How to Use upstate in a Sentence

upstate

noun
  • Thom Browne took a jaunt upstate for his fall campaign.
    — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Our favorite things to do upstate are to hike and swim in swimming holes.
    — Kate Young, Vogue, 14 July 2017
  • The people who oppose it are folks who live upstate or don’t come in.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Better than scrolling by an upstate-cult-compound mile.
    — James Folta, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
  • And in a fun little twist, she’s being sent to a silent monastery upstate — yep, that silent monastery.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Goetz was born in Queens to middle-class parents and raised on a farm upstate.
    — Kevin Lozano, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026
  • Where there is a house upstate, there must be transportation upstate.
    — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • While the green would like right at home in a cabin upstate, bookmark the yellow for the beach house.
    — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Some of the Bronx is rocky and wooded like upstate, and some is oceanfront marsh and beach.
    — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • In season three, the cast was foiled in their plans to get to Rachel's ski cabin upstate.
    — Louis Cheslaw, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Four full casinos, all upstate, now offer table games.
    — Philip Marcelo, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2025
  • There is, of course, a trip upstate, on which the couple kiss in the woods and listen to music by a lake.
    — Giovana Gelhoren, Peoplemag, 13 Aug. 2022
  • He was then returned to New York, where he is being held upstate.
    — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 2 July 2025
  • And my bosses would be like, dude, that stain has been on that upstate upstairs toilet for a good two weeks.
    — Outside Online, 30 July 2025
  • Peter Sarsgaard wanted to buy [the boat] and take it to his house upstate.
    — Tatiana Tenreyro, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 July 2024
  • And Bond’s been splitting their time between upstate and the city ever since.
    — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
  • From the prison upstate, Christopher was still at a loss to explain his actions that day.
    — John Leland, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Anyway, Sai decides to take her mom upstate and plant a tree for her and spread some of her ashes in the roots.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Her sons exercise their power and send Lotte to a nursing home upstate.
    — Madeleine Schwartz, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • Owen had travelled from upstate, and talked about Nauman visiting him.
    — Thessaly La Force, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • Why on Earth would an NYC drag queen be upstate hosting a party?
    — Zachary Zane, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2023
  • These will fit in seamlessly when hiking upstate, though the name is also inspiring me to take these for a spin at a dance class.
    — Gabrielle Porcaro, Travel + Leisure, 28 May 2023
  • Four full casinos have since opened, though all of them are located upstate, far from Manhattan.
    — Dave Smith, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Recently on a trip to our family home upstate, our mother asked him to move to the end of our deck to smoke his cigarette.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 8 Oct. 2017
  • If all of this gets spent in the suburbs and upstate — where housing also needs to be built faster and at lower cost — that wouldn’t be a total loss.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 7 June 2025
  • Pack it for the beach or a weekend upstate—the crochet knit can be easily folded down and stashed in a larger weekender bag.
    — Lauren Tappan, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 July 2023
  • The actress plays a chef who leaves a fancy New York City restaurant to run a trendy new spot upstate.
    — Ralphie Aversa, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
  • No one wants to see your cheesy hard launch or romantic weekend upstate on Instagram anymore.
    — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 11 Dec. 2025
  • One of the most unusual properties for sale upstate right now comes in the form of a 193-acre former zoo.
    — Jenny Xie, Curbed, 4 Feb. 2022
  • In an effort to get to know her future sister-in-law, Katie agrees to a trip upstate and invites two of her college friends to join.
    — Annabel Gutterman, Time, 25 July 2019

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