How to Use downstate in a Sentence

downstate

noun
Definition of downstatenext
  • His sons expanded the business downstate, on one main street after another.
    — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2024
  • Glover is the poster child for the power of the downstate, Mednick says.
    — Diane Bellcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2022
  • The three men from downstate had eaten breakfast, and were watching the show.
    — John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 26 May 2018
  • This is why there’s a movement in New York for upstate to split from downstate.
    — Steve Kurtz, Fox News, 19 Mar. 2018
  • The Northeast Ohioan could look for a downstate running mate in order to build name ID.
    — Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Hardy, who was born in the Philippines and raised downstate in Springfield prepares throughout the week for the market.
    — Steve Zimmerman, chicagotribune.com, 14 Oct. 2019
  • The deep-draft barges that made the voyage downstate had to be parked well away, because the waters at the project site were far too shallow for them.
    — Lawrence Specker | [email protected], al, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The group which owns the Portland franchise includes about 10 persons, some of them from downstate.
    — oregonlive, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Sophia King, 4th, said the higher cost of living in the city than downstate makes the quicker bump necessary.
    — John Byrne, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2019
  • While the bill would increase electricity rates across the state, downstate would get slammed the hardest.
    — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 16 July 2021
  • Kuo writes that black morels appear in his area (downstate Illinois) when mayapples reach a height of 3 to 6 inches.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The budget proposal did clear the way for three new casinos in New York State, likely downstate.
    — New York Times, 18 Jan. 2022
  • In 2022, New York State approved the issuance of up to three downstate casino licenses.
    — Dana Rubinstein, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The small town of Coroga, New York, has already seen an influx of visitors from downstate.
    — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 24 Apr. 2020
  • Kevin relocated downstate, got a job, got married and had a child.
    — John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2018
  • Earlier in the day, Amelia Love walked up and down the aisle and handed out snacks to the 40-or-so people who boarded a bus that stopped in Portage and Merrillville to go downstate.
    — Becky Jacobs, Post-Tribune, 20 Jan. 2018
  • The investigation went overt five months later with a series of raids in the Chicago area and downstate.
    — Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Rest would be found by the prince in downstate Dwight where a hunting excursion was organized on his behalf.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2023
  • Temperatures are likely to creep into the 50s later in the week, and perhaps up into the 70s downstate.
    — Joseph Spector, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2018
  • When listing counties by infection rate, two of the five highest are downstate.
    — Fox News, 28 Apr. 2020
  • Also punching his ticket downstate for Vernon Hills was junior Patrick Sear, who was second in the pole vault (13-6).
    — Steve Reaven, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2018
  • For drummer Matt Wilson, who grew up downstate in Knoxville, Sandburg was a constant presence.
    — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 29 Aug. 2017
  • Under the state’s program, the biggest plans call for building utility-grade solar farms, many of them downstate.
    — Robert McCoppin, chicagotribune.com, 6 Sep. 2019
  • When the time was right, Thornton would divert the water from the Cache la Poudre River that irrigated that farmland, put it in a pipeline and send it downstate.
    — David Gelles, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Several friends spoke about attending a rock concert planned downstate in a month.
    — Ray San Fratello, orlandosentinel.com, 20 July 2019
  • That means seven of the top eight sectional finishers for the Trevians are aiming for what the team had hoped would be another trip downstate.
    — Michael Wojtychiw, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2020
  • From Marquette, Garland returned downstate for a two-year stint as an assistant coach at Detroit Cody.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 9 June 2022
  • So women protesting peacefully for the right to control their own health downstate looks like an insurrection to you?
    — Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2022
  • Substantial portions of both these hikes are the result of wasteful investments in new gas pipes, and downstate N.Y. can expect larger hikes in the future.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 14 May 2024
  • The Indians were set to play downstate power Granite City in a bracket championship, but it was canceled due to weather.
    — Steve Millar, Daily Southtown, 3 May 2017

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