How to Use upstream in a Sentence

upstream

adverb or adjective

• Five of the floating bombs were dropped upstream of the bridge.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2023
• The saltwater wedge starts at the mouth of the river and moves upstream.
  — Eric Zerkel, CNN, 26 Sep. 2023
• Kruse followed the path upstream, searching for the rest of the creature.
  — Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2022
• The Snellings’ boat, pushed upstream by long poles, became stuck in some trees.
  — Curt Brown, Star Tribune, 19 Sep. 2020
• The races end 7½ miles upstream at the Washington Street Bridge in Hanover.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2019
• This allows longer casts upstream or down to drift the worm just above the bottom.
  — Bill May, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 20 Mar. 2021
• These need to cover the whole business and not just upstream.
  — Wood MacKenzie, Forbes, 3 June 2021
• The rocks create a series of rapids and small cascades upstream from the falls.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2021
• But even that’s swimming upstream in the rivers of coaching.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 21 Nov. 2021
• Each spring, salmon migrate upstream from the ocean to the chilly headwaters of rivers to mate.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 30 Dec. 2023
• Flip the flies upstream at a 45-degree angle, and raise the rod to remove any slack.
  — Popular Science, 26 Oct. 2020
• After going upstream, the victim tried to swim back to shore but got stuck in the mud.
  — oregonlive, 9 July 2020
• Just upstream from Cochem is Beilstein, the quaintest of all Mosel towns.
  — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2023
• A few yards upstream, his wife, Katie Green, was minding more poles.
  — Freep.com, 23 May 2021
• The Ohlone people lived upstream for thousands of years.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 21 Nov. 2020
• Across the street from the parking lot is Inkwells, a steep and rocky part of the creek where determined fish jump their way upstream.
  — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Jan. 2023
• The 40-acre island would be built just upstream of the dam with the sand and mud the corps dredges out of the lock to keep it open for navigation.
  — Greg Stanley, Star Tribune, 16 Nov. 2020
• There’s a good trout rising 35 feet upstream at 11 o’clock.
  — Darrell Kunitomi, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• Our project lies 20 river miles upstream from the nearest point of the BWCA.
  — Julie Padilla, Star Tribune, 20 Dec. 2020
• For the time being, though, Canoo is still paddling upstream.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 12 July 2022
• One arm is raised as if in a wave to Sevnica, her hometown, about 5 miles upstream.
  — Palko Karasz, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2019
• Walking the pole from stern to bow would propel the boat downstream, if the bow were pointed upstream.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
• Crews searched upstream and downstream, on foot, by boat and using drones.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Apr. 2021
• Today, more water needs to make its way all the way down through rivers and dams far upstream of the lake, Abbott said.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2023
• The storm that causes the water to flow could be miles upstream of your location.
  — Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 3 June 2020
• But in the deep sea, a starfish even just a few inches upstream from a potential mate won’t know it’s there.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
• Likewise, dead pool upstream at Lake Powell could dry up the Grand Canyon.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2022
• The temporary dam is still what holds back the water about 10 miles upstream from the Crimean border.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2021
• By August, all four dams were gone, freeing the river to carry on the work of healing itself, and providing migrating salmon a clear route upstream for the first time in more than a century.
  — Jeff Moag, Outside Online, 3 Dec. 2024
• Following the water upstream, the villagers discovered the source of the problem: a crumbling bridge sending person after person into the rapids.
  — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Jan 2025