EAST in a Sentence
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146 example sentences for EAST, such as:
1. East is east, and west is west.
2. The wind shifted from east to north.
3. The principal range runs east to west.
4. You can't go north or east or south or west.
5. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
2. The wind shifted from east to north.
3. The principal range runs east to west.
4. You can't go north or east or south or west.
5. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
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Meanings and Examples of EAST
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east
ad. to, toward, or in the east
n. the countries of Asia
Classic Sentence: (83 in 6 pages)
1 It had become the crossroads of travel north and south and east and west, and the little village leaped to life.
2 Already Atlanta was full of refugees from east Tennessee, and the town had heard firsthand stories from them of what suffering they had gone through.
3 He assaulted the Yankees on the east, he assaulted them on the west.
4 His army was across the railroad to the east and he had cut the railroad running southwest to Alabama.
5 The flames seemed to be off to the east of the center of town.
6 You can't go north or east or south or west.
7 I wouldn't put anything beyond the swarm of buzzards that's swooping down on Georgia now from north, east, south and west.
8 When Carol had walked for thirty-two minutes she had completely covered the town, east and west, north and south; and she stood at the corner of Main Street and Washington Avenue and despaired.
9 Always, west of Pittsburg, and often, east of it, there is the same lumber yard, the same railroad station, the same Ford garage, the same creamery, the same box-like houses and two-story shops.
10 The waves, too, nodded their indolent crests; and across the wide trance of the sea, east nodded to west, and the sun over all.
11 Now this doubloon was of purest, virgin gold, raked somewhere out of the heart of gorgeous hills, whence, east and west, over golden sands, the head-waters of many a Pactolus flows.
12 Our white frame house, with a storey and half-storey above the basement, stood at the east end of what I might call the farmyard, with the windmill close by the kitchen door.
13 After that Dude and I went twice a week to the post-office, six miles east of us, and I saved the men a good deal of time by riding on errands to our neighbours.
14 At four o'clock Mr. Bushy, the postmaster, with another neighbour who lived east of us, stopped in to get warm.
15 When I came upon the Marshalls' delivery horse, tied in the shade, the girls had already taken their baskets and gone down the east road which wound through the sand and scrub.
Example Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1 I was born in Fort Worth but we moved around a lot and I was reared in east Texas.
2 The Changjiang River keeps rolling along toward the east.
3 The council house is planning to develop the area to the east of the town centre.
4 Travel east or travel west, a man's own home is still the best.
5 East is east, and west is west.
6 The prevailing current flows from east to west.
7 Stanley traversed the continent from west to east.
8 Terrestrial longitude is measured in degrees east or west of the Greenwich meridian.
9 The principal range runs east to west.
10 The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
11 A long cobbled street bisects the town from east to west.
12 The wind shifted from east to north.
13 The entire east wing of the building was demolished in the fire.
14 Following a determined resistance in the east, there was eventually a popular uprising in the capital.
15 Huge sums of private capital will be ploughed into the ailing industries of the east.