How to Use regional in a Sentence

regional

1 of 2 adjective
  • Lease deals can be highly regional and vary.
    — Susan Tompor, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Game 3 of the regional will still begin at noon.
    — Sarah Spencer, AJC.com, 30 May 2026
  • That could lead to a local or regional collapse of ocean food chains.
    — Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The top four seeds in each regional play the first two rounds of the tournament at home.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Yet this is now fast moving toward a regional war.
    — CBS News, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Oman, meanwhile, has been boosted by a regional safe-haven bid.
    — Hugh Leask, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Some of this may be regional or cultural.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2026
  • The split screen was visible at the local scale, as well as regional.
    — Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Seven of twelve regional offices were shut down.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Kroger notes that any changes to store hours over the weekend will be a regional decision.
    — Nicole Nielsen, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The coolest spots since the rise of social media are mom-and-pop regional eateries.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
  • No other league has more than one team in this weekend's regional finals.
    — ABC News, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Some regional health leaders are working hard on the daunting task.
    — Brian Simpson, NPR, 19 Sep. 2025
  • And being a regional hub sounds like a good strategy.
    — Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Food vendors and regional exhibitors will also be on hand.
    — Allison Gibson, Sacbee.com, 6 June 2026
  • China does not see itself as a regional power.
    — Dewardric L. McNeal, CNBC, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Even the stone walls, leather chairs and wooden desks are all by regional artisans and stone masons.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Apr. 2026
  • This isn’t the first time Donahue has done so in a regional championship game.
    — Steve Reaven, Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Brown aims to make whatever plays the Vikings need to win a third straight regional title.
    — Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Shares are up 43% in the year to date as more money has flowed into regional gaming.
    — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 26 June 2026
  • Meanwhile, no more than five to ten staffers will remain working at each regional office.
    — Connor Greene, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
  • There will be further talks with other regional leaders.
    — Nathan Hodge, CNN Money, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Many of the lowest fares came from regional and secondary airports rather than the country’s largest hubs.
    — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
  • The regional goal calls for 18,000 new housing units per year.
    — Eric Henderson, CBS News, 8 May 2026
  • The heavy metal doors creak as Faye, the regional health official, opens them.
    — Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 13 June 2026
  • Has Sutter Health had any other regional deals like this?
    — Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The two also credit the ease of access to regional funds as a great propeller.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The Storm beat the Lancers 2-1 last year for the regional title.
    — Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026
  • But less than two years later, Labour lost the most seats of any party in last week's regional elections.
    — Chandelis Duster, NPR, 10 May 2026
  • The Jackets won their first two regional games for the first time since 2010.
    — Michael Cunningham, AJC.com, 1 June 2026

regional

2 of 2 noun
  • Last year, nine hosts won regionals.
    — Eric Olson, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026
  • Those were the bottom four seeds to land home regionals.
    — Gary Bedore may 26, Kansas City Star, 26 May 2026
  • The school was hosting a regional for the first time.
    — Gary Bedore june 1, Kansas City Star, 1 June 2026
  • First, the Cougars will make a pit stop to play in a rare hometown regional.
    — Joseph Duarte, Houston Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2026
  • This match would have decided who went on to regionals.
    — Rick Cantu, Austin American Statesman, 27 Jan. 2026
  • What's the next highest streak, nine or something like that, regionals in a row?
    — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2023
  • But what about hosting a regional?
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
  • Curtis, who has become one of the best players at the regionals, was walked twice.
    — Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The Eagles chose to play in the regionals and now there’s one game left in their season.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
  • Neal might hit just as hard, and Prates has been KO’d on the regionals.
    — Brett Appley, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The top four seeds in each of four regionals are guaranteed first- and second-round home games.
    — oregonlive, 7 Mar. 2020
  • Here's a look at each team's matchup and regionals ahead of Saturday.
    — David J. Kim, The Courier-Journal, 13 Mar. 2020
  • To kick off 2026, the regionals are starting to make their move.
    — Jay Woods, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2026
  • That’s in addition to the hard-to-find shiny variants and regionals.
    — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 26 May 2026
  • This year, Georgia had the fourth-highest score at regionals.
    — Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Still, Merritt is hoping for some more turns in the spotlight next week in the regional.
    — Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The team that advances will then head to Pittsburgh next weekend for the regionals.
    — Aki Nace, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Earnings season kicks off next week, led by the big banks and followed by their smaller brethren – the regionals.
    — Jay Woods, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2026
  • That means a guarantee one of the four regionals will have two Pac-12 teams.
    — oregonlive, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Carey said this year’s team is stronger than a year ago, in part because of a poor showing during the first day of last year’s regionals.
    — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Winners of the regionals will reach eight best-of-three super regionals.
    — Joaquin Ruiz, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2026
  • With regionals on tap this week, Mary Minogue’s focus is on leaving sixth place in the dust.
    — Sam Brief, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Along the way, the show took shots at Glee's clichés, constant talk of regionals, ridiculous mash-ups, and so much more.
    — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Along the way, the show takes shots at Glee's clichés, constant talk of regionals, ridiculous mash-ups, and so much more.
    — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Instead, a core kind of lending for many of the large regionals is to enterprises.
    — Telis Demos, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The brothers' teams just so happen to be playing at the same site, but in different regionals.
    — Noah Trister, ajc, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Only one team will advance to the best-of-three super regionals, which will be held at a site to be determined.
    — Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 28 May 2026
  • Keep an eye on Graveline in the super regionals.
    — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 2 June 2026
  • The Tigers will play in the Sacramento regional.
    — Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 19 Mar. 2026
  • West Virginia is playing in the super regionals for the third straight season.
    — Michael Guise, CBS News, 6 June 2026

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