How to Use upriver in a Sentence

upriver

adverb or adjective

• 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
• Three hundred miles upriver, Eagle Pass offers a tale of a far different border city.
  — Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024