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due east

NOUN
  1. the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees

How To Use due east In A Sentence

  • I had taken Jason to the Roseland headland in the Fal estuary by the green-painted East Narrows navigation buoy - due east and one mile from the docks.
  • The "Big Lake" is so called in contra‑distinction to the Little Lake, which lies due East from it fifty miles, and which has been described in a former chapter. Life in the Rocky Mountains
  • If you were to drive due east of the warm, coastal snowbird capital of Fort Myers, Florida, you'd soon find yourself in the midst of a sprawling grid of unadorned streets and quarter-acre lots collectively known as Lehigh Acres. Raymond Schillinger: Lehigh Acres, Florida: A Parable of the American Dream Gone Bust
  • The road into Mountain Province, due east of Tamarong, zigzagged along a sharp ridge high above the rice terraces.
  • Now they fared over that neck somewhat east, making but slow way because the ground was so broken and rocky; and in another hour's space Sure-foot led down-hill due east to where the stony neck sank into another desolate miry heath still falling toward the east, but whose further side was walled by a rampart of crags cleft at their tops into marvellous-shapes, coal-black, ungrassed and unmossed. The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale
  • From here, you go due east until you get to a forest.
  • The road into Mountain Province, due east of Tamarong, zigzagged along a sharp ridge high above the rice terraces.
  • Your observing site should have a low horizon just to the north of due east.
  • We left the depot near Streaky Bay, at a course nearly due east, and passing through alternations of brush and of open grassy plains, upon the skirts of which grew a few casuarinae; halted after a stage of eighteen miles, at an opening in the brush, where we had good grass, but no water; we were consequently obliged to watch the horses during the night, to prevent their straying. Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
  • He leveled off on the top of the clouds at 4500 feet and headed due east.
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