How to Use upstate in a Sentence

upstate

noun
Definition of upstatenext
  • Since 2010, she’s been based upstate, away from the hustle and chaos.
    — Suyin Haynes, CNN, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Some of the Bronx is rocky and wooded like upstate, and some is oceanfront marsh and beach.
    — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 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
  • Peter Sarsgaard wanted to buy [the boat] and take it to his house upstate.
    — Tatiana Tenreyro, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 July 2024
  • 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
  • Western, upstate and central New York are on flood watch.
    — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 10 July 2024
  • 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
  • Back at school, Castiglione would hitchhike 23 miles in frigid upstate New York to work at a small radio station in Norwich for a buck and a quarter an hour.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 29 June 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
  • The Road Ahead is also set in upstate, a decision, Esposito says, that came from studying the first two installments of the franchise.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 1 Oct. 2024

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