How to Use statewide in a Sentence

statewide

1 of 2 adjective

• That’s in line with the statewide average of 77 percent.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2023
• If Haley wins at least 50% of the statewide vote, she'll be awarded all of the delegates.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2024
• It’s not lost on the Senate leader that all three have waged statewide campaigns.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
• It’s been 33 years since a Democrat was elected to statewide office in Texas.
  — Luisita Lopez Torregrosa, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
• The 9-year-old and 5-year-old were found in the city of Yoakum, less than an hour after a statewide Texas Amber Alert was issued.
  — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Feb. 2024
• Douglas wrote in the post, which was made just one day after the statewide deer season gun opener on Nov. 18.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 10 Apr. 2024
• Cogan rose to statewide prominence as an aide to Gov. Tom McCall.
  — Austindedios, oregonlive, 17 July 2023
• Virginia launched a statewide chronic absenteeism task force in the fall.
  — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
• There's also a new statewide fee on ride-hailing services.
  — Brian Witte, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2024
• Where does road funding come from? Pinal County has two ways of funding its roads: a statewide fund and a county sales tax.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 6 May 2023
• Some cities next year will also boost their minimum wage above the statewide level.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2023
• Follow our sports Instagram page, @courierjournal_sports, to get the latest local and statewide news.
  — Bryce Houston, The Courier-Journal, 11 Sep. 2023
• For the first time ever in a statewide election, Michigan voters had the chance to vote early as well as absentee.
  — Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2024
• And nowhere embodies the statewide split like Door County, the pinky finger reaching into Lake Michigan on the eastern side of the state.
  — Jess Bidgood, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
• Three of the last four statewide surveys show Trump receiving a majority of the vote, the biggest being 55%.
  — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2024
• Races on the ballot While there are no statewide offices on the ballot this fall, all 140 seats in the General Assembly are up for grabs.
  — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• Schwartz said that as of Wednesday, the statewide snow water equivalent stood at 313 percent of the average.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2023
• Paxton has been the weakest link of GOP’s statewide election candidates.
  — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2023
• New state laws have required that voters have at least nine days of early voting in statewide elections.
  — Ashley Lopez, NPR, 27 Feb. 2024
• Unfortunately, the statewide Oklahoma school system is one of the worst in the nation.
  — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 14 Feb. 2024
• The statewide ban won’t take effect until January 2024.
  — Haleluya Hadero, Fortune, 18 May 2023
• Across the state, there are regional and statewide specialties to try, all promising to delight your palate with the same zest that makes the Sunshine State famous.
  — Skye Sherman, Southern Living, 12 June 2023
• San Diego’s greater attention to its dams is part of a statewide trend that began after the near failure in 2017 of Sacramento’s Oroville Dam.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2023
• At the end of the school year, Marcos was the only ninth grader in the newcomers program to earn a passing score on a statewide standardized test on his first try.
  — Hannah Dreier Meridith Kohut, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• Now that money has dried up with no statewide replacement on the way, and nonprofit assistance groups are scrambling to fill the gap.
  — Annie Gowen, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
• And the statewide test positivity rate hit 7.6% for the week that ended Monday, up from 4.1% a month earlier.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
• Trump is the dominant candidate in all national and statewide polls.
  — Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2023
• Texas plans to open half a dozen new state parks in coming years amid a statewide push to expand public land and provide more access to outdoor recreation.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
• Montana attempted to enact a statewide ban on TikTok last year only to find the state mired in lawsuits around First Amendment rights.
  — Olia Valigourskaia, Fortune, 18 Mar. 2024
• Hoyle, a Democrat, was elected to four terms in the Oregon House before winning the statewide labor commissioner race in 2018.
  — oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2023

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statewide

2 of 2 adverb

• On the road:Millions of dollars could go to rural road projects statewide.
  — Lacey Latch, The Arizona Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
• In math, 46% of DISD fourth graders met grade-level standards — roughly the same as statewide.
  — Talia Richman, Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2023
• The new rollback sets the state even further behind, likely to the detriment of ratepayers statewide.
  — Cynthia Koehler, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024
• The coalition's main job is to help emergency shelters statewide, Sanders said.
  — Remington Miller, Arkansas Online, 22 Oct. 2023
• This year’s squad should be no different, and will have one of the scariest receiving corps statewide.
  — Shane Hoffmann | , oregonlive, 25 Aug. 2023
• Job creation statewide shrinks by 62% in buyer’s markets.
  — Jonathan Lansner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2023
• According to the suit, two-thirds of the state’s 22 officers examined in the suit have never ruled for parents statewide.
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
• The bill stems from a lawsuit that sought to force commissioners to be elected from districts, instead of statewide.
  — Jeff Amy, Quartz, 22 Mar. 2024
• At both grade ranges in math, a few dozen districts show a full recovery — out of several hundred statewide.
  — Mandy McLaren, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
• The resulting blackouts killed more than 200 people statewide.
  — J. David Goodman, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• But with just 135 employees statewide, the company appears to be on the financial edge.
  — Ken Ward Jr., ProPublica, 1 Dec. 2023
• About 30 percent of the bond proceeds would be used to build housing statewide while 70 percent would pay to build new facilities.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2024
• Most of the money -- $6.6 million -- will go toward television ads that will air statewide in Iowa and New Hampshire and run through the end of November.
  — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2023
• But what about locally, statewide in California and even on Main Streets?
  — Cameron Sullivan, The Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2024
• That translated to a total loan forgiveness of more than $363 million statewide.
  — Tony Holt, Arkansas Online, 1 July 2023
• Trone has aired multiple television ads so far and sent mailers statewide.
  — Erin Cox, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
• Rain and storms will be possible statewide, however, as a cold front moves through later tonight and into Thursday.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 6 Apr. 2023
• Capozzi said child care is a top concern for the chamber’s 700 or so members, which includes businesses big and small in industries statewide.
  — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Mar. 2023
• Georgia became the only state in the nation to mandate Dominion’s BMDs for all in-person voting statewide.
  — Amy Gardner, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2024
• Connecticut adopted diversion statewide about a decade ago and has tracked some data.
  — Aidan Gardiner, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• Single-family home prices statewide fell 2.4% in the year through June, but buyers’ monthly costs jumped as mortgage rates rose, hovering close to 7%.
  — John Gittelsohn, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2023
• Two years later, Oregon banned them statewide and a partial ban soon followed in New Mexico where some state agencies can still use them.
  — Scott Sonner, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2023
• The center offers support to charter schools statewide, including the awarding of planning and startup grants.
  — Cynthia Howell, Arkansas Online, 18 Aug. 2023
• In New York, legislators introduced a bill that would prohibit the sale of baby loungers statewide.
  — Suzy Khimm, NBC News, 25 May 2023
• The survey confirms the findings of pre-Election Day polls showing Trump far outpacing Haley statewide.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 25 Feb. 2024
• Just last month, the Supreme Court rejected Florida’s request to enforce its drag law after a lower court blocked the measure statewide.
  — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2023
• The average cost per participant statewide was 46 cents.
  — Stephanie Kuzydym, courier-journal.com, 10 May 2023
• Storage yards under highways are common statewide, with the money from the leases going to public transit.
  — John Antczak, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023
• Such work has been done statewide in areas where cable barriers are needed to prevent fatal head-on crashes.
  — Journal Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2024
• To be fair, try to think back one year ago when there was a fairly strong consensus among forecasters that 2023 would see a recession – locally, statewide and nationally.
  — Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 11 Apr. 2024

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