You may ask what would become of the upstate people if New York City left them in the lurch and went into the State business on its own account.
And, by the way, come to think of it, is there really any upstate Democrats left?
When Morris returned to his place of business that afternoon he had packed Sam Green off to his store upstate with instructions to return in a week, during which Morris hoped to take the matter up with Abe.
When I was a kid I had a chance to go into the store of a couple of yokels upstate in the town where I was born and raised; and I guess if I'd done so I'd been married and had a whole family of children by now.
To make it simple, there's a standing ten-thousand-dollar reward for knowledge of the whereabouts of a Judge Sam Baker who disappeared ten years ago from a little upstate New York town.
He said William Matson was really a man named Sam Baker who'd disappeared from his home in upstate New York ten years ago.
At ten o'clock it was necessary to post extra traffic police to take care of the cars headed upstate to look at the mystery.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "upstate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.