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Example sentences for: downriver

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Manure, for instance, was shipped downriver by heaping it on ice floes during the spring thaw.
Freighters moved cotton, tobacco, and sugar downriver and worldwide.
Régua was once the main port used to ship young wines downriver in barcos rabelos (flat-bottomed wooden boats) to Vila Nova de Gaia.
Behind the hotel, beyond an 1898 statue of Samuel de Champlain, the city’s founder, Dufferin Terrace offers a magnificent view over the St. Lawrence and downriver to the Ile d’Orléans.
Traditionally port wine was shipped downriver in oak barrels loaded on barcos rabelos (flat-bottomed square-sailed boats) to be stored in the cool and damp port lodges (merchants’ warehouses) in Vila Nova de Gaia, across the river from Porto.