south of

idiomatic phrase

of a number or value

: less than

Other than crafty Chicago White Sox lefty Dallas Keuchel, no other starter with a strikeout percentage as low as Wheeler had an ERA south of 4.00 in 2020.—

Joe Giglio

… the wine list could use a few more bargains; I counted only a handful of bottles costing south of $60.—

Scott Mowbray

The North Carolina Tar Heels' star quarterback, who averaged more than 300 yards per game and completed nearly 70 percent of his passes in the regular season, went into the fourth quarter of the 2021 Orange Bowl with only 128 passing yards and a completion percentage south of 60.—

David Wilson

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Officers were dispatched to Mahomes' house in Belton, Missouri, roughly 28 miles south of Kansas City, shortly after midnight Oct. 6, an incident summary from the Cass County Sheriff’s Office shows. —

Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024 Those forests cover the Front Range from just south of Interstate 70 to the Wyoming border. —

John Meyer, The Denver Post, 9 Nov. 2024 The Mountain Fire is just south of the area of the Thomas Fire, which started in December 2017 and burned 281,893 acres, destroying more than 1,000 structures. —

Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024 The world's largest dam removal project to date was complete, and about 500 people came to a meadow about 10 miles south of the Klamath last month to celebrate and to look forward to the next phase of restoring an entire basin the size of West Virginia. —

Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for south of