How to Use back East in a Sentence

back East

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• Wong married a New Yorker, and spent more than a decade back East.
  — Kturnqui, oregonlive, 28 Aug. 2023
• Seeing my puppy play with dogs around the country and introducing him to my family back East.
  — Olivia Harrison, refinery29.com, 30 July 2020
• The Niners returned home following back-to-back road wins back East but struggled to slow down Rodgers.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2021
• At that time, like most states back East, school didn’t start until the Tuesday after Labor Day.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 25 Aug. 2022
• The lone victory for this horse was on dirt going a mile back East under trainer Wesley Ward.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2021
• Businesses back East provided supplies and profited from the gold the prospectors brought back.
  — Andre Byik, USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
• The Niners have experience spending one week on the road, having done it between games back East the past two seasons.
  — Josh Dubow, Star Tribune, 1 Dec. 2020
• Finding such large parcels is nearly impossible back East and becoming much harder in Colorado.
  — Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026
• Suddenly jobless, a new proletariat scuttled back East, praying for work in factories and cities.
  — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2023
• The postal system played a crucial role in keeping settlers in the West connected to relatives back East as well as to merchants in nearby towns.
  — Marc Levinson, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2021
• Trolley lines move across the city, stretching as far West as the Darby Transit Center and back East toward 13th street.
  — Kaitlyn McCormick, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
• In some places back East, there will be 1 million cicadas per acre or more, scientists say, potentially sending the population total over 1 trillion.
  — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 5 May 2024
• Here was an Angeleno whose literary reputation not only remained intact, but made erudite intellectual giants back East cower and genuflect.
  — Lesley M.m. Blume, Town & Country, 5 Jan. 2022
• Apparently, the Meyers in Long Beach were ruled unfit as guardians, or Lynn refused to go back to them, so juvenile authorities located some blood relatives, possibly her father or half sister, and put her on a train back East.
  — Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026