How to Use tristate in a Sentence

tristate

adjective
  • But many beaches in the tristate region are closed, and at the ones that are open, a day at the shore will look markedly different.
    New York Times, 21 May 2020
  • Lawmakers in the tristate area are trying to put an end to child marriage.
    Joseph De Avila and Melanie Grayce West, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2017
  • To me, Howard Fast simply looked like a million other cranky old Jewish guys from the tristate area.
    Molly Jong-Fast, The New York Review of Books, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Earlier in the day, New York joined the rest of the tristate area in opening its beaches with restrictions.
    NBC News, 24 May 2020
  • Participants must be at least 18 years old and cannot come from outside the tristate area.
    Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Zoom out a notch, though, and Manhattan loses its luster compared to the tony suburbs in the tristate area.
    Adam Manzor, Bloomberg.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The tristate area is hit by a terrible rainstorm that causes a rolling blackout.
    Susanna Fogel, Glamour, 20 Dec. 2018
  • In the tristate area, sports betting is legal in New Jersey and Delaware.
    Ed Barkowitz, Philly.com, 13 July 2018
  • From California to Texas to the tristate area, drive-in theaters have been selling out since many reopened this month.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 May 2020
  • There are dozens of express consignment stores in the tristate area that function like a private UPS, only for parcels from Ecuador.
    Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2019
  • Crystal and Brian Pickard identified a number of towns that met these criteria in their search for a home in the tristate suburbs.
    Susan Hodara, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Jim Pappas is a man on a mission, and the mission may or may not be impossible: to sample each and every cheesesteak in the tristate area.
    Allison Steele, https://www.inquirer.com, 5 June 2019
  • Of the domestic audience, only 20 percent is in the tristate area.
    Liz Spayd, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2017
  • Some landlords require even more for guarantors who live outside the tristate area.
    Kim Velsey, New York Times, 1 June 2018
  • Even on slow days, the Van Cortlandt Park handball courts are bustling with handball, paddleball and racquetball players from around the tristate area.
    New York Times, 1 June 2021
  • The top regions for us are California, Florida and the Northeast tristate area.
    Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Recently, two of the larger counties in the tristate area decided not to participate in the program.
    Liz Robbins, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Last week, for instance, a handful of states were removed — including nearby Rhode Island and the Silvers' destination of Ohio — and a few more added to the tristate area's list.
    Pat Eaton-Robb and Mike Catlalini, Star Tribune, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Last week, for instance, a handful of states were removed — including nearby Rhode Island and the Silvers’ destination of Ohio — and a few more added to the tristate area’s list.
    Pat Eaton-Robb and Mike Catalini, chicagotribune.com, 17 Aug. 2020
  • The dire hospital situation on the news is only a tristate problem.
    Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020
  • The cortisol levels in my bloodstream boil at a level just shy of requiring evacuation of the tristate area.
    Brennan Kilbane and Theresa O'Rourke, Allure, 28 Mar. 2019
  • Tornado warnings were issued throughout Greater Cincinnati as severe storms and heavy rain fall swept through the tristate Friday night.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 20 June 2021
  • With the help of her husband and two sons, Ms. Tulman opened two restaurants (one now under a new name and ownership, the other shuttered) and ran factories that supplied pelmeni and crepes to the tristate area.
    New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Seaman’s was ubiquitous in the tristate area a generation ago.
    Diana Budds, Curbed, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Located on our bucolic, eleven-hundred-square-foot campus, our not-for-profit middle school is one of the most exclusive in the tristate area, with a diverse student body of one eighth grader.
    Jordan Rau, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Since then, Fairway has expanded to 14 stores in the tristate area, gone public, declared bankruptcy, cycled through owners, and declared bankruptcy again.
    Bianca Bosker, The Atlantic, 17 June 2020
  • Wildlife experts are cautioning people to continue to keep bird feeders and bird baths empty, for now, as a growing number of birds are being affected by a mysterious illness in the tristate area.
    Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 8 July 2021
  • October is Pennsylvania Archaeology Month and this annual event presents the latest archaeological artifacts and site discoveries from the tristate area.
    Stephan Salisbury, Philly.com, 6 Sep. 2017

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'tristate.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: