How to Use downstate in a Sentence

downstate

noun

• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• 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
• Two downstate counties – Massac and Vermilion – were added to the list of counties with positive cases.
  — Kevin Bessler, Washington Examiner, 2 Apr. 2020
• By the time of Wesselman's killing, Jones had moved downstate but frequently returned to the Chicago area to visit, authorities say.
  — Clifford Ward, Wheaton Glen Ellyn, 13 July 2017

Last Updated: 16 Aug 2024