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Example sentences for "east"

Lexicographically close words:
easilier; easily; easiness; easinesse; easing; eastbound; easterly; eastermost; eastern; easternmost
  1. I judge from his song that he'd figured on a trip East to New York City or Denver.

  2. This passenger agent that took 'em East put 'em up at one of the big hotels all right, but he subjects 'em to hardships they ain't used to.

  3. I guess the speech would have been longer if a light hadn't showed in the east wing of the castle where Angus, peer, slept.

  4. My fault, of course, sending her back East to school and letting her visit the W.

  5. I do not,' says Angus, 'nor Sweden nor Japan nor East Africa.

  6. Now was that spoken like a wise woman or like the two-horned Galumpsis Caladensis of East India, whose habits are little known to man?

  7. East Something or West Something, and hard to remember, and I'd forgot it.

  8. Breakfast over, I stationed myself in the bracing sunlight that warmed the east porch and aimlessly overhauled a book of flies.

  9. Alonzo is this kind: I met him the day Gussie Himebaugh had her accident when the mules she was driving to the mowing machine run away out on Himebaugh's east forty.

  10. Dreamless it must long have been, for the shadows of ranch house, stable, hay barn, corral, and bunk house were long to the east when next I observed them.

  11. As he looked from east to west, William said to one of his staff, "Behold a land worth fighting for!

  12. Next day he marched still southward to Caveirac, only about three miles east of Nismes.

  13. Abandoning as indefensible the English part of the town, situated on the east side of the Shannon, Grace set fire to it, and retired with all his forces to the western side, blowing up an arch of the bridge behind him.

  14. The village of San Veran, which lies up among the mountains some twelve miles to the east of Arvieux, on the opposite side of the Val Queyras, was another of the refuges of the ancient Vaudois.

  15. The road from Cahors to Montpellier did not pass through Montauban, but a few miles to the east of it.

  16. Observing a hill east of the enemy, the King rode up to view the enemy's camp.

  17. But a violent east wind having begun to blow during the night, the fleet steered towards the south-eastern coast of England; after which the ships shortened sail for fear of accidents.

  18. Emboldened by these successes, Cavalier determined on making an attack on the strong castle of Servas, occupying a steep height on the east of the forest of Bouquet.

  19. The yard is a square one, entered by a wicket gate at the south-east corner, and in the corner to the north-west stands the scaffold.

  20. He can shake the damsels’ crinoline, And cure a cobbler’s sore throat; He bangs the country east and west, And licks Johanna Southgate.

  21. And then ransacking the boxes of the murdered man they found more gold, and many handsome and costly articles, the produce of the East Indies, together, with what proved afterwards, to be a marriage certificate.

  22. Besides, ’tis your long lost son who has just returned from the East Indies, and I am his wife, and the daughter of a rich planter long settled and very wealthy.

  23. William Wynne Ryland, for publishing a bill of exchange, purporting to be drawn at Fort Marlborough, in the East Indies, with intent to defraud the Hon.

  24. This murder was committed in King street, East Smithfield, in one of those obscure receptacles of debauchery with which this metropolis abounds.

  25. Five minutes afterwards, the sad procession left the prison for the scaffold, which was erected within the castle walls, on the east side of the Crown Court, a distance of nearly 200 yards from the prison door.

  26. East River, where they landed in Matthews County, Va.

  27. Bermuda Hundred is a peninsula, made by a sweep of the James River to the east and by its tributary, the Appomattox.

  28. No one but a trained novelist can make a long-striding, resolute, down-East woman conform to his notions of conduct and fashion.

  29. On the east side the lake is wooded to the shore, and the jutting points and charming bays make a pleasant outline to the eye.

  30. The so-called Percy's Cross, which stands in a thin clump of trees to the east of the road three-quarters of a mile on the Scottish side of the village, is a comparatively modern erection.

  31. To the east of Minto House are Minto Crags, towering precipitous to a height of over seven hundred feet.

  32. Between east and west, in the Forest of Ettrick, the place-names prove ownership in the past by men of English speech, of Cymric speech, and of Gaelic speech.

  33. The writer has not seen the Roman tombs which exist about half a mile to the east of the camp.

  34. A field to the east of the village shows some, remains of military works, ramparts for guns probably, from which to fire on Norham.

  35. Flying around the east coast had lost its zest: he wanted to join that jaunty group who spoke so easily of hopping off for Los Angeles.

  36. With long, rapid strides he proceeded down the old dirt road toward the main highway where, instead of turning east into the village, he would turn west and walk to Kernsburg, the neighboring town.

  37. In the east the sky was already flecked with yellow pink.

  38. It was known now that the swarm of monsters had originated in the Great Victoria Desert, one of the worst stretches of desolation in the world, situated in the south-east corner of Western Australia.

  39. It is all fertile, but the best grazing ground is at the north-east end.

  40. The scene of the encampment was a valley running east and west, the western end being apparently shut in by some high mountains, spurs of the Cordillera.

  41. The guanaco abounds over a vast range of country, extending from Peru all down the regions east of the range of the Cordillera of the Andes, over the vast plains from Mendoza to the Straits of Magellan, and even to Tierra del Fuego.

  42. A thick growth of shrubs covered the ground, but beautiful glades of luxuriant pasture were visible; one of which opened just to the south of our camping place, and others appeared east and west like oases of green.

  43. Orkeke would not hear of it, so on the 28th we marched, following the course of the river in a more or less north-east direction.

  44. On ascending a short distance, we observed on our left hand (to the westward) a salina of several leagues in length, which bordered the edge of the travesia in about an east or west direction.

  45. On the east side the valley extends some three miles, and continues open to the north for perhaps six miles.

  46. And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

  47. So, for a rearing house for 300 grammes of eggs, the building should be constructed in such a manner that its front and back look east and west, to avoid any inequality in the heat derived from the sun.

  48. These insects arrived, brought by an east wind, and covered the surface of the country to such a degree that the air was darkened by them.

  49. These locusts are bred in the deserts of Arabia and Tartary, and the east winds carry them into Africa and Europe.

  50. Others of the genus Phyllium are provided with wings, and have altogether the appearance of the leaves on which they live; such are the Walking Leaves of the East Indies.

  51. The Cephalemyia (OEstrus) ovis is to be found in Europe, Arabia, Persia, and in the East Indies.

  52. We will describe two: that of the Ash, which lives on those trees in the south of France; and that of the Manna Ash, which is very common in the south-east of France.

  53. They had no difficulty, however, and were soon on the east bank of the stream.

  54. A mile or two to the north-east stood Fort Sinquefield.

  55. Finally it was determined to send out a party larger than any that had yet gone, to operate against the savages on the south-east side of the river.

  56. Just below the junction of the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers, on the east side of the stream, they will find the little town of Tensaw, and Fort Mims stood very near that place.

  57. Turbinella, a genus of Gasteropod molluscs, natives of the East Indian seas, used as ornaments by Hindu women.

  58. East African plant, extensively used in medicine as a stomachic and tonic.

  59. The form ANACH'ORET occurs in many books on church history for the recluses of the East in the early history of the church.

  60. East Indies, which dilates the back and sides of the neck so as to resemble a hood.

  61. East Anglian bor, neighbour, as a form of address.

  62. Areia), the east part of Ancient Persia--Sans.

  63. On they come, the free battalions East and West and North they come, And the heart-beat of the millions Is the beat of Freedom's drum.

  64. Verily, it is all vanity, for my body is only filled as with the east wind.

  65. There was a fresh feeling of pleasure even in looking over at Washington, sun-lighted and shadowed in his miles of heights and depths, as she sat by the cool east window, feeling quite her dainty self again.

  66. Leslie joyously, pointing away to the north and east where the outlines lay faint and lovely in the far distance.

  67. The distant land faded to a thread, to a line, was gone; and to north and south and east and west were but the water and the cloudless ether.

  68. The strength of the East had gathered about them.

  69. Half was she persuaded that in the East the heart might not ache nor the soul grow cold with pain.

  70. A soft east wind was blowing down from the distant Apennines, and all the trees were rustling gently.

  71. The east was overshot with ripples of crimson and orange, here blending into lines each more gorgeous than a moment before.

  72. To the south-east the bleak promontory of Whinnyfold stood out stark and black as velvet and the rocks of the Skares were like black dots in the quivering sea of gold.

  73. Oh, how my heart beat with fear and love and pride as I realised in the message of my dear girl the inner purpose of her words: "To-morrow off north east of Banff Seagull to meet whaler Wilhelmina.

  74. Do ye no see the streaks o' wind rinnin' i' the sky, frae the east to the west?

  75. Some seven or eight miles east of Banff was a little port in a land-locked bay called Gardentown.

  76. This line runs seawards to the east and its strength is shown in its outcrop.

  77. From under the splendid woods of Crathes Castle we saw the river running like a blue ribbon far to the east and on either side of it fields and gardens and woods spreading wide.

  78. At times one may see here the ocean in her fiercest mood; for it is when the tempest drives from the south-east that the sea is fretted amongst the rugged rocks and sends its spume landwards.

  79. As I stepped out of the door to return home, the east began to quicken with coming day.

  80. It was some place, and was east of Banff.

  81. But when I looked around me from this point, where the east opened to me, there was something which restored all my courage and hope, though it did not still the beating of my heart.

  82. Then he sank; from the height where I stood I could see the body roll over and over in the fierce current which made for the outmost point to the north-east of the promontory.

  83. But to east and north there are irregular bays or openings, so that the furthest points of the promontory stretch out like fingers.

  84. Thus, four of the most important ports and bases on the East Coast were captured within two days, together with the wireless stations at Cleethorpes, Hunstanton, and Caister, and sixty thousand men were ashore.

  85. At the early age of 28 he was chosen High Bailiff, and soon made his mark by opposing the renewal of the East India Co.

  86. Uncle Henry died five years later; Aunt Helen went to live at St. Leonard's, where she took up palmistry and became indispensable to the success of charitable bazaars in East Sussex.

  87. He who has vigour may walk to the east as well as the west, if he happens to turn his head that way.

  88. The one which appears to have so strongly affected her may be found on the east end of the outside of the parish church of Twickenham.

  89. A Voyage to the East Indies, by Francis Leguat.

  90. The History of Travayle in the East and West Indies," done into English by Richard Eden.

  91. July 13th, in the same latitude, and some eighty miles east of San Roque, I was astonished to see the same or a similar monster.

  92. Mr. John Nieuhoff's Voyage and Travels to the East Indies, contained in a collection of Voyages and Travels, in 6 vols.

  93. See Voyage to the East Indies, by Francis Leguat; London, 1708.

  94. The White has its source far to the east in the Rocky Mountains.

  95. The canyon is cut nearly halfway through the range, then turns to the east and is cut along the central line, or axis, gradually crossing it to the south.

  96. The Paria, likewise heading near by, runs a little south of east and enters the river at the head of Marble Canyon.

  97. To the east I can see the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains, more than 150 miles distant.

  98. The river turns sharply to the east and seems inclosed by a wall set with a million brilliant gems.

  99. East of San Francisco Peak there is another low volcanic cone, composed of ashes which have been slightly cemented by the processes of time, but which can be worked with great ease.

  100. This fault gradually becomes less to the northward and is flexed toward the east until it joins with the East Kaibab Fault.

  101. On the east side the declining beds are carved into pockets, which often hold water.

  102. To the east we look up the valley of the Vermilion, through which Fremont found his path on his way to the great parks of Colorado.

  103. On the east it is bounded by a high mountain ridge.

  104. On the east side of the river, opposite the rock and below the Yampa, there is a little park, just large enough for a farm, already fenced with high walls of gray homogeneous sandstone.

  105. Still farther east is the Kaibab Plateau, the culminating table-land of the region.

  106. On the west there is a vast limestone stretch, the top of the Marble Canyon Plateau; on the east there are drifting sand-dunes.


  107. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "east" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arctic; boreal; degree; east; easterly; north; northeast; northerly; northern; northward; northwest; northwesterly; south; southeast; southerly; southern; southward; southwest; sunrise; sunset; west; westerly; western; westward


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    east and; east angle; east coast; east corner; east course; east direction; east extremity; east from; east longitude; east monsoon; east part; east passage; east point; east trade; east trades; east transept; east wind; east window; east winds; easterly course; easterly direction; easterly wind; eastern coast; eastern corner; eastern extremity; eastern side