upcountry
IPA: ˈʌpkʌntri
noun
- The interior of the country.
adjective
- Living or situated remote from the seacoast
adverb
- Towards the interior of the country and away from the seacoast.
up-country
IPA: ˈʌpkʌntri
adverb
- to or in the interior of a country or region
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Examples of "upcountry" in Sentences
Examples of "up-country" in Sentences
- My wife and I loaded camping and fishing gear in the truck and made a long trek up-country.
- All up-country travels to and from Kampala should be cancelled until the situation is restored to calm.
- But he remembered his wife and children, his unfinished book, the ten thousand rolling acres of the up-country ranch he loved so well.
- One of the reasons for my visit was because Rod had invited me to go up-country with him – to further explore the railway as far as the Burma border.
- He sent his wife and child to stay up-country, "so that they won't have to share the fate of the rest of us Bangkokians in the eventual scarcity of foods and water supply," he said.
- Bhavinee Teerasawat, a civil servant who joined the big street sweep, said she'd felt lost in her own city when red shirts, many of them from up-country, seized an ever widening swath of the Thai capital.
- Three days after they arrived, the royal couple travelled up-country to Sagana and from there they drove after lunch on 5 February to Treetops, the game-viewing lodge built in a tree overlooking an elephant waterhole.
- Mr. Musumba told reporters in Kampala on Friday that party leaders fear state agents could harm Mr. Besigye after he was remanded in an up-country prison after being arrested in Kampala on Thursday while leading protests against high food and fuel prices.
- The up-country peasants who flocked to Bangkok were joined in the red shirt camp by foreign-educated intellectuals, former officials and -- via video-link from an undisclosed location abroad -- a multi-billionaire, Thailand's ousted prime minister, Thaksin Shinwatra.
- By obtaining control of a certain up-country bank, two general stores, and several logging camps, he could come into control of a certain dinky jerkwater line which shall here be nameless, but which, in his hands, would prove the key to a vastly larger situation involving more main-line mileage almost than there were spikes in the aforesaid dinky jerkwater.
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