How to Use east in a Sentence

east

1 of 3 adverb

• The Bowie store is about 19 miles east of downtown D.C.
  — Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 29 May 2023
• But try telling that to folks in El Cajon and points east.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2023
• The loop trail east of the park road is closed, at the request of Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
  — The Oregonian, oregonlive, 15 July 2023
• Most wildlife habitat east of the Rocky Mountains is on private land.
  — Robert Kunzig, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• They were told the suspects were two males last seen running east through the crowd on Pershing.
  — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 15 Feb. 2024
• Some locations just east of the Coast Range could drop into the 80s or lower 90s.
  — oregonlive, 15 Aug. 2023
• The Naperville Park District has acquired new land and plans to build a neighborhood park just east of the downtown area.
  — Megan Jones, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
• The building stands in the small market town of Eye, which is in the county of Suffolk, about 100 miles east of central London.
  — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
• Still, snow lovers could catch a glimpse of some flakes as far east as the D.C. region late Tuesday night into Wednesday.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
• In 680, Hussein had hearkened to the call of Muslims in the garrison town of Kufa, a few miles east of Najaf.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• However, there are a few pockets of code red, mainly east of the District.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
• Deputies were sent to an area east of Otay Mountain, a sheriff’s official said.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2023
• The cloud moved east overnight and was expected to continue in that direction, Vowles said.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Apr. 2023
• Twenty-five miles east of city center on U.S. 60, the Lake Forest area lights up with holiday cheer.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2023
• The large wetland area, further east of the development, would be preserved.
  — Jim Riccioli, Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2023
• The one that brought all manner of chaos to Los Angeles this week formed when water vapor rose from the sea’s surface somewhere east of Hawaii.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2024
• The blaze hit as fire crews were battling another wildfire farther east.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Richard Winton, Alexandra E. Petri and Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Aug. 2023
• Eventually, his aides were told Navalny had been transferred from the colony in the Vladimir region, which is just over 100 miles east of Moscow.
  — Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 26 Dec. 2023
• This new Buc-ee’s, which opened in June about 20 minutes east of Knoxville, is the Texan retailer’s largest travel center yet.
  — Jenny Rudolph Fort Worth Star-Telegram (tns), al, 18 Aug. 2023
• The area east of 150th Avenue, on the other hand, will be more entertainment-oriented, Olsen said.
  — Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2023
• The man fell off a Carnival Magic cruise ship about 186 miles east of Jacksonville, Florida.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 24 July 2023
• Located just 90 miles east of New Orleans, this town is a merging of marsh, river, and Gulf of Mexico beach.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 28 Nov. 2023
• Rain and thunderstorms will shift east on Friday and expand across more of the Mississippi Valley and the Midwest.
  — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 12 Oct. 2023
• And more good things are coming, including a plaza-like pocket park east of the Marmalade library, set to open in October.
  — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Sep. 2023
• The teams are sequestered about 20 miles east along the shores of Lake Las Vegas, an artificial lake lined with faux-terra cotta resorts.
  — Billy Witz Sinna Nasseri, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2024
• Growing up in the small town just east of Kansas City, Jake’s passion for motorcycles only grew.
  — Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 18 Jan. 2024
• In the Selma area, as many as half of the structures in the town of about 740 people — less than four miles east of the Muncie city limits — had been damaged, according to an initial assessment.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Mar. 2024
• That same system will then make its way farther east, impacting portions of the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast in the days just before Thanksgiving.
  — CBS News, 20 Nov. 2023
• The storm system is expected to move east and drag a warm front across the area Friday, followed by a cold front Friday evening into Saturday.
  — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• The incident occurred east of metropolitan Port-au-Prince, not far from the U.S. embassy.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024

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east

2 of 3 adjective

• At the time, the oil play was all on the east side of the state.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• The east side of the city could see gusts of 30-35 mph at times.
  — oregonlive, 8 Nov. 2022
• Those on the east side of town can catch the grocery’s Eastgate bus to the event.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 7 Nov. 2022
• Chinese on the east side of the Beltway, and Vietnamese on the west side.
  — Dan Q. Dao, Chron, 6 Oct. 2022
• The city then intends to expand the teams to work a 24/7 schedule on the city's east side.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 15 May 2023
• Businesses on the east side of the street set their clocks one hour ahead of those on the west.
  — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
• Safe Streets put its first team in McElderry Park, on the east side.
  — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 30 Jan. 2023
• The east side of the home, which houses the kitchen, faces a large, light-blocking condo.
  — Barbara Sgroi, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2022
• But skies will be sunny, and an east wind may help warm the metro area.
  — oregonlive, 16 Mar. 2023
• The nonprofit is seeking to expand to the city's east side in the next year.
  — Alexandria Burris, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Dec. 2022
• The pavilion was added to the Pabst Mansion's east end as an open porch.
  — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2023
• Two days earlier, Charles Linstrum, 70, was killed in a house fire on the east side of the city.
  — Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 31 Jan. 2023
• Inside Bakhmut, gunshots echoed from the east side of the river that bisects the city.
  — Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2023
• Solon was named the top seed on the east side of Division I, and Olmsted Falls was the top seed of the west.
  — Joe Magill, cleveland, 29 Jan. 2023
• The crowd eventually walked back over to the east side and began to break up.
  — oregonlive, 27 Jan. 2023
• On Sunday night, her tent was the last one standing on the east side of Hampton Drive.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2023
• The city plans to demolish and reconstruct the east side of the span next year, followed by the west side in 2024.
  — Suzanne Baker, Chicago Tribune, 15 Nov. 2022
• The Monte Carlo was found on the east side of Indianapolis.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Nov. 2022
• Three economy garages, one on the airport's west side and two on the east side, charge $16 per day.
  — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 16 Dec. 2022
• Most recently, a coffee shop opened in the mill’s east end.
  — Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2023
• Last year, the group closed a busy second office in Cedar Rapids, on the east side of the state, after grant funds ran out.
  — Noah Weiland, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2023
• The Boat Show in the new I-X layout is located on the east side of the complex, instead of the west entrance.
  — D'arcy Egan, cleveland, 30 Dec. 2022
• The strongest winds will occur from Salem northward and on the east side of the Willamette Valley into the foothills of the Cascades.
  — oregonlive, 7 Feb. 2023
• But last month’s avalanche just north of the town of Lee Vining, on the Sierra’s east side, was different.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2023
• Henry-1 made a shore landing, picked up the four boaters and took them to safety at Lawson’s Landing on the east shore.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Nov. 2022
• The tow truck driver shot and killed the suspect who tried to rob him on Detroit's east side on Monday.
  — Sarah Rumpf, Fox News, 27 Dec. 2022
• The long, white root has a fresh, earthy flavor and is popular in east Asian cooking.
  — Lara Johnson-Wheeler, Vogue, 5 Jan. 2023
• Lord Davis Drive is located in the desirable east side of Avon.
  — Karen A. Avitabile, Hartford Courant, 23 Dec. 2022
• Tao and Ye both grew up in Zhejiang province, a coastal stretch in east China south of Shanghai.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
• Sergio Florian was out for an evening run up a mountain on Oahu’s east side when something caught his eye: a white and gray dog curled up near the edge of a 1,000-foot cliff.
  — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024

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east

3 of 3 noun

• The wind blew from the east.
• The city is framed by mountain ranges to the east and west.
• This summer has been unusually hot in the East.
• The wind at least was blowing east, away from the home.
  — Eric Lipton, New York Times, 5 May 2023
• The Subaru rolled across the guardrail and came to a stop on the road, facing east.
  — Hilary Matheson Daily Inter Lake, Kalispell, al, 5 June 2023
• Parking is available to the north and east of the library building.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 5 Sep. 2023
• The Ukrainian military aims to reclaim land in the south and east of the country.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
• The park is north of Interstate 30 and east of North Cooper Street.
  — Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
• Mostly cloudy skies clear nearer dawn, once the cold front has passed well to our east.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2023
• Lying flat on your back in an area away from lights and looking east should give you a good view of the sky.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 16 Nov. 2023
• There is a slight chance of light rain in the afternoon south and east of Washington.
  — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
• The track veered a little east of what was forecast, helping spare Los Angeles from the worst of the rain.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• On Monday, the system continues east and reaches the east coast by the evening hours.
  — Daniel Amarante, ABC News, 24 June 2023
• The property is located on the north and south side of Bankhead Parkway and east of Gaslight Way.
  — Scott Turner | , al, 25 July 2023
• The two ethnic groups have been clashing in the streets of Imphal in India’s east and elsewhere.
  — Sania Farooqui, CNN, 7 May 2023
• The same threat could carry on east into parts of the Southeast and Ohio Valley Wednesday.
  — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 23 Feb. 2024
• In two days, the Cascade Mountains, east of the big cities, received up to 10 inches of rain, Bower said.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2023
• For months, speculation built over when and how Ukraine’s forces would strike back across the front lines in the south and east of their country.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 11 June 2023
• El Niño causes the Pacific jet stream to move south and spread further east.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2023
• The wind decided to have a mind of its own that night and switched to a straight east, which allowed two different does to bust me.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 1 Nov. 2023
• Last Tuesday, three funerals were held at once for three men killed days apart in the country’s east.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
• Claiming 6th spot overall, Madrid ranks third in the world for quality of life and eighth place for east of settling in.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Confidence: Medium Odds of rain are down Tuesday as the front shifts to our south and east and sunshine makes a comeback.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
• Look for mostly cloudy skies and daytime highs in the mid-50s on the west side and upper 50s east of Sutro Tower on Friday and Saturday.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 May 2023
• Her San Diego childhood east of the new soccer-and-football stadium planted the seeds to the journeys to follow.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2023
• Most white-wing hunting in the United States takes place in Texas, although the birds do spread east and west during their migration.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
• At the same time, Ukrainian forces routed a series of Russian offensives in the country’s east.
  — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 27 June 2023
• In his bedroom there’s a large black and white picture, about a-foot-and-a-half tall and a yard wide, of the view from the corner outside the cafe looking east on Sunset Boulevard.
  — Steve Hochman, SPIN, 3 Jan. 2024
• But on Réunion—the most far-flung of the lot, a small island in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar—almost all the rum made there is from molasses, not cane juice.
  — Tony Sachs, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2024
• The light glowing behind it, implying dawn or dusk, is impossible since the real sign faces south, not east or west, where it could be backed by the rising or setting sun.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024