How to Use eastward in a Sentence

eastward

1 of 2 adverb or adjective
  • The die-off spread eastward through the year.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 Dec. 2025
  • That cold air mass will also move eastward.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
  • The storm will spread eastward through the morning hours.
    — Cbs Baltimore Staff, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Later in the week, the rain and storms will spread eastward.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 25 Nov. 2025
  • The storm spreads eastward through the morning hours.
    — Kaicey Baylor, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The storm spreads eastward through the morning hours.
    — Cutter Martin, CBS News, 30 Nov. 2025
  • The heat dome will flex its muscles eastward over the next few days.
    — Chris Dolce, CNN Money, 20 Mar. 2026
  • These will sweep eastward a few spots could briefly get wet through early evening.
    — David Streit, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
  • When heading eastward, sit on the right side of the train for the best views.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 21 Mar. 2023
  • As the system spins its way eastward, the smoke is also likely to shift to the east.
    — Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 28 June 2023
  • Sellers said the severe hail threats died down with the first line of storms as the system moved eastward.
    — Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • In the early hours of the fire, moderate winds fanned it eastward along the highway.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Concerns about climate change have scuttled plans for pipelines to bring it eastward.
    — Naureen S. Malik, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2022
  • For changes going eastward of six hours or more, red-eyes can be helpful if your child manages to fall asleep on the plane.
    — Sherri Gordon, Parents, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The region was once again put in the path of severe weather as cold front moved eastward across Texas.
    — Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Some traders are sending gas eastward through pipelines to Ukraine, which has spare storage.
    — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2022
  • This trend will continue eastward.
    — Cutter Martin, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The storms are expected to push eastward through the afternoon and into the overnight hours.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 16 Feb. 2023
  • But as the storm evolved those tracks began to shift eastward and toward the Alabama coast.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 16 Sep. 2022
  • As for the storm’s timing, snow is already falling in the metro and spreading eastward across the region.
    — Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2026
  • This threat will then push eastward and stretch into the Midwest on Monday.
    — Kyle Reiman, ABC News, 25 Apr. 2026
  • There’s a storm system to our south that is going to continue to move eastward over the next 24 hours.
    — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Protesters knocked over a dumpster to try and block the street off from the line of officers moving eastward.
    — Kyla Guilfoil, NBC news, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The cold front continues to push eastward tonight into Wednesday.
    — Rachael Jay, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Winds will continue to push the smoke eastward, bringing a smoky haze to the Northeast early in the week.
    — Caitlin Kaiser, CNN, 16 July 2023
  • When the warm pool's water shifts eastward, that also shifts where the rising and sinking motions happen.
    — CBS News, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Winds of around 100 miles per hour drove the flames eastward and blocked critical aerial support.
    — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 30 June 2026
  • From there, a triangle stretches eastward to form the lion's hindquarters.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The spacecraft also had to make do with fewer engines, but kept heading eastward 120 miles up.
    — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2026
  • Warm water is pushed eastward and suppresses colder water from rising to the surface.
    — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 1 June 2026

eastward

2 of 2 noun
  • They are used in packing salt to the mills on the river, from the marshes lying in the deserts, some sixty miles to the eastward.
    — Dan Schlenoff, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2021
  • In the first phase, long cracks appeared along the ice flow, gradually extending eastward.
    — Ritsuko Kawai, Wired News, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The plumes are expected to rapidly move eastwards, the IMD added.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Kharkiv residents know that the offensive pushing eastward could bring more attacks.
    — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022
  • According to forecasters an area of high pressure centered to the west of the area will continue to build eastward.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 26 July 2023
  • People should lie flat on their back with their feet facing eastward and look up, noting that the eyes should be given about 30 minutes to adapt to the dark.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The smoke began clearing out of the city Monday as flow from the Pacific Ocean began to push the haze eastward.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • There are at least 4,500 black bears in Massachusetts, and their range is expanding eastward.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
  • When the early Russian traders first reached Unalaska, they were told by the natives that to the eastward was a great land or territory.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Conditions are expected to improve by Sunday as the cold front responsible for the severe weather pushed eastwards.
    — Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Sometimes this sheet expanded eastward to merge with the other, but in warmer times the glaciers parted, opening the Ice-Free Corridor.
    — Michael Ray Taylor, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2025
  • Work should begin this spring or summer on extending the Little Miami Scenic Trail eastward.
    — Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
  • Abusin is one such case, with the Sudanese FA official recalling the panic and scramble eastwards which the early stages of the civil war brought about.
    — Rory Fleming, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
  • There will be no more inching ever-eastward for NATO—the sort of reckless expansionism that helped sparked this conflict in the first place.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Though China's president is no fashion guru, his policies are defining a new eastward-looking luxury goods industry worldwide.
    — James B. Cutchin, latimes.com, 30 June 2019
  • But everyone in the greater region from the Interstate 81 corridor eastward should monitor forecasts.
    — Washington Post, 6 July 2021
  • Iran has also been reminding its people that looking eastward is the right path toward economic revival as prospects of returning to nuclear agreement fade, said Parsi.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 17 Feb. 2023
  • In the late 19th century, when the Russian Empire started building rail lines to expand eastward, Yimianpo was a key stop.
    — NPR, 19 Nov. 2025
  • The research suggests that the cavemen migrated eastwards from Europe to Siberia and indicated that their ancestors might be an as-yet-undiscovered group.
    — Fox News, 26 June 2019
  • Tornadoes, wind gusts up to 70 mph, hail and heavy rain will all be possible on Thursday, starting as soon as late morning in west Alabama and pushing eastward through the nighttime hours.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 15 Feb. 2023
  • With a latitude of 5 degrees, favorable weather conditions and the possibility to launch both north and eastward, Kourou ticked all the boxes for an operational spaceport.
    — Karlijn Korpershoek, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2023
  • Instead, their ancestors struck out, likely on floating mats of algae and other debris, and were carried by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current eastward.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2016
  • As the comet neared its closest approach, its direction of origin would have meant that its motion in the sky began to accelerate eastwards, not westwards, fast enough to begin to counter Earth's rotation in the opposite direction.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Too much big-booster production and other key space manufacturing infrastructure is consolidating eastward.
    — Craig Hooper, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025
  • Fisher says plenty of Norwegian media made the journey eastwards to speak to him, wanting explanations for the athletes who had beaten Ingebrigtsen in consecutive years.
    — Liam Tharme, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The system moving eastward has already hit parts of the Midwest, which saw heavy snow and limited visibility in places like Iowa, where about 50 cars were involved in a pileup Monday morning.
    — Amir Vera, CNN, 10 Dec. 2019
  • In Communist times, labor camps, heavy investment in remote industrial sites and the construction of a second railroad across Siberia and the Far East revived the eastward flow of people.
    — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 14 July 2016
  • The blaze ignited Thursday afternoon near Lake Piru and quickly expanded eastward, fueled by triple-digit temperatures, dry vegetation, and light winds.
    — Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Same mechanism, different outcomes Until now, scientists thought Jupiter’s eastward and Neptune’s westward winds were caused by completely different processes.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 2025
  • From central London, the trains will continue eastwards, passing through Canary Wharf, with its cluster of skyscrapers, and heading out to stations deep in the county of Essex -- a total journey of over 60 miles.
    — Jim Boulden, CNN, 22 Dec. 2017

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