How to Use upstate in a Sentence

upstate

noun

• Since 2010, she’s been based upstate, away from the hustle and chaos.
  — Suyin Haynes, CNN, 18 Feb. 2024
• In season three, the cast was foiled in their plans to get to Rachel's ski cabin upstate.
  — Louis Cheslaw, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Sep. 2019
• There is, of course, a trip upstate, on which the couple kiss in the woods and listen to music by a lake.
  — Giovana Gelhoren, Peoplemag, 13 Aug. 2022
• Our favorite things to do upstate are to hike and swim in swimming holes.
  — Kate Young, Vogue, 14 July 2017
• Ben Sinclair needed to get the R.V. upstate for the winter.
  — Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
• After many years of searching for a place upstate, my wife and I chose to live in the same hamlet as Paul and Sarah.
  — Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2023
• And Bond’s been splitting their time between upstate and the city ever since.
  — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
• Just like my childhood dog is staying on a farm upstate.
  — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2017
• Just over 2,000 migrants have been housed upstate by the city, according to City Hall.
  — Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• Why on Earth would an NYC drag queen be upstate hosting a party?
  — Zachary Zane, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2023
• During the pandemic, she’s split her time between the city and her home upstate.
  — Lane Florsheim, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2020
• One of the most unusual properties for sale upstate right now comes in the form of a 193-acre former zoo.
  — Jenny Xie, Curbed, 4 Feb. 2022
• In an effort to get to know her future sister-in-law, Katie agrees to a trip upstate and invites two of her college friends to join.
  — Annabel Gutterman, Time, 25 July 2019
• The two drove upstate just as the leaves began to change colors and booked the spot’s Carriage House, adjacent to the historic main building.
  — Shira Savada, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Nov. 2020
• Where there is a house upstate, there must be transportation upstate.
  — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• Her sons exercise their power and send Lotte to a nursing home upstate.
  — Madeleine Schwartz, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• While the deep winters can be gray and a walk to the nearest dry cleaner is impossible, living upstate brings me more joy than the city has in decades.
  — Gary Shteyngart, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Aug. 2023
• These will fit in seamlessly when hiking upstate, though the name is also inspiring me to take these for a spin at a dance class.
  — Gabrielle Porcaro, Travel + Leisure, 28 May 2023
• Dyer, who uses they/them pronouns, lives more than two miles upstate from the city in Hillsdale, a small town near Hudson.
  — Ned Resnikoff, The New Republic, 2 Sep. 2023
• Toby’s ex-wife, Rachel (Claire Danes), has sequestered his kids in his apartment and fled to a yoga retreat upstate.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2022
• Pack it for the beach or a weekend upstate—the crochet knit can be easily folded down and stashed in a larger weekender bag.
  — Lauren Tappan, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 July 2023
• Recently on a trip to our family home upstate, our mother asked him to move to the end of our deck to smoke his cigarette.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 8 Oct. 2017
• Theo Harper and his pregnant wife, Darla, head upstate to their summer cottage to wait out the lockdown.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
• The Real Housewives of New York alum spent time upstate with her partner recently.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2023
• And in South Carolina, freezing temps didn't play favorites with burst pipes upstate in Greenville and down in the lowcountry at Charleston.
  — Arkansas Online, 3 Jan. 2023
• Breakfast at the Phoenicia Diner is also an upstate must.
  — Kate Young, Vogue, 14 July 2017
• For Alex’s funeral upstate, one of Cassie’s most memorable looks, Thomas designed a cape-like coat.
  — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 17 Dec. 2020
• The shingled gray house has two floors that total just 840 square feet and sits on half an acre of forested land directly next to the main home Chagall resided in upstate.
  — Curbed, 30 Sep. 2022
• The victim had been looking forward to selling her house in Brooklyn and moving upstate to spend more time with her family prior to the fatal crash, Vera said.
  — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 10 Apr. 2024
• Earlier, in the fall of 2022, New York environmental officials confirmed that an animal caught during a coyote hunt upstate the previous year was, in fact, a wolf.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 15 May 2024

Last Updated: 23 Jul 2024