eastwards

[ UK /ˈiːstwədz/ ]
ADVERB
  1. toward the east
    they migrated eastward to Sweden
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How To Use eastwards In A Sentence

  • But a broader change is under way as the economic centre of gravity shifts eastwards.
  • Saturday will be a cloudier day with outbreaks of mainly light rain in western areas, spreading slowly eastwards, though many central and eastern areas should remain dry.
  • Speeding along the route of the ancient Silk Road, we passed between irrigated fields of melons, cabbages and sunflowers, part of the great oasis stretching eastwards from Tashkent.
  • The deep depression over the mid-Atlantic will gradually move eastwards during the day.
  • Separate ice fields also encroached from the North Sea, driving eastwards through what is now the Vale Of Pickering and covering much of the East Yorkshire plain, leaving the moors and wolds as isolated highlands.
  • As the cloud is moving off eastwards there are no rain clouds blocking its way so clear weather ensues. The Sun
  • During the 12th and 11th centuries BCE, Thracians settled not only on the peninsular mainland and the Mediterranean islands, but also moved south-eastwards into Asia Minor.
  • Note 1: Taken from the observations of Father Baudoin, a Recollet priest who accompanied French forces in their campaigns out of Placentia eastwards and northwards along the English Shore in 1696 and 1697. Gutenber-e Help Page
  • With a very moist air mass ahead of this from the Gulf of Mexico, an eastwards moving line of severe thunderstorms was generated across the Mississippi Valley. Weatherwatch: Blizzards in Bucharest, tornadoes in Arkansas
  • A contemporary Portuguese geographer recorded that Diaz realized ‘that the coast here turned northwards and north-eastwards towards Ethiopia under Egypt and on to the Gulf of Arabia, giving great hope of the discovery of India’.
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