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Definition of downstate in English: downstateadverb & adjectiveˈdaʊnsteɪt US Of, in, or to a part of a state that is remote from its large cities, especially the southern part. 在(或向)州的边远地区(尤指州的南部)(的) Example sentencesExamples - Why hasn't she done anything to help prime the pump for technology in the downstate area, improve our schools, help clean up the Long Island Sound.
- His victory in the March primary - winning 53 percent of the vote overall against six substantial candidates, including many city, suburban and downstate areas with few black voters - seemed to open a new era in racial politics.
- I will be the voice of those in my district and I will support downstate membership.
- He, a towering political figure in New York for decades, had already pushed through a network of parkways in the downstate metropolitan area and Long Island well before the advent of World War II.
- I happened to be in downstate Illinois for sales calls earlier in the week, so it made perfect sense to duck into Peoria and race both days events before heading home.
- Finally, one might treat some of the individual fears and grievances expressed by those accused of the murders, and consider why so many downstate Illinoisans, Missourians, and lowans became involved.
- She, in turn, was a mentor to him, then domiciled in Venice Beach, but originally from downstate Illinois.
- Where I live in downstate NY, we have city water, east of here they have well water.
- She had read my new book, This Organic Life, which tells the story of my quarter-century effort to eat locally in downstate New York.
- ‘Before there were settlers in the Adirondacks,’ writes Terrie, ‘there was ownership of the land, usually by downstate speculators’.
- Many prisoners sleep on the floors; others wait to be sent to prisons in downstate Illinois.
- By the end of the year, the virus has spread to Long Island, downstate New York, to New Jersey, and to Connecticut, and had killed at least 5,000 birds.
- Not as warm as Los Angeles, it also lacks the cachet, fashionable coastlines and morbidly appealing plasticity of its downstate counterpart.
- He has bought 1,000 acres in downstate Virginia, with his eyes on another 1,000 that eventually will include an educational facility focusing on about the environment.
- That is including the time it will take me to get through the congestion of the downstate metro area.
- Where I live, in downstate New York, this is the time of year for tidying up - stripping the last fruits from the peppers, eggplants and tomato vines, then salvaging a final zucchini.
- This is the most authentic ghost tour in downstate Illinois and the tours are designed to be both historically and supernaturally accurate.
- But since many residents own cars (for the occasional downstate drive to bigger cities or the airport), they tend to use them for shorter trips, too.
- The landscape of downstate Illinois stretches out as flat as a tabletop.
- What's more, the canal can't even be thanked for providing all of the electricity for the city, because much of the wattage it generates gets fused into a power grid formed by a conglomerate of electricity production facilities downstate.
nounˈdaʊnsteɪtˌdaʊnˈsteɪt mass nounUS A remote part of a state. Example sentencesExamples - I think downstate is much more similar to NJ.
- They were joined by some two hundred women from downstate who had traveled by car to Springfield.
- People from downstate think Chicago doesn't represent the whole of Illinois, which is probably true, and probably a good thing.
- He was from downstate, while Lyons had been from Chicago.
- The families from downstate were there.
Derivativesnoun US Although acres of corn and beans will never be confused with Michigan Avenue, the plain fact is that Chicagoans and downstaters think - and speak - differently. Example sentencesExamples - Wealthy downstaters are deciding that, if they're not getting a tax cut anyway, they might as well vote for the party that's fully committed to it.
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- I will be the voice of those in my district and I will support downstate membership.
- Finally, one might treat some of the individual fears and grievances expressed by those accused of the murders, and consider why so many downstate Illinoisans, Missourians, and lowans became involved.
- This is the most authentic ghost tour in downstate Illinois and the tours are designed to be both historically and supernaturally accurate.
- Not as warm as Los Angeles, it also lacks the cachet, fashionable coastlines and morbidly appealing plasticity of its downstate counterpart.
- Why hasn't she done anything to help prime the pump for technology in the downstate area, improve our schools, help clean up the Long Island Sound.
- She, in turn, was a mentor to him, then domiciled in Venice Beach, but originally from downstate Illinois.
- ‘Before there were settlers in the Adirondacks,’ writes Terrie, ‘there was ownership of the land, usually by downstate speculators’.
- Where I live in downstate NY, we have city water, east of here they have well water.
- Many prisoners sleep on the floors; others wait to be sent to prisons in downstate Illinois.
- The landscape of downstate Illinois stretches out as flat as a tabletop.
- By the end of the year, the virus has spread to Long Island, downstate New York, to New Jersey, and to Connecticut, and had killed at least 5,000 birds.
- Where I live, in downstate New York, this is the time of year for tidying up - stripping the last fruits from the peppers, eggplants and tomato vines, then salvaging a final zucchini.
- I happened to be in downstate Illinois for sales calls earlier in the week, so it made perfect sense to duck into Peoria and race both days events before heading home.
- She had read my new book, This Organic Life, which tells the story of my quarter-century effort to eat locally in downstate New York.
- What's more, the canal can't even be thanked for providing all of the electricity for the city, because much of the wattage it generates gets fused into a power grid formed by a conglomerate of electricity production facilities downstate.
- He, a towering political figure in New York for decades, had already pushed through a network of parkways in the downstate metropolitan area and Long Island well before the advent of World War II.
- But since many residents own cars (for the occasional downstate drive to bigger cities or the airport), they tend to use them for shorter trips, too.
- That is including the time it will take me to get through the congestion of the downstate metro area.
- His victory in the March primary - winning 53 percent of the vote overall against six substantial candidates, including many city, suburban and downstate areas with few black voters - seemed to open a new era in racial politics.
nounˌdounˈstātˌdaʊnˈsteɪt US A remote part of a state, especially in the southern part. 在(或向)州的边远地区(尤指州的南部)(的) Example sentencesExamples - I think downstate is much more similar to NJ.
- People from downstate think Chicago doesn't represent the whole of Illinois, which is probably true, and probably a good thing.
- He was from downstate, while Lyons had been from Chicago.
- The families from downstate were there.
- They were joined by some two hundred women from downstate who had traveled by car to Springfield.
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