Example sentences for: upstate

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

  • He ran an ad upstate depicting Schumer as a New York City shark swimming up the Hudson.

  • Third, the candidate will tack left, then right in an attempt to gather votes from both downstate liberals and upstate conservatives-and will have it both ways, pandering to minorities one day and distancing herself the next.

  • Giuliani is signaling to upstate New Yorkers and to the national Republican Party that although he's the mayor of Sin City, he can't abide sinners himself.

  • When I asked Ferraro about her key issues, her answer was boilerplate: "Education," the struggling economy of upstate New York, D'Amato's "horrendous" record.

  • Burton's imagery has an ecstatic intensity; it's too bad that the movie--loosely based on the Irving classic about a ghost who haunts New York's Hudson Valley in the decades after the American Revolution--has been constructed as a sort of proto- Hound of the Baskervilles . In the screenplay, credited to Andrew Kevin Walker ( Seven , 1995) but reportedly rewritten by Tom Stoppard, the schoolteacher Ichabod Crane is now a New York City constable (Johnny Depp) who travels upstate to solve a series of beheadings using the fledgling sciences of pathology and deduction.


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