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.

  • Pinhão, upriver from Régua (both the train trip and drive along the river in this stretch are stunning), is an enjoyable little town with deep connections to the port wine trade.

  • 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.

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

  • Instead they created a second city upriver — now the Garden District — using the plentiful land that once constituted sugar plantations.


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