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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Lesser amounts of rain are forecast in eastern and southeastern parts of the state.
    — Remington Miller, Arkansas Online, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The two had met in the 1980s, working on lawsuits filed by the families of coal miners killed on the job in eastern India.
    — Lauren Frayer, NPR, 2 June 2024
  • Air raid alerts blared across eastern and central Ukraine on Friday.
    — Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Most Ukrainians wished to join the alliance, but many in eastern and southern Ukraine remained against it.
    — Anton Grushetskyi, Foreign Affairs, 30 Dec. 2024
  • There’s a faucet on the eastern end of the campground where water from the creek is piped, but upon my arrival, the trough where the water came out was covered in thick green algae.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025

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