Example sentences for: states--

How can you use “states--” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Now some form of paycheck protection has been adopted in five states--Wyoming, Idaho, Washington state, Ohio (where it was later struck down in court), and Michigan.

  • On the libertarian front, five states--Alaska, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona--put medical marijuana on the ballot, and five states approved (or in Arizona's case, re-approved) it.

  • The average income of the top 20 percent of families was $137,500, or more than 10 times that of the poorest 20 percent, which was $13,300, but in nine states--New York, Arizona, New Mexico, Louisiana, California, Rhode Island, Texas, Oregon, and Kentucky--the top figure was more than 11 times the bottom.

  • I pour the stuff to start sons and daughters fit for These States--I press with slow rude muscle, I brace myself effectually--I listen to no entreaties, I dare not withdraw till I deposit what has so long accumulated within me, Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself,

  • Five states--Arizona, Maine, Michigan, New Jersey, and North Carolina--endorsed ballot initiatives to expand state environmental funding and, in all but Arizona, by huge margins.


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