How to Use the Deep South in a Sentence

the Deep South

noun
  • As for the Deep South, expect a heat wave.
    Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Oct. 2025
  • And long ago, both were raised on the wrong side of the poverty line in the Deep South.
    Longreads, 8 July 2025
  • For those of us in the Deep South, widespread freezing rain and sleet is the concern.
    Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • But there are still some old phones (and plenty of outlaws) floating around in the Deep South.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 20 Aug. 2025
  • More severe weather is in store for this week in the Heartland and the Deep South.
    Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Think cowboy hat hauls and Western boot try-ons, most of which are from the Deep South herself.
    Lucy Maguire, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
  • New Orleans had the largest market for enslaved people in the Deep South.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
  • 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
  • While the blues has no single origin story, the Deep South is certainly one of the places it was born.
    Emma John, AFAR Media, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Many medium-sized conifers can't handle the heat and humidity of the Deep South.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Surging racial terror violence across the country, worst in the Deep South.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
  • In the Deep South, family and community ties run deep.
    Lindsay Baach Friedmann, Time, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The bald cypress is native to much of the Gulf Coast and across riverine swamps of the Deep South.
    Connor Giffin, Louisville Courier Journal, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Panicle hydrangeas are robust plants that thrive in the hot and humid summers of the Deep South.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Panicle hydrangeas are robust plants that thrive in the hot and humid summers of the Deep South.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Panicle hydrangeas are robust plants that thrive in the hot and humid summers of the Deep South.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Fall is the best time in the Deep South when temperatures are lower to help prevent plants from bolting.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The extreme heat will continue into the weekend for parts of Texas and the Deep South.
    Max Golembo, ABC News, 27 June 2023
  • South In the Deep South, temperatures are trending high.
    Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 May 2026
  • But college in the Deep South required a handbook I’d never been given.
    Lane Scott Jones, Longreads, 25 June 2024
  • 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
  • Robert, an American truck driver in his 50s, lived in a trailer park in the Deep South.
    Monica Liu, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2023
  • They were forced on kidnapped and sold Africans who were brutally crammed into ships as well as in slave markets in the Deep South.
    Terry Tang, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
  • Overnight lows are forecast to be in the 40s and 50s even across parts of the Deep South and Gulf Coast.
    ABC News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • There is a saying that college football is like a religion in the Deep South, as much a part of a fan's identity as their faith.
    The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2026
  • In general, schools in the Northeast start later, schools in the Deep South, earlier.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Fairbanks, who was Black and Seminole, was born in the Deep South at a time when ice rinks were segregated.
    Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Plants can flower as early as December in the Deep South for a delightful winter treat.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Plants perform best with light afternoon shade in the Deep South and benefit from soils on the drier side during the winter months.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 29 May 2026
  • 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

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