Example sentences for: downriver

How can you use “downriver” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Manure, for instance, was shipped downriver by heaping it on ice floes during the spring thaw.


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