How to Use the Deep South in a Sentence

the Deep South

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• Three of her sisters were sold and sent to the Deep South.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
• More severe weather is in store for this week in the Heartland and the Deep South.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 28 Feb. 2023
• The extreme heat will continue into the weekend for parts of Texas and the Deep South.
  — Max Golembo, ABC News, 27 June 2023
• Robert, an American truck driver in his 50s, lived in a trailer park in the Deep South.
  — Monica Liu, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2023
• Daffodils are sturdy plants that bounce back after snowfalls and some also thrive in the heat of the Deep South or West.
  — Charlotte Germane, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Feb. 2023
• Unlike in the Deep South, there were no lunch counters to desegregate, no bus seats to claim.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Aug. 2023
• About half of the states, including virtually all of the Deep South and Great Plains, now have bans on the procedure.
  — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 24 June 2024
• But college in the Deep South required a handbook I’d never been given.
  — Lane Scott Jones, Longreads, 25 June 2024
• Parts of the Deep South and Southeast face slight risks of severe weather, with concerns of flooding and tornadoes.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2024
• Their drive down the East Coast is cruising toward the Deep South, and communication styles are chafing.
  — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
• The differences between his home of Bakersfield and the rest of the state are not as vast as the differences between California and the Deep South.
  — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
• Edwards is the only Democratic governor in the Deep South.
  — CBS News, 15 Oct. 2023
• The showcase in the heart of the Deep South could prove decisive for some candidates, as the party looks to winnow the roster of those seeking the nomination.
  — Jennifer Jacobs, al, 31 Aug. 2023
• Heirs’ property, a legacy of slavery’s aftermath across the Deep South, is under threat throughout the Black Belt.
  — James Pollard, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
• Severe thunderstorms will persist into tonight across a broad portion of the Deep South/Southeast States.
  — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 26 Mar. 2023
• Lee grew up in the Northeast, celebrating Juneteenth every year with family from the Deep South.
  — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 19 June 2023
• Fletcher, 27, traces her roots to Jamaica and Hoodoo spirituality from the Deep South.
  — Mary Claire Molloy, Washington Post, 30 July 2023
• Tunica County was once known as one of the poorest counties in the country, until the arrival of casinos in the early 1990s helped transform it into the busiest gambling hub in the Deep South.
  — Bracey Harris, NBC News, 19 July 2023
• This is the Deep South, after all, where anti-union attitudes are enshrined in state constitutions.
  — Stephan Bisaha, NPR, 6 May 2024
• Many participants in the Freedom Rides of 1961 were also college students and were confronted with violent mobs who met them in the Deep South.
  — Richard Fausset, New York Times, 4 May 2024
• Lal could also tell how much those three years in India meant to Lawson, and how the experience prepared him for the challenge of confronting racial segregation in the Deep South.
  — Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2024
• Expansions continue and new Buc-ee’s are launching beyond the Deep South, where there are travel stations with the red-and-yellow beaver logo in seven states.
  — John Sharp, al, 10 Apr. 2023
• On the southern tier of this storm, the clash of cold and warm air, among other factors, will contribute to a potential multi-day severe weather outbreak from the Southern Plains into the Deep South.
  — Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 24 Mar. 2024
• Under the leadership of King, who was relatively new to civil rights activism at the time, the bus boycott was the first large-scale effort to integrate public transportation in the Deep South.
  — Zachary Clary, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
• At least 21 people in Mississippi, and one in Alabama, lost their lives as powerful thunderstorms spawned the tornado outbreak across a broad swath of the Deep South.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
• Growing union strength in the Deep South diminishes the ability of governors who recruit business with promises of nonunion shops, Elson said.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 20 Apr. 2024
• While the Deep South’s music, food, and residents are emphasized, and the ramifications of poverty and violence are also present, there is so much more to explore.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 5 July 2024
• Usually during this time of year, the Deep South state is addressing threats of imminent hurricanes, tropical storms and flooding.
  — CBS News, 25 Aug. 2023
• But no factor plays a bigger role in the Deep South than its entrenched patriarchal culture and gender norms, female legislators and experts say.
  — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 11 Jan. 2024
• Further examination of the materials published as part of those attacks reveals language that hearkens back to the same excuses used for lynching in the Deep South.
  — TIME, 14 May 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024