upstate
Speech parts
1. upstate - Noun
2. upstate - Adjective
3. upstate - Adverb
Meaning
in or toward the northern parts of a state
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Examples
The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing.
Upstate New York in the middle of October. You can't get more beautiful than that.
I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.
Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of like the equivalent of Great Danes. It's the way you keep your grass mowed. It's the way you keep your weed-whacking to a minimum.
The most important thing is to find the balance between city and nature. I have that 'hippie quality' - my husband is a super-hippie Los Angeles boy - so we'll have to make time to go to Puerto Rico, and upstate New York, and be sure we get to do outdoorsy stuff like that.
To see brown bodies in this environment was exciting to me...Rural upstate New York could be anywhere in middle America...The parents being from Brooklyn, and Pop having Puerto Rican heritage, and the mom being white, makes it a quintessential American story.