How to Use regional in a Sentence

regional

1 of 2 adjective
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  • Some businesses, and the people who run them, are meant to stay regional.
    — Danny Palumbo / The Takeout, Quartz, 24 Mar. 2024
  • The 24-year-old from Bay City, Texas, is the latest regional Mexican to take over the hearts and minds of a music-loving world.
    — Jaime Falcón, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
  • The new regional water provider that Flint intended to join was not yet built.
    — Anna Clark, ProPublica, 11 July 2023
  • The risk that this could explode into a regional conflict is high.
    — Yaakov Katz, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2023
  • But other actors would be happy to see the war go regional.
    — Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024
  • But the United States does this at the cost of its own global standing and its own regional interests.
    — Marc Lynch, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2023
  • In his junior year, the Crusaders went 25-7, losing to Mason in the regional final.
    — Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 11 July 2023
  • The entire Metrolink regional commuter rail system will be shut down at the end of December for four days.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The winner of the challenge will earn immunity for their regional team.
    — Kturnqui, oregonlive, 21 June 2023
  • Here's what to know: What does this mean for regional security?
    — Time, 27 July 2023
  • Ryan wraps up the regular season with the program’s first district title since 2016, when the Raiders went to the regional semifinals.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Markets on Tuesday got served a reminder of the challenges facing regional banks and largely shrugged it off.
    — WSJ, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Last year’s regional final defeat wasn’t the only obstacle for the Jaguars.
    — Steve Bittenbender, The Courier-Journal, 24 May 2023
  • The regional planning agency collects just over $50 million a year from the South Bay Expressway and the toll lanes of Interstate 15.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The restaurant will be divided into two parts, where one side will serve regional dishes a la carte and then the other will have a tasting menu.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 22 Sep. 2023
  • This exhaustive guide to her native North Carolina shows the depth and breadth of regional Southern food.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Enrollment has held steady, which is rare for a regional campus when so many others struggle to fill seats.
    — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
  • García is nominated for best regional song, and León is in the running for best norteño album.
    — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2023
  • He will be replaced by Richard Teng, the company’s global head of regional markets.
    — Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
  • If the regional office confirms the original charges, the case will move onto the national office.
    — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • David Sears has recently taken on the role of regional executive chef for the restaurant group.
    — Jenny Hartley, Charlotte Observer, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The stage shifts to North Ridgeville, which has been the host to several big playoff games — including regional finals involving Avon — but now gets a showcase matchup for the home team.
    — Matt Goul, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Local blackouts due to regional sports streamers are another issue the combined app will have to deal with.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Concern remains high that the fighting between Israel and Hamas might set off a regional conflict that could be even harder to contain.
    — Eric Nagourney, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Culturally, like its vast regional footprint, the league was known for proudly doing things its own way.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Iranian media attributed the sharp drop in the value of the rial to the escalation of regional conflicts.
    — Rosa Rahimi, CNN, 28 Feb. 2024
  • No regional/national chains on our list, so that excludes worthy wingers like Baumhower’s, Moe’s and (sigh) yes Publix.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Many people were passing through to recharge their phones and get something to eat, said John Montes, regional disaster officer.
    — Lisa Rathke, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2023
  • The Games have also pushed forward construction of what will become one of the largest metro stations in the region as part of a broader project to extend Ile-de-France’s regional train network by 120 miles.
    — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The Eagles still found a way to succeed, making the regional tournament in back-to-back seasons for the first time in program history in what many believed to be a rebuilding year.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Apr. 2024
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regional

2 of 2 noun
  • Vandy was the No. 1 seed, and the host of the regional.
    — Dave Clark, The Enquirer, 5 June 2023
  • The Eagles chose to play in the regionals and now there’s one game left in their season.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
  • This week marked the playing of the 2023 UIL team tennis regional meets.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2023
  • That means a guarantee one of the four regionals will have two Pac-12 teams.
    — oregonlive, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Along the way, the show took shots at Glee's clichés, constant talk of regionals, ridiculous mash-ups, and so much more.
    — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Along the way, the show takes shots at Glee's clichés, constant talk of regionals, ridiculous mash-ups, and so much more.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 3 Apr. 2020
  • The Bobcats are second in the Pairwise and appear to be a lock for a No. 1 seed in the Bridgeport regional.
    — Andrew Mahoney, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • What's the next highest streak, nine or something like that, regionals in a row?
    — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Curtis, who has become one of the best players at the regionals, was walked twice.
    — Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The sophomore shot a 72 at the regional to finish second.
    — Indystar Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 12 June 2023
  • Emers won the event last year with a jump of 6-foot-3 and was a heavy favorite after jumping 6-foot-7 at regionals.
    — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 27 May 2023
  • Boys tournaments begin in the district rounds on Feb. 3 while the girls will begin in the regionals on the same day.
    — Alex Harrison, The Enquirer, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Here's a look at each team's matchup and regionals ahead of Saturday.
    — David J. Kim, The Courier-Journal, 13 Mar. 2020
  • The Beavers will head to Denver as one of four national seeds in a nine-team regional, to be held March 30-April 2.
    — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The top four seeds in each of four regionals are guaranteed first- and second-round home games.
    — oregonlive, 7 Mar. 2020
  • Bellarmine is the only sub-.500 team still alive in the NorCal boys regionals.
    — Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The threshold remains 350 miles for the regionals and Final Four.
    — Noah Trister, ajc, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The Razorbacks and Cornhuskers both were the home team in their Friday games by virtue of being the regional's No. 1-2 seeds.
    — Bob Holt, Arkansas Online, 6 June 2021
  • Carey said this year’s team is stronger than a year ago, in part because of a poor showing during the first day of last year’s regionals.
    — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Williams’ brother Luke, a sophomore guard, added nine points for the 12th-seeded Huskies, who were the state’s lowest seed to win a regional.
    — Patrick Z. McGavin, chicagotribune.com, 2 Mar. 2022
  • But that team got swept out of the Oklahoma State regional in Andy Stankiewicz's last season as head coach.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 27 May 2023
  • As of now, the regionals — as well as the state gymnastics meet at Ball State — will proceed, but without fans.
    — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 12 Mar. 2020
  • The Huskies, playing in their fourth straight regional, appeared to have control of the game after scoring four runs in the fifth inning.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 3 June 2022
  • The brothers' teams just so happen to be playing at the same site, but in different regionals.
    — Noah Trister, ajc, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Instead, a core kind of lending for many of the large regionals is to enterprises.
    — Telis Demos, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Cintas Center will host eight teams in the Xavier regional from July 21-24.
    — Shelby Dermer, The Enquirer, 21 July 2023
  • As results continue to roll in, investors will be watching for signs of how regionals have fared since the crisis in the spring.
    — Gina Heeb, WSJ, 19 July 2023
  • The competitive battle is likely to force the regionals to merge to gain the cash flows and scale necessary to ward off the attack.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 14 Jan. 2020
  • The Trojans’ 85-51 rout of Kansas on Monday in the second round of the West regional was stunning in its thoroughness.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Last season, Sierra Canyon won this game but lost to Etiwanda in the regionals.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024

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