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Example sentences for "eastbound"

Lexicographically close words:
easily; easiness; easinesse; easing; east; easterly; eastermost; eastern; easternmost; easting
  1. In these operations of the cruiser and transport force of the Atlantic fleet not one eastbound American transport has been torpedoed or damaged by the enemy and only three were sunk on the return voyage.

  2. Though grain and flour constituted the most important part of the eastbound lake traffic, there was at the same time a considerable trade in other commodities.

  3. For those wishing to visit the Forest and resume their journey the same day, arrangements have been made to meet eastbound Navajo No.

  4. Eastbound tourists enter the Forest from Holbrook where Highways No.

  5. Eastbound Car 119 was ordered to cut across to the scene to assist Beulah's crew, and another eastbound patrol vehicle was held in place to cover for One One Nine.

  6. They listened to the eastbound densities peaking at twenty-six thousand vehicles in the same block, all heading into the metropolis and their jobs.

  7. The dead went into the morgue aboard the ambulance, the ramp closed and the ambulance swung around and headed across the traffic lanes to eastbound NAT-26 and Philadelphia.

  8. A half mile ahead, the fugitive car plowed along the bottom of the gentle draw in a cloud of snow, trying to fight its way up the opposite slope and onto the eastbound thruway.

  9. We're to go out on the eastbound plane for Chicago," she explained.

  10. You can go home," said Grace, "but Alice and I are ordered out on the eastbound mail.

  11. In another half hour they would be aboard an eastbound transport plane, speeding toward Chicago.

  12. The end of their first year as stewardesses neared and it was late in May when Jane, aboard the eastbound Coast to Coast Limited, swooped down on the field at Omaha.

  13. The night manager stepped into the dispatcher's office to inquire the position of the eastbound plane.

  14. A burning wind swept down out of the mountains and it was hot that morning when the eastbound Coast to Coast drifted in.

  15. Miss Comstock was busy in the commissary, checking supplies which were to go aboard the eastbound planes and the girls all lent her a hand.

  16. The first plane eastbound for Chicago with room for you will be through at three o'clock this morning.

  17. Business eastbound had been heavier than the westbound traffic, and as a result there were more girls at the Chicago airport than needed.

  18. He was a distinctly attractive looking lad, as he stood now on the station platform of the little town, while the eastbound train rumbled in, and he fingered in his pocket the letter from Chicago.

  19. He was, the second morning later, waiting for the first of the two daily eastbound trains which stopped at the little Kansas town of Blue Rapids which he called home.

  20. It is recommended, therefore, that Forbes Street be made the main artery of this eastbound thoroughfare system, and that it be widened to 100 feet.

  21. If we seek history, let us ponder that chance pause of the eastbound family, traveling by motor for pleasure, here by the side of the graves of the travelers of another day, itself so briefly gone.

  22. Before these adventurers, now eastbound and no longer facing west, there arose the vast and formidable mountain ranges which in their time had daunted even the calm minds of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.

  23. Tea and silk eastbound were usually delivered by the steamships to the rail lines at San Francisco.

  24. Inasmuch, however, as the raw products of California were heavier and took up more space than the manufactured goods received in exchange for them, a very considerable excess of eastbound tonnage often existed.

  25. When the Interstate Commerce Act was passed in 1887 the transcontinental carriers agreed to grade eastbound rates back to the Pacific Coast.

  26. On the basis of the rates charged, the railroad admitted that it was losing money, at least so far as eastbound freight was concerned.

  27. This is one vessel every two hours and thirty-five minutes during the twenty-four hours--meaning an eastbound craft every five hours and ten minutes, and a westbound every five hours and ten minutes.

  28. I admit seeing you on the eastbound influenced me.

  29. The fertile fields were left behind, then presently the eastbound steamed through a gap in a sun-baked ridge and entered a great arid level.

  30. Then, in the interval it disappeared, an eastbound challenged from the lower gorge, and the monster rushed from cover, shrieking defiance; the pawing clamp of its trucks roused the mountainside.

  31. He rose to go in, but the eastbound suddenly plunged into the coolness of a tunnel, and he waited while it bored through to daylight and moved on along a shelf overlooking a dry run.

  32. I happened to be on the eastbound at the siding where it all occurred.

  33. No, Miss Armitage, I understand how you had to decide, in a moment, to take that eastbound train in Snoqualmie Pass, and that you believed it would be possible to motor or stage across to Wenatchee from the Milwaukee road.

  34. The eastbound began to wind and lift like a leviathan seeking a way through.

  35. Now he saw the real impulse that had led her to board the eastbound train in Snoqualmie Pass.

  36. Far off through billowing swells one other islet appeared, but these two passengers the eastbound had left were like a man and woman marooned.

  37. And to-morrow I shall be shut up on my eastbound train.

  38. Mr. Morganstein was injured, and the others took the westbound home with him, but I decided to board the eastbound and go on by stage to Wenatchee, to see my desert tract, and return by way of the Great Northern.

  39. I have orders to hold them for the eastbound silk train, and they'll let you ride in the caboose up to Kittitas.

  40. But the significant point was that there was no demand for a blanket zone for eastbound traffic.

  41. The Pennsylvania was competing from Pittsburg directly eastbound to New York with certain feeders of the New York Central lines which took out traffic bound for the same destination but leaving Pittsburg westbound.

  42. The great increase of eastbound shipments and the demand for return lading at any price was undoubtedly the cause.

  43. The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton prior to its consolidation with the Pere Marquette divided its eastbound tonnage from the rich territory about Cincinnati among the trunk lines naturally tributary.

  44. Over four-fifths of the eastbound traffic came from the states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

  45. As for direction, the original scale was intended only for eastbound traffic.

  46. In 1870 this eastbound traffic was about three times as great as the tonnage west bound.

  47. The uneven distribution of traffic is still further complicated by the excess of tonnage eastbound in trunk line territory along the northern side of our triangle, above mentioned.

  48. But no sooner was it consolidated with the Michigan road than its eastbound freight was diverted to the north--first hauled to Toledo, Detroit and even up to Port Huron, thence moving east and around Lake Erie to Buffalo.

  49. The volume of eastbound tonnage was enormous in the early eighties.

  50. Some applied only to westbound business, others to eastbound traffic.

  51. Even as late as 1882, over four-fifths of the eastbound trunk line traffic originated not further west than Illinois.

  52. The same thing is true upon the Great Lakes, where a practical monopoly of eastbound transportation has been long held by the trunk lines.

  53. In St. Louis, the eastbound mail was an hour earlier.

  54. It was a question whether the man would be able to take the eastbound pouches, and if he should not be there was no substitute on hand.

  55. When the eastbound stage pulled up that afternoon the driver and passengers found the long-haired young station-keeper in a deep swoon, with eleven buckshot and thirteen knife wounds in his body.

  56. The weary messenger started toward one of the bunks to get a bit of rest, but before he had thrown himself on the blankets, the coyote yell of the eastbound rider sounded up the road.

  57. Grenville Ford arrived in a speeding cab just as the afternoon eastbound express roared over the field and circled to point its nose into the wind and land.

  58. The eastbound express had been bucking headwinds all afternoon and as a result was ten minutes late.

  59. Then, having reached the eastbound level, he headed straight in the direction of the palace of Fragoni.

  60. Arriving there, she carefully questioned the boys and brought out only one more useless item, that a westbound immigrant train had pulled into the siding to permit an eastbound passenger train to pass them.

  61. It was the eastbound run, and, to make up for the loss of time a slow order over new construction work back a dozen miles or so had cost him, the 1601 was hitting a pretty fast clip as he whistled for Elbow Bend.

  62. Number Eighty was the eastbound Coast Express!

  63. Here he met the eastbound messenger, also with important missives, from the Coast to Washington.

  64. Eastbound the first rider carried about seventy letters.

  65. Less than an hour later they were scudding to a landing on a field where the remains of the eastbound express were only a blackened heap.

  66. Ralph lapsed into a grim silence as Tim and the pilot of the express ship prepared their planes for the takeoff on the eastbound trip.

  67. In brief clear sentences he read how the eastbound mail plane, which had left Atkinson at midnight, had been found a hundred miles east near Auburn, a village in the valley of the Cedar River.

  68. He's wrecked our eastbound express plane and looted its cargo!

  69. Used to the vanishing tail lights, the measured sinking of the sullen dust, the silence brooding again over the desert with, this night, fifteen minutes more to wait for the eastbound stock train before they dared open the switch.

  70. At Sugar Buttes they held him thirty minutes for the Moulton Special to pass, and, to crown his indignities, kept him there fifteen minutes more waiting for an eastbound sheep train.

  71. They were ordered to run with right of track over all eastbound trains thirty minutes apart all the way through.

  72. Moreover, there were no extra sections marked up and only one Special on the Division card--a theatrical train eastbound with Henry Irving and company from 'Frisco to Chicago.

  73. We haven't heard from either the eastbound or the westbound for more than half an hour.

  74. A special section of the air mail eastbound had just come in and the salvage mail was placed aboard it to continue the journey to eastern cities.

  75. He levelled off two feet above the peak which had impaled the eastbound mail and circled carefully.

  76. They would meet the eastbound trains coming down the left-hand pair of rails.

  77. I've found the eastbound plane and pilot," shouted Tim, "and I need more gas and a couple of men to fly back with me and help get the pilot out.

  78. Lewis, on the eastbound plane, would have been the farthest from the Atkinson field, and Tim gunned his ship hard as he headed for the mountains.

  79. Then she stamped it and placed it in the bag that would be taken up in the morning, for the eastbound express.

  80. Not a mile outside of Cliff City, and on this eastbound side of the right of way, was a long siding and a shipping point for timber.

  81. At two o'clock in the morning a fast westbound freight had left the track in Petrolite Canyon, and before they could get the flagman out, a delayed eastbound passenger had collided with the ruins.

  82. Hence there would still be forty-one minutes running time to be divided between the eastbound train and the westbound engine.

  83. At last came the day when the eastbound caravan was all but ready to start, certain last minute needs arising that kept it in the camp outside the city until the following morning.

  84. In contrast with previous proposals, the eastbound traffic was also to be parcelled out by the lines forming the pool.


  85. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eastbound" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.