How to Use upriver in a Sentence

upriver

adverb or adjective
Definition of uprivernext
  • Farther upriver, on the east bank of the Seine, lies Giverny, Monet’s home for the second half of his life.
    — National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
  • From there, the teams headed upriver on a 55-mile trip to Fairbanks.
    — Emily Mesner, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Not far upriver, a couple of young men from the rival village sat in a canoe in the shade of a tree.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The city plans to build a pipeline that would pump in fresh water from about 12 miles upriver, the statement said.
    — Allie Weintraub, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The party over, Mr. Mottor left his girlfriend and got a ride to his truck, a few miles upriver.
    — Stacy Cowley, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Partway through the trip, their motorboat breaks down, and they are forced to pole more than 200 miles upriver in a scow.
    — Krista Langlois, Outside Online, 6 Feb. 2020
  • But by April 25, the weather had turned fine in St. Louis, where the steamboat Omega stood alongside the wharf, its bow pointed upriver.
    — William Souder, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018
  • The hike will continue upstream for about four hours, the team will then set up a camp and take more samples upriver for three days.
    — Laura Millan Lombrana, Bloomberg.com, 20 Dec. 2017
  • That Saturday night, when the boat was about 30 miles upriver from the city of Wuhu, Meyer was seen by a cabin boy making for the deck.
    — Adrian Higgins, The Seattle Times, 17 Sep. 2018
  • An Army agent goes upriver into the heart of Cambodia to kill a renegade colonel.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Heading upriver from camp is even more calm, and can get paddlers deep into the middle of nowhere.
    — Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
  • The salmon is swimming upriver in search of a spawning ground, leaping over obstacles in its rush to get there.
    — Ashleigh Young, The Cut, 2 July 2018
  • Salmon runs are a phenomenon when the fish head back upriver to the spot they were introduced in order to spawn.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 10 Sep. 2019
  • The site of Robinette, several miles upriver, soon was gone.
    — Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 11 Jan. 2018
  • This year, more than 2,600 lamprey were counted making the journey upriver to breed.
    — Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 13 June 2018
  • Chinook live two or three years in the Pacific Ocean before adult fish head back upriver to lay their eggs and die, starting the cycle anew.
    — Ryan Sabalow, sacbee, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Check out the antique tugboat moored alongside, which pushed the barge upriver from San Francisco 40 years ago.
    — Al Pierleoni, sacbee, 18 May 2018
  • As for the whale itself, experts are still unable to determine why the cetacean and its travel companions swam upriver in the first place.
    — Gabrielle Chung, PEOPLE.com, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Most eventually left and headed back toward the mouth of the Kenai without seeing any of the whales that far upriver.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 28 Apr. 2021
  • The Associated Press reported the body was found three miles upriver from the buoys.
    — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The influx fueled a stunning growth spurt, even as tens of thousands of rural dwellers upriver were displaced.
    — Anthony Faiola, Washington Post, 28 June 2019
  • That seems to be about as far upriver as this expedition of discovery can go.
    — al.com, 30 June 2019
  • Nepal opened a huge dam upriver, sending a torrent downstream.
    — Suhasini Raj and Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
  • The new map expanded flood zones further upriver and along creeks and streams, such as the unnamed tributary that runs less than a half-mile from Steve Butts' house in Oakley.
    — James Pilcher, Cincinnati.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The scientists are traveling upriver in a big motorized boat that looks like an open-air school bus.
    — Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2017
  • What actually happened: Killing the birds drove the colony to a bridge several miles upriver, where the cormorants ate even more salmon than before.
    — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 17 Nov. 2023
  • His crew, heading upriver, met with the crew from Crooked Creek, heading downriver, led by Timmy Zukar.
    — Anna Rose MacArthur, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The imperial sailors were heading upriver against the flow, maybe rowing.
    — Melinda Morris, NOLA.com, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Trash streams onto the beach from villages upriver and washes up from marine dumping around the Caribbean.
    — Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Thousands of anglers, customers of guides, and those in their own or friends’ boats, moved upriver with the closure to fish for a fall chinook run now believed to be nearly twice its projection.
    — oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2022

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