Example sentences for: upriver

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

  • Follow the stream upriver and you come to the popular Pequena Fonte (Little Fountain) springs, where a restaurant and occasional folk dancing draw visitors.

  • Just upriver is Abrantes, with its own castle overlooking the town.

  • The huge blocks were hauled to the quaysides to be carried upriver.

  • Turn north at Hope to Yale, an old fort of the Hudson’s Bay Company, terminus of its stern-wheelers unable to negotiate the rapids upriver — at low water you can still see their ring tie-ups on the river bank.

  • They could not travel upriver because several sets of cataracts blocked passage and they did not know that the waters traveled from the heartland of Africa.


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