8 sentences with 'north'
Example sentences and phrases with the word north and other words derived from it.
• « One Sunday the boy left home to run an errand in a quiet north London suburb; he never returned. »
• « In medieval London, the area to the north of the city, outside the city walls, was intended for displaying the corpses of criminals. »
• « Rameses campaigned against the growing power of an empire in the north called the Hittites, one of the major empires of the Bronze Age period. »
• « To the north, beyond Mesopotamia itself (the land between the rivers), a rival state known as Assyria traded and fought against Kassite-controlled Babylon. »
• « However, from the early 1400 BCE onwards, a wave of invasions by the Mycenaeans to the north eventually extinguished Minoan independence. »
• « The Assyrians adopted the horseback archery of the barbarians they fought from the north, which together with swords and short spears wielded on horseback made chariots permanently obsolete. »
• « In time, Greek colonies spread across the Mediterranean to Spain in the west and the shores of the Black Sea in the north. »
• « The Spartans took the lead in the land army blockading the Persians in the north, while the Athenians attacked the Persian army in the south. »