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How to use easterly in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun, adjective, adverb

Easterly means any persistent wind from the east (usually a broad current or belt of easterly winds). Example: “The village itself is built on a ridge above the harbour, rows of sturdy cottages over which spume is hurled by easterly gales.”

Examples of easterly by meaning

adjectiveComing from the east; originating in the east.

  • an easterly wind
  • an easterly breeze
  • The village itself is built on a ridge above the harbour, rows of sturdy cottages over which spume is hurled by easterly gales.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 337, about St Abbs

adjectiveFacing the east; directed towards the east.

  • an easterly course
  • an easterly voyage

adjectiveLocated towards or in the east.

  • the easterly side of the lake

More sentences with easterly

  • The ships would leave Europe in April, when there was a good easterly wind.1997, Mark Kurlansky, “Chapter 4: 1620: The Rock and the Cod”, in Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, Walker, →ISBN. From the entry sun
  • A bitter easterly breeze blew with a threat of oncoming winter.1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, chapter 13, in The Hobbit, Ballantine, published 1982, page 242. From the entry oncoming
  • Crossing the Sichuan basin, the Yangzi strides across succeeding provinces in an easterly direction, finally reaching the sea close to Shanghai.1990, Michael Loewe, “The Gifts of Nature and their Problems”, in The Pride that was China (Sidgwick & Jackson Great Civilizations…. From the entry Yangzi Jiang
  • The wind is easterly, The weather is beasterly.1936, Philological Papers - Volumes 1-3, page 68. From the entry beasterly
  • However, the cirrus blowoff from the top of the cumulonimbus clouds indicates an easterly component, or less of a westerly component, in the upper troposphere.1974, Skylab 4 Visual Observations Project Report, pages 12-4. From the entry blowoff
  • The northern zone is more or less expanded easterly from Luonan in Shensi into Honan from Kung in the north to Lushan in the south.1967, Journal of the Faculty of Science of the University of Tokyo: Geology, Minerology, Geography, Seismology, volume 16, →OCLC, page 449. From the entry Luonan
  • In the following two days, they made fast progress, strong easterly winds driving them down the Channel to where it opened out into the Atlantic; there, they were briefly becalmed.2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 214. From the entry becalm
  • Landsmen can seldom tell you the direction of the wind, unless it happens to be easterly and beasterly, neither is it any longer a matter of vital importance to seamen.1953, Basil Lubbock, The Last of the Windjammers - Volume 2, page 213. From the entry beasterly

Meaning of easterly

  1. noun Any persistent wind from the east (usually a broad current or belt of easterly winds).
  2. adjective Coming from the east; originating in the east.
  3. adjective Facing the east; directed towards the east.

Full definition of easterly

Questions about easterly in a sentence

How do you use easterly in a sentence?
Easterly is used as a noun, adjective and adverb. For example: “The village itself is built on a ridge above the harbour, rows of sturdy cottages over which spume is hurled by easterly gales.”
What is a short sentence with easterly?
“an easterly breeze”
What does easterly mean?
Easterly means any persistent wind from the east (usually a broad current or belt of easterly winds).

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