Sentence examples for State name from inspiring English sources

The word "plantations" in Rhode Island's official state name, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is anachronistic.

In 2002, as secretary of state, Matt Blunt polled visitors at the Missouri State Fair about how to say the state name, with Missouree winning in a landslide.

North Carolina--Their friends at Philip Morris Co. file a lawsuit against the new state name claiming it makes emphysema "seem like a bad thing," and demand the state's original name be reinstated.

And the New England Patriots football team does not even have a state name.

The AALL universal citation uses a name abbreviation for the state name and the name of the statute compilation.

The copy number (CN) and allelic imbalance are then calculated from the state name (composed of 'F's and 'M's) of each CNV region (CN = #F+ M, AI = 0.5−#M/CN).

Its official state name is "The First State", because it was the first of the 13 original Colonies to ratify the Constitution in 1787, thus becoming the first state in the nation.

It's believed to be how we got our state name.

There have been occasional, fruitless, efforts to end the debate over the state name.

It is how to pronounce the state name: "Missouree" or "Missouruh".

The state name is derived from the Iowa Native American people who once inhabited the area.