How to Use eastern in a Sentence

eastern

adjective

• They live in the eastern part of the state.
• Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, was the scene of some the fiercest fighting of the war.
  — Leila Sackur, NBC News, 18 June 2023
• On the eastern side of the mountains, air sinks and warms.
  — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
• From there, the drive to the eastern coast was only about 25 miles.
  — Regan Stephens, Travel + Leisure, 10 Sep. 2023
• The 2015 peace deal aimed at end the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 17 Feb. 2022
• One in 2017 caused widespread damage in the eastern part of the city.
  — CBS News, 23 Mar. 2022
• Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, has seen some of the bloodiest fighting of the war.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 14 May 2023
• Fomin, a 40-year-old whose pen name was Vladlen Tatarsky, was born in eastern Ukraine.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
• That includes much of the southern and eastern half of the country as well.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Oct. 2024
• The base is west of the city of Lviv, where thousands have fled amid heavy attacks in the eastern part of the country.
  — NBC News, 14 Mar. 2022
• Adding to the concern is the eastern side of the building, which abuts the nearby Amtrak line.
  — Racquel Bazos, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2025
• Only the eastern slopes of the mountains and the low desert are likely to be sunny.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2024
• Scientists have found the world’s largest deep-sea coral reef off the eastern coast of the United States.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 18 Jan. 2024
• Should be another nice view of the waning beaver moon and Jupiter in the eastern sky this evening.
  — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
• Wakefield is a town of around 5,000 in the eastern part of New Hampshire, near the Maine border.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 27 Dec. 2024
• Three to six inches can occur on the eastern sides of those [Great] Lakes.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2024
• The cemetery is also home to barn owls, great horn owls, and eastern screech owls.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 10 June 2024
• This allowed the fires to burn under hot, dry skies and the smoke from the fires to funnel into the eastern US.
  — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 6 June 2025
• The eastern half of North America was able to enjoy the eclipse during the middle of the night.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 16 May 2022
• Its troops have been slowly moving into the eastern outskirts of Rafah since the start of the month.
  — Fox News, 22 May 2024
• This year, though, storms and clouds are in the forecast that could obscure the view in the northern and eastern United States.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
• The Dust Bowl had dried out the agricultural eastern portion of the state.
  — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2024
• Jack Yancey, the sheriff in Izard County, said the eastern part of the county was hit pretty hard.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 8 Mar. 2022
• The city pitched two square no-truck signs along the road about 400 feet from the campus’ eastern edge in an attempt to shield the school from truck traffic.
  — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Apr. 2024
• Zelensky grew up in the Russian-speaking city of Kryvyi Rih, in the eastern part of Ukraine.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2022
• The clouds mainly painted the eastern sky, where their undersides were lit up as the sun neared the horizon.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
• Voting is now over in most of Indiana and in the eastern half of Kentucky.
  — ABC News, 5 Nov. 2024
• The fire, in the eastern part of the county, had charred 340 acres by 7 p.m., according to fire officials.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2025
• This is a plant native to the eastern USA that is one of the earliest widespread flowers of spring.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
• The first strike shut down the facility, which supplied Ukrainian troops in the central and eastern parts of the country, and damaged much of its infrastructure.
  — Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 15 June 2025