EAST in a Sentence

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For EAST, below is one of 146 sentences:
The waves, too, nodded their indolent crests; and across the wide trance of the sea, east nodded to west, and the sun over all.

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 Meanings and Examples of EAST
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east
 n.  point of the horizon where the sun rises
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
3  He assaulted the Yankees on the east, he assaulted them on the west.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
4  His army was across the railroad to the east and he had cut the railroad running southwest to Alabama.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  The flames seemed to be off to the east of the center of town.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
6  You can't go north or east or south or west.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
7  I wouldn't put anything beyond the swarm of buzzards that's swooping down on Georgia now from north, east, south and west.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
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.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
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.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
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.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
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.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
14  At four o'clock Mr. Bushy, the postmaster, with another neighbour who lived east of us, stopped in to get warm.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
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.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
Example Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
16  The developer requested a variance to build a shopping center on the east side of town.
17  The real danger is civil unrest in the east of the country.
18  The building points to the east.
19  The army made many conquests in the east.
20  Spain is bounded on the east by Portugal.
21  The land is barren on the east coast.
22  The field slopes to the east.
23  The pass gets quite narrow towards the east.
24  Half of those who went east seem to have landed up in southern India.
25  I was warned against/off going to the east coast because it was so full of tourists.
26  A gale was blowing from the east.
27  He lived on the east coast of the United States.
28  The river flowed to the east.
29  They live in a town along the east coast.
30  The sun rises in the east.