Eastern shore

noun

1. the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay, including parts of Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia.

Example Sentences

He said he had heard of a community of chimpanzees on the rugged eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika where an intrepid researcher might make valuable discoveries.

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Fraser came of age on Mercer Island, adjacent to Lake Washington’s eastern shore, across a heavily-trafficked pontoon bridge notorious for fatal crashes.

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The updates to California’s tsunami hazard areas followed a devastating tsunami in Japan in 2011, which was triggered by a magnitude 9.1 earthquake off the country’s eastern shore.

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But one training participant, a family physician from the Eastern Shore, said providing abortions makes her concerned for her physical safety and asked not to be identified.

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Officials said they are assessing whether pier protection needs to be improved on other Maryland bridges, particularly the Chesapeake Bay Bridge near Annapolis, which links Baltimore and Washington to Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

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