How to Use easternmost in a Sentence

easternmost

adjective
  • One runner said she was turned around by police and told to head to the easternmost end of the park.
    Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The easternmost portion of the land includes the floodplain along Niokaska Creek.
    Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate Tucked away near the easternmost edge of the city of Atherton is a block of two dozen properties.
    Christian Leonard, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 May 2023
  • At its easternmost end, the Cayman Trench branches into two fault systems.
    Jordan Fisher Smith, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Sunnyvale is the easternmost city in Dallas County, around 16 miles from Dallas.
    Tina Burnside, CNN, 5 June 2023
  • Advertisement The expert decreed that the easternmost road would be called Piney Meetinghouse Road.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 8 July 2023
  • Joshua Kettle/Unsplash Lasithi Crete’s easternmost region is generally not as crowded as the rest of the island.
    Chadner Navarro, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Aug. 2023
  • There has long been a trickle of asylum-seekers showing up at border checkpoints in Finland, which is the European Union’s easternmost member.
    Vanessa Gera and Jari Tanner, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Lyn Walls, 57, lives in the Maiden Lane Estate, a residential complex with a mix of public and private housing, adjacent to where the easternmost section of the new park will eventually stand.
    Megan Specia, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2024
  • China and Russia also agreed less than three weeks before the Ukraine war to build a third, smaller pipeline that would carry gas from easternmost Russia to northeastern China, and construction on that project has raced ahead.
    Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • This meant that 38 inbound international flights that were already in the air were diverted to Gander, Newfoundland, near the easternmost point of North America.
    Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 9 June 2024
  • This exquisite image captures the Horsehead Nebula, which is located near the easternmost star of Orion’s belt.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Moscow found little popular support, and at first, Putin ended up controlling just a sliver of Ukraine’s two easternmost provinces.
    Carl Bildt, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The countryside around his farm is under almost constant bombardment by Russian forces trying to encircle the easternmost Ukrainian forces and lay siege to Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk.
    New York Times, 4 June 2022
  • This newest offering is the second private location in the Bahamas for the cruise line, situated at the easternmost end of the island of Eleuthera, surrounded by natural beauty of pink sand beaches and clear turquoise water.
    Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel, 17 June 2024
  • Biden wrapped up a three-day diplomatic trip after meeting in Poland with leaders of the alliance’s easternmost countries, which are particularly concerned about Moscow’s aggression.
    Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
  • By the middle of the 21st century, the average daily temperature in Wisconsin is expected to be 5 degrees warmer in most areas and 4 degrees warmer in some of the easternmost counties, including Brown and Milwaukee counties.
    Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Barbados Best for adventurous spirits Although Barbados isn’t typically top of mind for families thinking about a Caribbean vacation, the region’s easternmost island is a playground for adventurous spirits.
    Gina Kramer, USA TODAY, 28 May 2024
  • Archaeologists announced the discovery, at the Armenian archaeological site of Artashat-Artaxata, of the easternmost Roman aqueduct.
    Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2022

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