Example sentences for: states--

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

  • Three big states--Florida, Texas, and California--have implemented a solution that has been heralded by conservatives and liberals, by Ward Connerly and the New York Times . The key to agreement over affirmative action, it turns out, is for everyone to say the opposite of what they mean.

  • According to the WJC, he wrote, the present number of Jews in the United States--5.

  • In fact, the Journal accompanies the piece with a chart showing that only three states--Oklahoma, Washington, and Alaska--are exporting fewer goods since NAFTA.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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