How to Use subregion in a Sentence

subregion

noun
  • Chardonnay is the star white grape of the region—except in the subregion of Saint-Bris.
    Lettie Teague, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Project costs are spread across the entire MISO subregion.
    Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 26 July 2022
  • True Chablis hails from the eponymous subregion of Burgundy, France.
    Michael Austin, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • This news comes after the continent has seen a rise in food prices due to a severe drought in the eastern subregion.
    Ashlee Banks, Essence, 7 Mar. 2022
  • There are multiple pages of Sicilian wine; the red wines from the Etna subregion alone claim a page and a half.
    Lettie Teague, WSJ, 16 June 2022
  • Beside injera with ginger beef and red lentils, the subregion of East Africa is colored in.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
  • But here, color-coded by subregion, one click pops up an overview of the area, its soil, climate and grapes.
    Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Remarkably, the jets of about a dozen of the galaxies, concentrated in a subregion of the field of view, can all be seen pointing in the same direction.
    Quanta Magazine, 14 June 2016
  • Compare that to some -- but not all -- of the 50 US states, which have coroners stationed locally by county or subregion.
    John D. Sutter, CNN, 27 Oct. 2017
  • At every age, prolonged sitters show less thickness in the medial temporal lobe and the subregions that make it up, the study found.
    Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Chardonnay is the only grape variety grown in this subregion.
    Rachel King, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2019
  • The white circle encloses the area impacted by the downburst, but the most extreme winds were contained in the subregion of pink colors, just southwest of Olney.
    Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 12 July 2022
  • The restaurant focuses on the various cuisines around the Mediterranean and twice a year deep-dives into a specific subregion.
    Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The women consulted the lists of potential wines laid out in front of them, all of which were divided by country or region, as well as by subregion or style.
    Valeriya Safronova, New York Times, 10 July 2018
  • In and around the subregion of Bolzano, red grapes such as Schiava and Lagrein are more prevalent due to the warmer temperatures the area endures during the growing season.
    Jessica Dupuy, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Sihlobo explains that the Ukraine war also comes at a bad time for Africa given the current experience of a severe drought in its eastern subregion, which has taken a hit on food prices.
    Nimi Princewill, CNN, 5 Mar. 2022
  • The depth and breadth of the lineup is overwhelming at first glance, with an entire page of Cabernet Sauvignon and three pages of Argentine Malbec divided by region and subregion.
    Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 3 July 2023
  • The wine tastings are designed to go over major wine regions and subregions, grapes and types of wine, and all the wines poured will be sustainably produced and made with minimal intervention.
    Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Worldwide, but especially in the United States, library and bookstore shelves are filled with Italian cookbooks, many of which expound on the dishes found in specific regions, subregions or cities in Italy.
    G. Daniela Galarza, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Conditions in the region are dire, yes, but at the same time there is this incredible window of opportunity to make some real improvements to the larger system that’s in place right now, within the United States and across the subregion.
    Maryanne Murray Buechner, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
  • One of its central goals is to boost African economies by harmonizing trade liberalization across subregions and at the continental level.
    Landry Signé, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The sandy, poryphic soils of the Merano subregion foster red grapes, including Schiava and Pinot Nero, both of which benefit with higher acidity from cooler growing temperatures.
    Jessica Dupuy, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Pacific Islanders are people whose heritage is connected to origins belonging to one or more of the 15 nations included in the census, which are divided into the subregions of Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia.
    Shanon Maglente, Good Housekeeping, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Southeastern San Diego also has twice as many hospital discharges for asthma and hypertensive disease as any other central subregion — and double the countywide figure.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2022
  • Partisans take turns drawing lines on the map; each line to divide a contiguous region into two contiguous subregions, each containing an integer multiple of N/n people (within agreed rounding error).
    WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018
  • They are further divided to focus on subregions, including Japan and Korea; materials, like ceramics; and categories, such as weaponry.
    Vanessa H. Larson, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The superior temporal gyrus, located in the temporal lobe, seemed to be heavily involved in musical perception, with a particular subregion connected to rhythm.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
  • That constitution, and numerous subsequent laws adding to it, give Catalonia more autonomy than practically any other national subregion in the democratic world.
    Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Neural circuitry within specific hippocampal subregions (in particular, areas called CA1 and CA2) contribute to such social memories.
    Matthew Schafer, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2020

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