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.

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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’.
When he sent weather balloons high into the atmosphere he was surprised to find them blown away by powerful high-altitude winds sweeping eastwards. Times, Sunday Times
On Wednesday, a line of supercell thunderstorms moved eastwards over Germany and Austria, then continued across the Czech Republic and Poland overnight. Weatherwatch: global round-up
Finally, I drove eastwards towards Sheppey, past Funton Creek, where reptilian glasswort plants replenish seed-stocks for hungry wildfowl, to Bedlam's Bottom to enjoy a glowing sunset.
The most usual track of these disturbances is across the West Indian islands, after which they curve north or northeastwards.
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.
I have the misfortune of catching a number 21 service heading eastwards at least four times a month, at the exact time when all the schools are emptying.
Further, due to changing environmental flow pattern, the system (Phet) would move slowly in a northwesterly/northerly direction for next 24 hours and cross Oman coast by tomorrow (June 4) morning," they said, adding, "It would then weaken gradually, recurve northeastwards and emerge into north Arabian Sea by June 5 and move towards Pakistan coast. The Times of India
A two-storey semi-circular arc of accommodation embraces a green public space which looks south-eastwards over the river to the endless landscape.
Moving eastwards, we come to Germany which, in all honesty, I know very little about.
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.
Heavy rain sweeping eastwards across the south. The Sun
Geometry dominates, for the axial symmetry of the Barry building is extended 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.
An as he skellied intae the white bleeze, a troop o droid surveillance puggies advanced in heelstergowdie formation alang the corridor roof, skited by owre his heid an wi a clatter o mettalic cleuks, skittered awa eastwards doon the shadowy vennel. Archive 2004-09-01
These colonization directions included: (i) southwestwards, with a relatively gradual range expansion during suitable periods in Western Europe; and (ii) northeastwards, with a more irregular expansion in Central and Eastern Europe. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
They were flying steadily eastwards, deeper into enemy territory.
The area is drained by several major rivers: the Welland and the Nene which flow north-eastwards to the Wash; the Avon running south-westwards to join the Severn; and the Sence running north to join the Trent.
The slab of crust containing the deposit and its assemblage of vent fossils was then translated northeastwards on the Farallon Plate and accreted to its present location.
With a last glance at the unhappy man to whom I had grown attached in a way during our time of joint captivity and trial, I took the arm of the old Hottentot, or rather leant upon his shoulder, for at first I felt too weak to walk by myself, and picked my path with him through the stones and skeletons of elephants across the plateau eastwards, that is, away from the lake. The Ivory Child
I think at this point she turned around and headed eastwards, towards home, towards safety.
This track is shaped like a rounded cone, or, more often, like a boomerang, with a short arm running north-westwards to its place of turning and a long arm running northeastwards until its force is spent. Plotting in Pirate Seas
The jet stream is a ribbon of fast wind a few miles high that sweeps eastwards around the globe. Times, Sunday Times
Early in the week, patchy rain will slowly clear southeastwards to allow some drier, brighter weather. Times, Sunday Times
It has been suggested that a central authority should construct huge reservoirs on the Ganga and Brahmaputra and link these two mighty rivers with canals, thereby diverting surplus waters south-eastwards into the Mahanadi.
A weakening front will bring a spell of rain southeastwards midweek, followed by a dip in temperatures. Times, Sunday Times
I manoeuvred the heavy horsebox carefully through the small village and set off northeastwards on the road over the Downs, retracing the way I had come from London. Forfeit
The lunar shadow will fall in the Algerian Sahara at 0640 GMT before flitting northeastwards. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Approximately 3,000 red lechwe (Kobus leche), move eastwards from Liuwa Plain to the Zambezi floodplain in the dry season. Western Zambezian grasslands
The extension eastwards, which is given in map E. with this chapter, took place chiefly during the fourteenth century when Rouen was rapidly growing to be the second town in the kingdom. The Story of Rouen
That shot from the footplate supposedly heading eastwards was quite definitely taken travelling in the opposite direction.
Overtaken by events, he began pressing for guarantees that NATO would not absorb East Germany or expand eastwards.
On 19th January 1991, crude oil from five bombed oil tankers moored off the Mina Al-Ahmadi oil terminal and nearby oil pipelines in Kuwait produced a slick extending south-eastwards over 1,500 km².
Today the rain should clear northeastwards with showers following. Times, Sunday Times
The 74-year-old space is open again after a two-year-long project to move it south-eastwards by 66 metres and to completely redecorate it.
Eastwards, a Permian terrane of greywacke sandstone becomes progressively more highly metamorphosed to become schist which forms the Southern Alps contained within Mount Aspiring National Park. Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand
The next few days look quiet, with cloud spilling southeastwards and patchy rain. Times, Sunday Times
P. cembra, the Swiss stone pine, has a range which extends eastwards from the Alps; and P. gerardiana is a native of the Himalayas.
But their progress eastwards has tended to be blocked by high pressure over Europe. Times, Sunday Times
They either moved lock, stock and barrel, or expanded their operations eastwards. Times, Sunday Times
The 30 day the winde Southeast, they wayed, and set saile to the Northeastwards: but the ship fell so on the side to the shorewards, that they were forced eftsoones to take in their saile, and ancre againe, from whence they neuer remoued her. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
The cramped dock area began to expand eastwards across the newly exposed terrain.
Over the weekend rain will move southeastwards. Times, Sunday Times
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.
The cramped dock area began to expand eastwards across the newly exposed terrain.
Also, a deep low over the Tasman Sea is expected to move southeastwards past Fiordland and Southland overnight, forcing a strong northwesterly flow across much of the South Island. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
The lonely wanderer followed the terrace path eastwards and quickly crossed the old bridge over the River Burien.
The Marlstone Rock Bed is a distinctive limestone unit that outcrops from Lyme Regis on the Dorset coast of southern England, north-eastwards to just west of Hull near the North Sea coast.
The hospital was endowed with meadow-land stretching eastwards to the river.
He slid the metal tube into the inside pocket of his anorak, then set off eastwards along the riverside path. Times, Sunday Times
After another gate, continue to a stream before climbing north-eastwards up the steep slopes of Compass Hill, whose iron content plays havoc with the compass.
It will move eastwards across Britain today and tomorrow, bringing more torrential rain and powerful winds. Times, Sunday Times
The Okavango River is quite unique in that it is the only perennial river in Africa that flows eastwards without reaching the ocean.
This fence has prevented the eastwards migration of large mammals such as kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) to the eastern Sperregebiet after times of good rain when this area becomes a lush grassland. Succulent Karoo
Eastwards the ridge opened out in a series of bumps, dips and peaks, more like a small range of mountains than one single hill.
And beyond the vale, eastwards and northwards, Catherine looked out upon a wild sea of moors wrapped in mists, sullen and storm-beaten, while to the left the clouds hung deepest and inkiest over the high points of the Ullswater mountains. Robert Elsmere
An active cold front swept heavy rain and mountain snow eastwards on Friday with strong winds and blustery, wintry showers between sunny spells yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
They continued southeastwards, avoiding towns and roads, until reaching the war zone. Times, Sunday Times
This river of wind blows around the world a few miles high, speeding up and slowing down as it heads eastwards. Times, Sunday Times
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.
A web of rivers flowed eastwards from the Drakensberg mountains to the sea.
After a mild night, tomorrow looks rather wet as another rain band sweeps southeastwards. Times, Sunday Times
But from Wigan Road eastwards towards Chorley, no such signs exist and as the road used to be of the national speed limit, viz. 60 mph, many motorists tend to drive at that speed.
The little finger represents the Keweenaw Peninsula, jutting out northeastwards into Lake Superior. Strange Maps
As most of the land in these states drains eastwards, they were assigned to the eastern subregion in Table 1.
Descend south-eastwards, down the steep heather slopes, taking a route on the western side of the burn.
Dolly droned on steadily southeastwards, ig and there was very little to relieve the boredom of the flight. The Seventh Scroll
It was 4am when we pulled out of the harbour and headed eastwards towards our first dive site.
Tuesday will see a band of rain sweep eastwards, followed by showers. Times, Sunday Times
The current sets strongly eastwards.
The change was due to a rather insignificant cold front and upper trough crossing the western sub-continent and shifting whatever lay ahead of it eastwards.
They either moved lock, stock and barrel, or expanded their operations eastwards. Times, Sunday Times
Certainly, as he stared out eastwards, Ramsay could perceive no signs of alarm or even movement in town or beyond.
The week ended on a milder note with fronts bringing rain southeastwards. Times, Sunday Times
Variations in flow of the Gulf Stream system and in transport of warm Atlantic water across the Wyville-Thomson Ridge northeastwards (via the North Cape Current) affect the areal extent of ice in the Barents Sea. Scientific Blogging
Frontal systems associated with depressions traveling eastwards across the ocean have a significant influence on the weather in southern South Australia during this season.
Following the creek eastwards from the ranch, it widens into a large but shallow wetland whose clear water is splashed with islands of lily pads and dense clusters of cat tails.
Of inventions which proved to have major significance, only the lens and clockwork travelled in the opposite direction, eastwards across Eurasia.
Snow became a feature from midweek as an area of low pressure eased eastwards. Times, Sunday Times
These islands are of volcanic origin and are supposed to have formed over a "hot spot" in the Earth's crust and then subsequently moved eastwards as the Nazca Plate has been subducted beneath the South American continent. Juan Fernández Islands temperate forests
John Oxenham, in the _Bear_ frigate, could sail "Eastwards towards Tolu, to see what store of victuals would come athwart his halse. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
Worth a look the next time you're walking eastwards up on the north side of the market, the Fox and Anchor is in Charterhouse Street before it opens out into the square. On the Tiles
The deep depression over the mid-Atlantic will gradually move eastwards during the day.
All morning they made their way southeastwards down the strait between Canada and the United States, taking continuous bearings through the periscope, keeping a running plot at the chart table and altering course many times. On The Beach
This compositional change is associated with the incision of the rivers that flowed eastwards from the West Midlands.
The cramped dock area began to expand eastwards across the newly exposed terrain.
[130] III shifted [its course] and went southeastwards from The History of the Former Han Dynasty
The River Tigris rises in Turkey and flows south-eastwards for 1200 miles, before merging with the Euphrates and eventually flowing into the Persian Gulf.
Outside his church of St Sophia an equestrian statue showed Justinian in military costume, pointing his hand eastwards.
The Yangtze River rolls on eastwards.
Snow became a feature from midweek as an area of low pressure eased eastwards. Times, Sunday Times
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.
According to IMD, the depression would further weaken and move east-northeastwards and cross Pakistan coast. Daily News & Analysis
The ship continued sailing eastwards.
It will move eastwards across Britain today and tomorrow, bringing more torrential rain and powerful winds. Times, Sunday Times
The fireball was first detected by Western's camera systems at an altitude of 100km, and moving southeastwards at 20.8 km/s. Pictures and Videos Capture Canadian Fireball from Sept. 25, 2009 | Universe Today
It will move eastwards across Britain today and tomorrow, bringing more torrential rain and powerful winds. Times, Sunday Times
Another twin-bore tunnel is being cut eastwards from Stratford to Dagenham.
From midweek, showery rain is set to spread northeastwards. Times, Sunday Times
An as he skellied intae the white bleeze, a troop o droid surveillance puggies advanced in heelstergowdie formation alang the corridor roof, skited by owre his heid an wi a clatter o mettalic cleuks, skittered awa eastwards doon the shadowy vennel. Archive 2004-09-01
At mag 1.4, Mars is between Castor and Pollux in brightness and improves to mag 1.3 by the month's end as it draws closer and tracks eastwards into Cancer. Starwatch: the September night sky
Some trucks with equipment and a few dozen soldiers from several posts headed eastwards.
Turn right here, over a stile in the hedgerow, and bear north-eastwards across the pasture to the next stile in 250 yards.
A cyclogenesis system is moving far north of the UK and is expected to pass over Ireland as it moves slowly eastwards towards Iceland.
Those storms are expected to move southeastwards across Wales through Sunday, bringing another 40mm 1.5in of downpours on hills. BBC News - Home
The shift eastwards in global economic power has become a commonplace of political discourse.
Eyre thought he was hemmed in by a circular or horse-shoe-shaped salt depression, which he called Lake Torrens; because, wherever he tried to push northwards, north-westwards, eastwards, or north-eastwards, he invariably came upon the shores of one of these objectionable and impassable features. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
Tropical cyclone ‘Bobby’ carried copious amounts of rainfall south-eastwards across the desert areas of Western Australia in February 1995.
Thus the proto-Thames once rose in the West Midlands and carried Welsh volcanic clasts southeastwards across the Middle Jurassic outcrops into the present west-east-striking valley in south Oxfordshire.
Rain in the northwest moved quickly southeastwards, followed by fresher and more showery conditions. Times, Sunday Times
Around that time there was an eastwards migration of peasants into the territories east of the Elbe.
Weakening fronts spread southeastwards this weekend, introducing fresher air from the north. Times, Sunday Times
They were pressing on eastwards towards the city's small airfield.
The British had subjugated large parts of India, bringing, it was thought, some forty million people under their rule, and the Russians were pushing south-eastwards overland into Central Asia.
The frontal system will slowly take its rain eastwards today to be followed by sunshine and showers. Times, Sunday Times
Some 40,000 years before, their remote ancestors had crossed the then land bridge across what is now the Bering Straits and gradually migrated by land and water eastwards along the Arctic coast.
Eastwards, a Permian terrane of greywacke sandstone becomes progressively more highly metamorphosed to become schist which forms the Southern Alps contained within Mount Aspiring National Park. Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand
Over the centuries, the topography altered as the lagoon slowly migrated south-eastwards.
Here and there, from their bases, dark wooded spurs ran out across the rising valley, and the road wound round them, in and out, and up and down, and over stone bridges big and little, and then up in terribly steep ascent, southeastwards to high Laviano, looking towards the pass by which the highway leads from Ciliento to Basilicata. Taquisara
Walking eastwards will take you back to the pier.
The view eastwards was towards Mozambique. Times, Sunday Times
Head eastwards across the grassy plateau to Ben Tirran, keeping an eye out for the birds that inhabit Scotland's high moorlands - curlew, ptarmigan, skylarks singing as they rise and, if you're lucky, the shy dotterel.
Eastwards, the basalt flows become thinner and interfinger with red lacustrine or sabkha siltstones deposited in the deeper parts.
A band of heavy rain will sweep eastwards tomorrow, along with strong winds. The Sun
The bullion then entered the money stock of other countries, as with the British sovereign made of Brazilian gold, or was shipped eastwards to pay for Asian or Baltic imports.
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.
For over an hour they tracked the leviathan on its journey -eastwards, their faces warmed by the rising sun. AMAGANSETT
These lows typically track north-eastwards, reaching maximum intensity in the vicinity of the Aleutian Islands in the Pacific Ocean and in the vicinity of Iceland in the Atlantic Ocean.
He slid the metal tube into the inside pocket of his anorak, then set off eastwards along the riverside path. Times, Sunday Times
The deep depression over the mid-Atlantic will gradually move eastwards during the day.
Men worked on road gangs, though before long labour shortages led Ottawa to encourage them to move eastwards to Central Canadian manufacturing plants.
As the cloud is moving off eastwards there are no rain clouds blocking its way so clear weather ensues. The Sun
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.
This spread eastwards to affect the whole island and has left a haunting legacy of late medieval conventual ruins.
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.
We set off eastwards along the valley following the line of the mountains.
Shan-yü summoned reinforcements, while Li Ling led his men southeastwards, towards the Chinese border, fighting as he went, always beating off overwhelming numbers and inflicting severe punishment upon the Huns. The History of the Former Han Dynasty
They either moved lock, stock and barrel, or expanded their operations eastwards. Times, Sunday Times
ivan, i am sure you have realised that the majority of the crowds go 'eastwards'. we go kinda 'westwards'" that's one of the reasons why i never mention to friends any of these stuff i have seen cos 'the chances of them knowing it is SLIM. so anyway, that's all the hit me today. got to get back to some revision. drawn at 17: 00 Overthefence Diary Entry
The broad expanse of water between the Leopard and the cape showed far more white than green; and inshore, where there had been smooth water not half an hour ago, there was the ugly appearance of a tide-rip, a long narrow stretch of pure white that raced eastwards from the headland and that must grow longer, broader, and fiercer by far as the tide reached its full flow. Archive 2006-12-01
Next day he found that the other track joined the lower road only about half a league to northeastwards. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire
Senchan then spoke to his pupils to know which of them would go into the countries of _Letha_ to learn the _Táin_ which the _Sai_ had taken 'eastwards' after the An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800
The Greek empire stretched from Greece eastwards so it's part of that tradition.
A faint track takes you north-eastwards until the main track which leads back to the car park and refreshments!
True, the distribution may have shifted eastwards since the Kyoto protocol – but that is partly because the west increasingly imports its manufactured goods. Global warming: Bleaker and bleaker | Editorial
From this circle an avenue of stones leads north-eastwards towards the river for 88m.
After another gate, continue to a stream before climbing north-eastwards up the steep slopes of Compass Hill, whose iron content plays havoc with the compass.
Another would extend eastwards through Afghanistan and Pakistan and terminate near the Indian border.
Rain in the northwest moved quickly southeastwards, followed by fresher and more showery conditions. Times, Sunday Times
Jerusalem, 'and our own' going up to London, 'always figured a journey eastwards, that is, directed towards the Euphrates or Tigris, or to any part of Asia from Greece as tending _upwards_. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
The Sassanians expanded eastwards to incorporate into their state the northern part of the disintegrating Kushan empire.

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