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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
state line
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Jenkins was arrested for illegally transporting explosives across state lines.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Adams wheeled around at the state line and took off at high speed for Oglala, about fifteen miles away.
▪ Around 1920, he established a practice just across the state line in Copperhill, Tenn.
▪ Consequently, the riders were escorted to the state line where Mississippi patrol cars took over.
▪ Invariably, she is richer after meetings at her local track, Oaklawn, just across the state line in Arkansas.
▪ When the train reached the New 160 Hampshire-Massachusetts state line, it stopped again.
WordNet
state line

n. the boundary between two states [syn: state boundary]

Gazetteer
State Line, ID -- U.S. city in Idaho
Population (2000): 28
Housing Units (2000): 12
Land area (2000): 0.062233 sq. miles (0.161184 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.062233 sq. miles (0.161184 sq. km)
FIPS code: 77050
Located within: Idaho (ID), FIPS 16
Location: 47.705131 N, 117.037933 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
State Line, ID
State Line
State Line, MS -- U.S. town in Mississippi
Population (2000): 555
Housing Units (2000): 230
Land area (2000): 4.267558 sq. miles (11.052923 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.034110 sq. miles (0.088344 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.301668 sq. miles (11.141267 sq. km)
FIPS code: 70320
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 31.437799 N, 88.476104 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 39362
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
State Line, MS
State Line

Usage examples of "state line".

My preference was to get a second order of execution every time I crossed a state line.

Freeway, but going to Las Vegas meant crossing a state line, and you had to have a reason for that.

It turns into a country road that'll take you clear the fuck to Winfield, and from there it's less than twenty miles to the state line.

In any kind of smash and grab, the object is to cross a state line as quickly as possible.

Mary stopped at a gas station near Kimball, twenty-five miles east of the Wyoming state line, and she filled the Cherokee's tank and bought a pack of glazed doughnuts and black coffee in a plastic cup.

But it was likely that she had taken a more direct route through Weston and Milton-Freewater, and then crossed the state line into Washington and up to Walla Walla.