How to use "state" in a sentence

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe - the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

Champmathieu went home in a state of total confusion, thinking all men mad and understanding nothing of what had happened.

He suddenly realized that, in his feverish state, he had forgotten about the old man

Afterwards, they sat together on the garden bench in a state of shock, neither of them speaking

Marius left his grandfathers house in a state of despair, and returning to his room, fell asleep fully-dressed on the bed

Jean Valjean, at that moment, was in a state of terrible shock

In her unhappy state of mind, Cosette had forgotten to remove the page that she had used to blot the letter she had written to Marius

While in this state of despair, Valjean felt a hand on his shoulder

Marius lay for a long time between life and death in a state of fever, endlessly repeating the name of Cosette.

Finally, in a state of shock and confusion, the young man said, 'Why have you told me all this? No one forced you to.'

They say this is the case because Miss Lee was not in a sane state of mind when she killed Mr Dawson; they say that this crime was in defence of her sister

Nevada has fewer state laws on the books than any state in the nation

There's no state income tax at all

All the other parents were asked to identify their kids, even though some of the corpses were in such a horrible state they couldn't be cosmetically restored for viewing at a funeral

"In case you didn't know it, since the Cold War ended and California took such a big hit in the defense downsizing, Nevada has more Pentagon-supported industries and installations than any state in the union

This state's ideally suited for secret or quasi-secret, high-security weapons research centers

In the meantime, Network agents could have located a boy's body in the same state of decay, as Danny's corpse would have been if it had been locked in that coffin for the past year

While we're working so hard to keep ahead of our enemies, aren't we perhaps becoming more like them? Aren't we becoming a totalitarian state, the very thing we say we despise?"

Although he spent more than half his time working in his Las Vegas office, he often had reason to fly to far points at the spur of the moment: Reno, Elko, even out of the state to Texas, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah

They passed a few signs that told them the lane they were using was kept open for the exclusive benefit of federal and state wildlife officers and researchers

This broad shelf in the mountainside couldn't have been as large or as regularly shaped in its natural state as it was now: three hundred yards wide, two hundred yards deep, almost a perfect rectangle

They wouldn't want a lot of daily traffic coming in and out of here on a forest road that's supposed to be used only by state wildlife officers

I only get back to a more normal state when I recognize the voice at the other end and when I know what is wanted of me.

I found Miss Marple in a very excited state

And, in his confused state, he decided to confess.'