How to Use eastern in a Sentence

eastern

adjective

• They live in the eastern part of the state.
• Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, was the scene of some the fiercest fighting of the war.
  — Leila Sackur, NBC News, 18 June 2023
• On the eastern side of the mountains, air sinks and warms.
  — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
• From there, the drive to the eastern coast was only about 25 miles.
  — Regan Stephens, Travel + Leisure, 10 Sep. 2023
• Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, has seen some of the bloodiest fighting of the war.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 14 May 2023
• Fomin, a 40-year-old whose pen name was Vladlen Tatarsky, was born in eastern Ukraine.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
• That includes much of the southern and eastern half of the country as well.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Oct. 2024
• Only the eastern slopes of the mountains and the low desert are likely to be sunny.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2024
• Scientists have found the world’s largest deep-sea coral reef off the eastern coast of the United States.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 18 Jan. 2024
• Should be another nice view of the waning beaver moon and Jupiter in the eastern sky this evening.
  — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
• Wakefield is a town of around 5,000 in the eastern part of New Hampshire, near the Maine border.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 27 Dec. 2024
• Three to six inches can occur on the eastern sides of those [Great] Lakes.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2024
• The cemetery is also home to barn owls, great horn owls, and eastern screech owls.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 10 June 2024
• Its troops have been slowly moving into the eastern outskirts of Rafah since the start of the month.
  — Fox News, 22 May 2024
• The Dust Bowl had dried out the agricultural eastern portion of the state.
  — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2024
• The city pitched two square no-truck signs along the road about 400 feet from the campus’ eastern edge in an attempt to shield the school from truck traffic.
  — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Apr. 2024
• The clouds mainly painted the eastern sky, where their undersides were lit up as the sun neared the horizon.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
• Voting is now over in most of Indiana and in the eastern half of Kentucky.
  — ABC News, 5 Nov. 2024
• This is a plant native to the eastern USA that is one of the earliest widespread flowers of spring.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
• The two had met in the 1980s, working on lawsuits filed by the families of coal miners killed on the job in eastern India.
  — Lauren Frayer, NPR, 2 June 2024
• Air raid alerts blared across eastern and central Ukraine on Friday.
  — Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2023
• These premature signs of spring were spurred by a mild winter across much of the country’s eastern half.
  — Jude Coleman, Scientific American, 22 Mar. 2023
• While on the hunt for the best wave last Friday, the pair ended up at the popular beach on Florida's eastern coast.
  — Elizabeth Pritchett, Fox News, 19 July 2023
• The charge against the vicar, Pavlo Lebid, came as Russian forces pounded targets along the front line in eastern Ukraine, killing at least five civilians.
  — Yurii Shyvala, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2023
• His reign also set the foundation for the Greek influence in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea for the preceding 1,000 years.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 9 Jan. 2024
• The brutal scale of the attack on Moldova’s eastern neighbor gave the director pause.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 June 2023
• If winds come from the east, Lake Huron can provide the moisture and the eastern portions of Michigan are affected, rather than the west side.
  — Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2024
• In the early evening in January, Aries typically rises in the eastern part of the sky.
  — The Arizona Republic, 8 Jan. 2024
• High pressure will keep much of the eastern half of the U.S. relatively rain-free through Election Day.
  — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
• The idyllic, postcard beaches, clear water, and sandy anchorages of the eastern region prove a bit more popular.
  — Kathleen Turner, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Jan 2025