How to Use downstream in a Sentence

downstream

adverb or adjective

• And then there was a lot of economic pain that came downstream.
  — Kevin Townsend, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2020
• Just downstream of our 2-acre gravel bar, a hard current seam cleaves the river.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 9 June 2020
• The body had washed downstream and eventually came to rest on a log near a bridge over the creek, Sterling said.
  — Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati.com, 23 Dec. 2019
• The campground at the Seneca Bridge was around 12 miles downstream from the put-in, a roughly six-hour float.
  — Carson Vaughan, Outside Online, 27 Jan. 2020
• In layman’s terms, the acidic mine waste could leak downstream and into the greater Bristol Bay ecosystem.
  — Popular Science, 8 June 2020
• Water then went downstream to Sanford Lake, spilling over Sanford Dam.
  — Angie Jackson, Detroit Free Press, 20 May 2020
• But by the time the unlucky Ngandong individuals died and were washed downstream in a flood, the world around them was changing.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 18 Dec. 2019
• The gates will allow the city to release more water out of Lake Houston without causing more harm to residents downstream.
  — Savannah Mehrtens, Houston Chronicle, 31 Dec. 2019
• The water has to be released eventually, worsening the flooding for people living downstream.
  — Rogelio V. Solisand Michael Warren, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Feb. 2020
• Dodd said the 5-year-old’s body was found about 3 miles downstream of the crossing, which had been closed hours before the truck tried to cross Friday despite barricades and warning signs.
  — Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2019
• Sometime later, a flood sent water coursing through the cave, shifting many of the man’s smaller and lighter bones downstream but leaving the larger and heavier ones behind, underneath a light blanket of dirt.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 15 June 2020
• The rest of the water is released downstream through the turbines and crest gates.
  — Matt McKinney, Star Tribune, 15 May 2021
• Rescue crews searched the river downstream and found the two rafters, deputies said.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 10 June 2024
• The small lake was formed by a dam just downstream from the spring at what's now Mammoth Spring State Park.
  — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 29 Nov. 2020
• The plant was forced to close in 2021 when the record-low water levels were too low to flow downstream.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 19 June 2023
• So when the glacier is great enough to lift the glacier, the water escapes the basin and flows downstream, Jacobs said.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2023
• As Jeff crossed one glassy creek, wind sent him careening downstream and slammed him to the surface of the ice.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2022
• From there just work your way downstream, around boulders and past a series of pools.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 5 July 2023
• Cast upstream and drift to straight downstream over bottom weeds and rocks.
  — Bill May, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 20 Mar. 2021
• Jesus pointed downstream, where a log lay across the brook.
  — Jay Martel, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
• Each spring, adult alewives spend about two weeks spawning in the lake, before heading downstream to the sea.
  — James Prosek, National Geographic, 14 Aug. 2020
• Then load the fish onto trucks, drive them downstream and dump them back into the water.
  — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 31 Oct. 2023
• The adults had life jackets with them but were not wearing them at the time, and the life jackets floated downstream with the kayaks.
  — Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 30 June 2024
• And at least some of those water savings could trickle downstream to the Great Salt Lake.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Feb. 2022
• The boats eventually were pinned to the riverbank or went over a dam downstream.
  — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 15 May 2024
• The victims were said to be murdered, their cargo hauled downstream for sale by the pirates.
  — Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
• Deputies said the women were also trying to save the man when they were carried downstream.
  — Vincent Medina, Sacramento Bee, 8 July 2024
• Flows from even downstream of the dam were so intense, the Army Corps had to delay releases from the reservoir for days.
  — Scott Dance, Anchorage Daily News, 22 July 2023
• The group had planned on floating the camp a few miles downstream on private land east of the town of Portland, officials said.
  — Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 15 July 2024
• Four populations live upstream of Lake Powell, with one living downstream of the lake, in the Grand Canyon.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024

Last Updated: 22 Sep 2024