How to use in-sentence of “northwestward”:
+ One southern route of the Silk Road ran along part of the Jayhan river northwestward from Termez before going westwards to the Caspian Sea.
+ The interaction with Hurricane Edouard led to weakening and the storm took a northwestward direction.
+ Slowly moving northwestward through Texas, Tropical Depression Erin managed to keep an area of convection near the center, with its widespread, but scattered rainbands dropping moderate to heavy precipitation.
+ After the JMA downgraded Genevieve to a tropical depression at 06:00UTC on August 12, the system drifted westward and then northwestward very slowly until it accelerated northeastward late on August 13.
+ At first, the storm was expected to continue moving northwestward and hit Guam.