EASTERN in a Sentence

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Julie Wall, a cashier in eastern England, had eight thousand of them - practically every song the legendary star ever released.

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 Meanings and Examples of EASTERN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
eastern
 a.  lying toward or situated in the east
 a.  from the east; used especially of winds
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  Under the open sky the light was still clear, with a reflection of cold red on the eastern hills.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  Her husband was a gentleman and a man of some means; but to India, born in Georgia and reared in Virginia traditions, anyone not from the eastern seaboard was a boor and a barbarian.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
3  Directly on the shore of the lake, and nearer to its western than to its eastern margin, lay the extensive earthen ramparts and low buildings of William Henry.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
4  When, however, they gained the flattened surface of the mountain-top, and approached the eastern precipice, she recognized the spot to which she had once before been led under the more friendly auspices of the scout.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
5  "He is come," repeated Magua, bending his head with the dignity of an eastern prince.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28
6  An impending splendor could be seen in the eastern sky.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
7  As the sun rose slowly above the eastern horizon, the caps of the great mountains lit up one after the other, like lamps at a festival, until they were all ruddy and glowing.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
8  She leant back to obtain more thorough rest, and the soft eastern portion of the sky was as great a relief to her eyes as the thyme was to her head.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian
9  She watched the growth of the faint radiance appearing in the sky by the eastern hill, till presently the edge of the moon burst upwards and flooded the valley with light.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 1 The Inevitable Movement Onward
10  As the eastern sky grew brighter, and the light of the day came on and its vivid colouring returned upon the world once more, I scanned the view keenly.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
11  We possessed a house in Geneva, and a campagne on Belrive, the eastern shore of the lake, at the distance of rather more than a league from the city.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
12  The Alps here come closer to the lake, and we approached the amphitheatre of mountains which forms its eastern boundary.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
13  Here and there, some early lamps were seen to twinkle in the distant city; and in the eastern quarter of the sky the lurid light still hovered.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 46. INTELLIGENCE
14  This state of excitement kept on for some little time; and at last we saw before us the Pass opening out on the eastern side.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
15  Thus the coastguard on duty on the eastern side of the harbour, who at once ran down to the little pier, was the first to climb on board.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  A century ago, eastern Germany was an agricultural hinterland.
2  A consortium plans to build a natural-gas pipeline from Russia to supply eastern Germany.
3  The wild card in the picture is eastern Europe.
4  It's in the underdeveloped eastern region of the country that the biggest problems exist.
5  More funds are needed to establish trade missions in eastern Europe.
6  It's in the poorer, underdeveloped eastern region of the country that the biggest problems exist.
7  Thousands were killed on the eastern front.
8  The river marks the eastern perimeter of our land.
9  High levels of nitrate occur in eastern England because of the heavy use of fertilizers.
10  Political changes in eastern Europe opened the floodgates to thousands of people who wished to emigrate.
11  The lake is situated at the eastern extremity of the mountain range.
12  Julie Wall, a cashier in eastern England, had eight thousand of them - practically every song the legendary star ever released.
13  One might say that eastern Congo is already in anarchy, but Congo has faded from the headlines in recent months.
14  An Australian-administered island in the eastern Indian Ocean south of Java. It was annexed by Great Britain in1888 and came under Australian sovereignty in1958.
15  And of course it is your experience in Indonesia that inspired your film eastern moon.