Passing Cape Farewell, he sailed north-west with the Greenland current, which brought him to the icebound shores near.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

She came from the village of Melbury Osmond in the north-west of the county, close to Somerset, among the apple orchards.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Thomas Hardy: A Time-Torn Man’] Reference

The attacks came after two days of government air raids on militant strongholds in the north-west, near the Afghan border.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pakistan bomb attacks leave 14 dead and 100 injured in Shia procession] Reference

Sheridan moved back to Dinwiddie Court-House on the night of the 30th, and then took a road leading north-west to Five Forks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, British forces established a number of squash clubs in the north-west of India.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great dynasties of the world: The Khans] Reference

He repeats the old legend of Thule to the north-west of Ireland, "which is known to few, on account of its very great distance.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

The "Casas Grandes" in Chihuahua are on the river of the same name, north-west of the city of Chihuahua, and nearly south of János.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I] Reference

The short full-tide of the summer seemed to run out with the going of the venturers, and the autumn to come from the north-west in a night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference

He begins his great geography with the north-west extremities of the world -- the British Isles, Iverna, and Albion as he calls Ireland and.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

But the floods that devastated north-west Pakistan, claiming about 1,500 lives so far, have destroyed his home and washed away his business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pakistan floods: 'By the time I had got the children, the water was waist high'] Reference

Before the great flood came at the end of July there were some 120 homes in the village of Drab Korona, in Charsadda district in north-west Pakistan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pakistan floods: people return home to find nothing left, nothing at all] Reference

Forecasters today warned China could face more landslides as heavy rains hit the site of the weekend's devastating mudslide in the country's north-west.    From Wordnik.com.  [China fears more landslides after heavy rain hits Gansu province] Reference

In a fundraising email to supporters, Grayson compared the measure to that imposed by Islamists in north-west Pakistan, dubbing his opponent "Taliban Dan".    From Wordnik.com.  [Alan Grayson: Democrat attack dog] Reference

It is sweltering in the north-west Parisian suburb of La Frette-sur-Seine on the afternoon I arrive to meet the performer known once again as "Chilly" Gonzales.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Chilly' Gonzales: 'I like to be married to lots of people'] Reference

Likely congestion hotspots include all the motorways encircling London, the M6 in the Midlands and north-west, the M1 in the East Midlands and the A1 in Yorkshire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Millions plan bank holiday trip, despite travel disruption and rain showers] Reference

Further afield: The Taunus mountains, half an hour north-west, are laced with walking trails and guesthouses, and the Odenwald forest is an hour to the south-east.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frankfurt: your next city-break destination] Reference

She succeeded Michael Carrington, who agreed to move to the north-west last year but then landed a London-based job running the Cartoon Network in January this year.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC North director Peter Salmon not moving fully to Salford] Reference

He is a scholar of Haida mythology – from the Pacific north-west coast – and many of his poems are influenced by this as well as by biblical, classical and Buddhist texts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selected Poems by Robert Bringhurst] Reference