How to Use tristate in a Sentence

tristate

adjective
  • Menus are posted online and attract a diverse group of diners from the tristate area.
    — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The tristate area is hit by a terrible rainstorm that causes a rolling blackout.
    — Susanna Fogel, Glamour, 20 Dec. 2018
  • Participants must be at least 18 years old and cannot come from outside the tristate area.
    — Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Some landlords require even more for guarantors who live outside the tristate area.
    — Kim Velsey, New York Times, 1 June 2018
  • But many beaches in the tristate region are closed, and at the ones that are open, a day at the shore will look markedly different.
    — New York Times, 21 May 2020
  • Zoom out a notch, though, and Manhattan loses its luster compared to the tony suburbs in the tristate area.
    — Adam Manzor, Bloomberg.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • To me, Howard Fast simply looked like a million other cranky old Jewish guys from the tristate area.
    — Molly Jong-Fast, The New York Review of Books, 21 Feb. 2021
  • The dire hospital situation on the news is only a tristate problem.
    — Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Seaman’s was ubiquitous in the tristate area a generation ago.
    — Diana Budds, Curbed, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Earlier in the day, New York joined the rest of the tristate area in opening its beaches with restrictions.
    — NBC News, 24 May 2020
  • From California to Texas to the tristate area, drive-in theaters have been selling out since many reopened this month.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 May 2020
  • Of the domestic audience, only 20 percent is in the tristate area.
    — Liz Spayd, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2017
  • In the tristate area, sports betting is legal in New Jersey and Delaware.
    — Ed Barkowitz, Philly.com, 13 July 2018
  • The upcoming storm comes courtesy of a growing nor’easter that could dump more than a foot of snow on the Big Apple and the rest of the tristate area.
    — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2026
  • The cortisol levels in my bloodstream boil at a level just shy of requiring evacuation of the tristate area.
    — Brennan Kilbane and Theresa O'Rourke, Allure, 28 Mar. 2019
  • Recently, two of the larger counties in the tristate area decided not to participate in the program.
    — Liz Robbins, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Crystal and Brian Pickard identified a number of towns that met these criteria in their search for a home in the tristate suburbs.
    — Susan Hodara, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Just as New Yorkers started to see the grass beneath the slush, another Nor’easter is en route to the tristate area this weekend.
    — Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 20 Feb. 2026
  • An additional 3-6 inches is expected for the tristate area, and up to a foot or more in New England.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC news, 23 Feb. 2026
  • There are dozens of express consignment stores in the tristate area that function like a private UPS, only for parcels from Ecuador.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2019
  • The top regions for us are California, Florida and the Northeast tristate area.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Tornado warnings were issued throughout Greater Cincinnati as severe storms and heavy rain fall swept through the tristate Friday night.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 20 June 2021
  • Parts of the Hudson Valley got 18 inches or more, with similar totals recorded throughout the tristate area.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Even on slow days, the Van Cortlandt Park handball courts are bustling with handball, paddleball and racquetball players from around the tristate area.
    — New York Times, 1 June 2021
  • Located on our bucolic, eleven-hundred-square-foot campus, our not-for-profit middle school is one of the most exclusive in the tristate area, with a diverse student body of one eighth grader.
    — Jordan Rau, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Wildlife experts are cautioning people to continue to keep bird feeders and bird baths empty, for now, as a growing number of birds are being affected by a mysterious illness in the tristate area.
    — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 8 July 2021
  • Just take notice of the New York Knicks fandom that’s sweeping over the tristate area, and the still-going-strong Adidas Gazelles as everyday footwear trend.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • However, that still represented a significant improvement from Monday, when more than 90% of flights into and out of the tristate area were canceled.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • After her lecture, Astrid says she was asked to fill out a piece of paper with her sentence — she was banned from all Whole Foods in the tristate area for stealing approximately $30 of food.
    — Nora Deligter, Curbed, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Last week, for instance, a handful of states were removed — including nearby Rhode Island and the Silvers’ destination of Ohio — and a few more added to the tristate area’s list.
    — Pat Eaton-Robb and Mike Catalini, chicagotribune.com, 17 Aug. 2020

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