How to Use east in a Sentence

east

1 of 3 adverb

• The Bowie store is about 19 miles east of downtown D.C.
  — Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 29 May 2023
• But try telling that to folks in El Cajon and points east.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2023
• The loop trail east of the park road is closed, at the request of Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
  — The Oregonian, oregonlive, 15 July 2023
• Most wildlife habitat east of the Rocky Mountains is on private land.
  — Robert Kunzig, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• They were told the suspects were two males last seen running east through the crowd on Pershing.
  — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 15 Feb. 2024
• Some locations just east of the Coast Range could drop into the 80s or lower 90s.
  — oregonlive, 15 Aug. 2023
• The Naperville Park District has acquired new land and plans to build a neighborhood park just east of the downtown area.
  — Megan Jones, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
• The building stands in the small market town of Eye, which is in the county of Suffolk, about 100 miles east of central London.
  — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
• Still, snow lovers could catch a glimpse of some flakes as far east as the D.C. region late Tuesday night into Wednesday.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
• In 680, Hussein had hearkened to the call of Muslims in the garrison town of Kufa, a few miles east of Najaf.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• However, there are a few pockets of code red, mainly east of the District.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
• Deputies were sent to an area east of Otay Mountain, a sheriff’s official said.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2023
• The cloud moved east overnight and was expected to continue in that direction, Vowles said.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Apr. 2023
• Twenty-five miles east of city center on U.S. 60, the Lake Forest area lights up with holiday cheer.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2023
• The large wetland area, further east of the development, would be preserved.
  — Jim Riccioli, Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2023
• The one that brought all manner of chaos to Los Angeles this week formed when water vapor rose from the sea’s surface somewhere east of Hawaii.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2024
• The blaze hit as fire crews were battling another wildfire farther east.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Richard Winton, Alexandra E. Petri and Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Aug. 2023
• Eventually, his aides were told Navalny had been transferred from the colony in the Vladimir region, which is just over 100 miles east of Moscow.
  — Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 26 Dec. 2023
• This new Buc-ee’s, which opened in June about 20 minutes east of Knoxville, is the Texan retailer’s largest travel center yet.
  — Jenny Rudolph Fort Worth Star-Telegram (tns), al, 18 Aug. 2023
• The area east of 150th Avenue, on the other hand, will be more entertainment-oriented, Olsen said.
  — Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2023
• The man fell off a Carnival Magic cruise ship about 186 miles east of Jacksonville, Florida.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 24 July 2023
• Located just 90 miles east of New Orleans, this town is a merging of marsh, river, and Gulf of Mexico beach.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 28 Nov. 2023
• Rain and thunderstorms will shift east on Friday and expand across more of the Mississippi Valley and the Midwest.
  — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 12 Oct. 2023
• And more good things are coming, including a plaza-like pocket park east of the Marmalade library, set to open in October.
  — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Sep. 2023
• The teams are sequestered about 20 miles east along the shores of Lake Las Vegas, an artificial lake lined with faux-terra cotta resorts.
  — Billy Witz Sinna Nasseri, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2024
• Growing up in the small town just east of Kansas City, Jake’s passion for motorcycles only grew.
  — Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 18 Jan. 2024
• In the Selma area, as many as half of the structures in the town of about 740 people — less than four miles east of the Muncie city limits — had been damaged, according to an initial assessment.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Mar. 2024
• That same system will then make its way farther east, impacting portions of the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast in the days just before Thanksgiving.
  — CBS News, 20 Nov. 2023
• The storm system is expected to move east and drag a warm front across the area Friday, followed by a cold front Friday evening into Saturday.
  — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• Others relocated to southern Israel en masse and set up a makeshift command post 15 miles east of Gaza.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023

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east

2 of 3 adjective

• At the time, the oil play was all on the east side of the state.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• The east side of the city could see gusts of 30-35 mph at times.
  — oregonlive, 8 Nov. 2022
• Those on the east side of town can catch the grocery’s Eastgate bus to the event.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 7 Nov. 2022
• Chinese on the east side of the Beltway, and Vietnamese on the west side.
  — Dan Q. Dao, Chron, 6 Oct. 2022
• The city then intends to expand the teams to work a 24/7 schedule on the city's east side.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 15 May 2023
• Businesses on the east side of the street set their clocks one hour ahead of those on the west.
  — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
• Safe Streets put its first team in McElderry Park, on the east side.
  — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 30 Jan. 2023
• The east side of the home, which houses the kitchen, faces a large, light-blocking condo.
  — Barbara Sgroi, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2022
• But skies will be sunny, and an east wind may help warm the metro area.
  — oregonlive, 16 Mar. 2023
• The nonprofit is seeking to expand to the city's east side in the next year.
  — Alexandria Burris, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Dec. 2022
• The pavilion was added to the Pabst Mansion's east end as an open porch.
  — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2023
• Two days earlier, Charles Linstrum, 70, was killed in a house fire on the east side of the city.
  — Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 31 Jan. 2023
• Inside Bakhmut, gunshots echoed from the east side of the river that bisects the city.
  — Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2023
• Solon was named the top seed on the east side of Division I, and Olmsted Falls was the top seed of the west.
  — Joe Magill, cleveland, 29 Jan. 2023
• The crowd eventually walked back over to the east side and began to break up.
  — oregonlive, 27 Jan. 2023
• On Sunday night, her tent was the last one standing on the east side of Hampton Drive.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2023
• The city plans to demolish and reconstruct the east side of the span next year, followed by the west side in 2024.
  — Suzanne Baker, Chicago Tribune, 15 Nov. 2022
• The Monte Carlo was found on the east side of Indianapolis.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Nov. 2022
• Three economy garages, one on the airport's west side and two on the east side, charge $16 per day.
  — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 16 Dec. 2022
• Most recently, a coffee shop opened in the mill’s east end.
  — Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2023
• Last year, the group closed a busy second office in Cedar Rapids, on the east side of the state, after grant funds ran out.
  — Noah Weiland, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2023
• The Boat Show in the new I-X layout is located on the east side of the complex, instead of the west entrance.
  — D'arcy Egan, cleveland, 30 Dec. 2022
• The strongest winds will occur from Salem northward and on the east side of the Willamette Valley into the foothills of the Cascades.
  — oregonlive, 7 Feb. 2023
• But last month’s avalanche just north of the town of Lee Vining, on the Sierra’s east side, was different.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2023
• Henry-1 made a shore landing, picked up the four boaters and took them to safety at Lawson’s Landing on the east shore.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Nov. 2022
• The tow truck driver shot and killed the suspect who tried to rob him on Detroit's east side on Monday.
  — Sarah Rumpf, Fox News, 27 Dec. 2022
• The long, white root has a fresh, earthy flavor and is popular in east Asian cooking.
  — Lara Johnson-Wheeler, Vogue, 5 Jan. 2023
• Lord Davis Drive is located in the desirable east side of Avon.
  — Karen A. Avitabile, Hartford Courant, 23 Dec. 2022
• Tao and Ye both grew up in Zhejiang province, a coastal stretch in east China south of Shanghai.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
• Gordy hit it off with the ambitious Strong, who often walked to Gordy’s east side home to exchange song ideas.
  — Gary Graff, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2023

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east

3 of 3 noun

• The wind blew from the east.
• The city is framed by mountain ranges to the east and west.
• This summer has been unusually hot in the East.
• The wind at least was blowing east, away from the home.
  — Eric Lipton, New York Times, 5 May 2023
• The Subaru rolled across the guardrail and came to a stop on the road, facing east.
  — Hilary Matheson Daily Inter Lake, Kalispell, al, 5 June 2023
• Parking is available to the north and east of the library building.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 5 Sep. 2023
• The Ukrainian military aims to reclaim land in the south and east of the country.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
• The park is north of Interstate 30 and east of North Cooper Street.
  — Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
• Mostly cloudy skies clear nearer dawn, once the cold front has passed well to our east.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2023
• Lying flat on your back in an area away from lights and looking east should give you a good view of the sky.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 16 Nov. 2023
• There is a slight chance of light rain in the afternoon south and east of Washington.
  — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
• The track veered a little east of what was forecast, helping spare Los Angeles from the worst of the rain.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• On Monday, the system continues east and reaches the east coast by the evening hours.
  — Daniel Amarante, ABC News, 24 June 2023
• The property is located on the north and south side of Bankhead Parkway and east of Gaslight Way.
  — Scott Turner | , al, 25 July 2023
• The two ethnic groups have been clashing in the streets of Imphal in India’s east and elsewhere.
  — Sania Farooqui, CNN, 7 May 2023
• The same threat could carry on east into parts of the Southeast and Ohio Valley Wednesday.
  — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 23 Feb. 2024
• In two days, the Cascade Mountains, east of the big cities, received up to 10 inches of rain, Bower said.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2023
• For months, speculation built over when and how Ukraine’s forces would strike back across the front lines in the south and east of their country.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 11 June 2023
• El Niño causes the Pacific jet stream to move south and spread further east.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2023
• The wind decided to have a mind of its own that night and switched to a straight east, which allowed two different does to bust me.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 1 Nov. 2023
• Last Tuesday, three funerals were held at once for three men killed days apart in the country’s east.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
• Claiming 6th spot overall, Madrid ranks third in the world for quality of life and eighth place for east of settling in.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Confidence: Medium Odds of rain are down Tuesday as the front shifts to our south and east and sunshine makes a comeback.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
• Look for mostly cloudy skies and daytime highs in the mid-50s on the west side and upper 50s east of Sutro Tower on Friday and Saturday.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 May 2023
• Her San Diego childhood east of the new soccer-and-football stadium planted the seeds to the journeys to follow.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2023
• Most white-wing hunting in the United States takes place in Texas, although the birds do spread east and west during their migration.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
• At the same time, Ukrainian forces routed a series of Russian offensives in the country’s east.
  — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 27 June 2023
• In his bedroom there’s a large black and white picture, about a-foot-and-a-half tall and a yard wide, of the view from the corner outside the cafe looking east on Sunset Boulevard.
  — Steve Hochman, SPIN, 3 Jan. 2024
• The crash site was described as government property east of the air station.
  — CBS News, 28 Aug. 2023
• Weeks later, South Africa allowed warships from the Russian and Chinese navies to perform drills off its east coast.
  — Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 11 May 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024