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"East" in a Sentence (27 examples)
The professor gave a lecture on the Middle East.
The strong east wind lashed at our faces.
The South East region of England is densely populated.
It goes without saying that camels are very useful in the Middle East.
Speaking with reporters in Montreal, Canada, Walesa says the change of leadership in East Germany came about because the old guard leaders missed the train of history.
Fork-users are mainly in Europe, North America, and Latin America; chopstick-users in eastern Asia and finger-users in Africa, the Middle East, Indonesia, and India.
Forks were used for many years in Europe and the Near East, but only for cooking.
The fire, driven by an east wind, destroyed the center of the city.
There was an old castle to the east of the town.
The city lies east of London.
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Portsmouth is to the east of Southampton.
We live in the east of the country.
The sun rises in the east.
The levanter wind is in/from the east.
In a few hours the birds come to it from all points of the compass – east, west, north, and south […]
We, in the west, agreed amongst ourselves that a penitentiary should be erected with our half of the money arising as above stated; and the east agreed to improve the country in their vicinity with the other half.
A few [Anglican churches in South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland] are oriented other than due [geographic] east—St. Paul's, St. George's, and Prince George's parish churches face northeast and St. Andrew's, southeast. […] Throughout the book I refer directionally to the altar and chancel of St. Andrew's as situated at ecclesiastical east (to avoid overcomplicating matters), not geographical or magnetic southeast. Thus, the altar is located at the east end of the church, and the gallery, at the west.
However, in Mies' chapel, liturgical east is magnetic west.
The tapestry by Graham Sutherland that occupies the whole wall of the liturgical east and geographic north of the cathedral is recognisable to the point of visual exhaustion.
the east front of a cathedral
Throughout the book I refer directionally to the altar and chancel of St. Andrew's as situated at ecclesiastical east (to avoid overcomplicating matters), not geographical or magnetic southeast. Thus, the altar is located at the east end of the church, and the gallery, at the west.
The tapestry by Graham Sutherland that occupies the whole wall of the liturgical east and geographic north of the cathedral is recognisable […] a huge image of Christ on the [liturgical] east end, filling the entire wall and to be visible through the [liturgical] West Window (Fig. 24.2).
[…] I sat down and wrote, / In such a hand as when a field of corn / Bows all its ears before the roaring East; […]
Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within; uneasy rushes of wind went through the hall,[…]. East, West, North, and South, through the woods, four heavy-treading, unkempt figures crushed the high grass and cracked the branches, striding on cautiously to come together in the court-yard.
I remember a hearty welcome; a prodigious supper, which would have fed a whole village in the East; […]
¹⁰ In any event, Darius' visitors urged him to "establish the statute and sign the writing, in order for it not to be changed, according to the law of the Medes and the Persians, which is not annulled." (Daniel 6:8) In the ancient East, the will of a king was often regarded as absolute. This perpetuated the notion that he was infallible. Even a law that could cause the death of innocent people had to remain in effect!
The words may suggest that the Roman rite is in some way superior to those of the East: a fallacy now equally reprobated by Rome.
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