How to Use mid-Atlantic in a Sentence

mid-Atlantic

adjective
  • In the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast, highs reached the 40s.
    Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The ranges are the high pressure ridge in the mid-Atlantic and the trough of low pressure pushed by the jet stream.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
  • At the same time, cold rain will move up through the mid-Atlantic and into the Northeast by the evening.
    Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2024
  • By Tuesday evening, the storm will move up the coast, bringing heavy rain to the mid-Atlantic.
    Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 25 Dec. 2023
  • The smoke is expected to spread through the mid-Atlantic in the coming days, as well.
    Devika Rao, The Week, 9 June 2023
  • Over the weekend, the heat wave is expected to shift east to the mid-Atlantic and the Southeast.
    Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 5 July 2024
  • Beyond its mid-Atlantic roots, the chain has a heavy footprint in the Sunbelt, as well as in Texas and the Southwest.
    Greg McKenna, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Fast-forward to Thursday and the record warmth shifts into the mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
    Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2024
  • There is the potential risk for hail, strong winds, heavy rain and isolated twisters for the mid-Atlantic.
    Janice Dean, Fox News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The wind, pouring off a low-pressure zone in the mid-Atlantic, was slicing through the drizzle in the village of Blacksod.
    Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
  • As much of the U.S. contends with snow and cold weather, record warmth is expected to hit the mid-Atlantic and Southeast.
    Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Showers were forecast to move into the Northeast and the mid-Atlantic on Sunday evening and overnight.
    Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2024
  • More could be issued in the coming days for other parts of the Northeast and chillier spots of the mid-Atlantic.
    Mary Gilbert, CNN, 14 Oct. 2024
  • And Monday, 45 million people are at risk of damaging winds from the Gulf Coast to the mid-Atlantic.
    Kathryn Prociv, NBC news, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Those in mid-Atlantic states will be striking for one day while those in western states will be striking for three days.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2023
  • On the electoral map, Harris held Pacific coastal states and north and mid-Atlantic states.
    Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Somewhere mid-Atlantic, the Northern Lights appeared just above the inky-black horizon.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Rain and thunder will also hamper the pleasure in sections of the mid-Atlantic, Southeast, and Gulf Coast.
    Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
  • This invasive import from Europe has been found in the mid-Atlantic and will skeletonize and strip leaves.
    Rebecca Bull Reed, Southern Living, 10 June 2024
  • This all comes after a deadly winter storm brought snow and ice from the Midwest to the mid-Atlantic and freezing temps lingered in the South over the weekend.
    Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 7 Jan. 2025
  • But it's caught the attention of a larger audience throughout the South and mid-Atlantic.
    Heather Bien, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Showers will linger for parts of the mid-Atlantic on Saturday, but the region will slowly begin to dry out.
    Mary Gilbert, CNN, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The rain was much needed as parts of the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast are under moderate drought conditions.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 1 May 2023
  • Millions of shorebirds migrate along the Atlantic coast, and many stop in spring, when horseshoe crabs spawn on mid-Atlantic beaches, to feed on the crabs’ eggs.
    Kristoffer Whitney, Fortune Well, 13 Oct. 2023
  • But, if that isn't enough to sway you to make the trek to St. Michaels, consider that this town of 1,020 residents is essentially the Hamptons of the mid-Atlantic.
    Perri Ormont Blumberg, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Warmer than normal air will stick around through the weekend for much of the mid-Atlantic, but colder air will arrive next week for the Northeast and start to cool off the rest of the Eastern Seaboard, too.
    Mary Gilbert, CNN, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The remainder of the rain and storms from the system exited the mid-Atlantic early Monday but wet weather was to linger in the Northeast into the evening.
    Robert Shackelford, CNN, 17 Mar. 2025
  • More than 1200 players entered the massive event, which drew from healthy communities all up and down the mid-Atlantic.
    Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • But the parasite’s range seems to be expanding into the mid-Atlantic, according to a new paper published last month in the Journal of Medical Entomology.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2025
  • Warning notices advising pilots and mariners to steer clear of the test area indicated the missile and its hypersonic glide vehicle were supposed to splash down in the mid-Atlantic Ocean hundreds of miles north and northeast of Puerto Rico.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 26 Apr. 2025

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