Ang kahulugan ng diksyunaryo ng "hilagang-silangan" ay ang direksyon na nasa kalagitnaan sa pagitan ng hilaga at silangan. Ginagamit din ito upang ilarawan ang rehiyon o lugar na nasa hilagang-silangan na direksyon mula sa isang partikular na lokasyon.
1. Rune looked to the sun suspended over the lake then to the northeast where the river flowed.
2. When we let the birds go, watched them all rise from the ground and turn toward the northeast, I could feel in the beating heart of Cedric his reluctance in leaving me alone in the midst of so many enemies.
3. There are indications that Islamic extremists based in Somalia may be planning to target Westerners, especially American citizens, in the Kiwayu Island tourist area and other beach sites frequented by Western travelers on the northeast coast near Somalia.
4. The empire of Blefuscu is an island situated to the northeast of Lilliput, from which it is parted only by a channel eight hundred yards wide.
5. Having thus fixed fifty hooks to as many cables, I went back to the northeast coast, and putting off my coat, shoes, and stockings, walked into the sea in my leathern jerkin, about half an hour before high water.
6. Three days after my arrival, walking out of curiosity to the northeast coast of the island, I observed, about half a league off in the sea, somewhat that looked like a boat overturned.
7. The kingdom is a peninsula, terminated to the northeast by a ridge of mountains thirty miles high, which are altogether impassable, by reason of the volcanoes upon the tops neither do the most learned know what sort of mortals inhabit beyond those mountains, or whether they be inhabited at all.
8. I got upon a height, and looking on every side into the sea, fancied I saw a small island towards the northeast.
9. He stood with Cam near the access hatch that had brought them up onto the northeast corner of the roof.
10. The beast hovered a little way to the northeast, sending great plumes of roiling flame into what Rowan guessed was Piccadilly Gardens.