easterly

Examples

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• A strong area of high pressure overhead, coupled with warm easterly winds, has accelerated temperatures to several degrees above normal for the past few days, with more warmth slated for the weekend.

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• What we must avoid is getting too far north while still west of Tahiti, then finding easterly winds in our faces.

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• The shallow depression in the west of these islands... is likely to move slowly in a more easterly direction.

  Pygmalion (1938)

• This wind rose shows that for the next 60 days, the prevailing winds will blow from an easterly direction.

  The Fighting Seabees (1944)

• There were strong easterly winds the day Crotty saw the ants.

  Them! (1954)

• Easterly winds bring precipitation as low-pressure systems pass over open water in the Ross Sea.

  Academic text (1999)

• Meanwhile, an extensive easterly wind fetch had already resulted in piled-up sea waters along the Atlantic coast.

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• The Pequod beat an easterly course toward the whaling grounds off the Azores.

  Moby Dick (1956)

• On the seventeenth day, however, another storm—this time over the mid-Atlantic—brought easterly winds strong enough to drive the bottle from the current, and the bottle began to drift toward New England.

  Fiction book (1999)

• The warm, gentle easterly breeze made our picnic more enjoyable.

Synonyms

E

eastern

vseasterly

160 1.0

A wind or direction that comes from the east

is narrower and used specifically for winds or directions

E

east wind

vseasterly

1 1.8

A wind that blows from the east

is the adjective describing direction or origin rather than the wind itself

Antonyms

W

westerly

4 3.7

Coming from the west

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology