eastward
Example Sentences
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The country sits on one of the most active tectonic boundaries in South America, where the Caribbean Plate is sliding eastward along the South American Plate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
During El Nino, trade winds weaken and atmospheric patterns shift across the tropical Pacific, allowing warm waters around Indonesia to spread eastward toward South America.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
Because those winds move eastward in the direction of the planet's rotation, they heat the evening region more strongly.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
But under the big open skies and cramped spaces of their eastward journey in a faulty car, traveling between what we glean is a tough past and a hoped-for future, we know something’s off.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
On three sides the woods pressed upon it; but eastward the ground fell steeply and the tops of the dark trees, growing at the bottom of the slope, were below their feet.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
