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
- Nobody in that region refers to it as the Upcountry anymore.
- She went home and had known that they had to move upcountry.
- He had to go upcountry for his job and found Mituna's mother.
- In Darien raftsmen saw a world far different from the drab upcountry.
- Ms. Suu Kyi was arrested after another trip upcountry eight years ago.
- A regional office based in Lahore caters for upcountry shipping requirements.
- Its other upcountry campus is located in the city of Mbarara in estern Uganda.
- If you go to a goat farm, you might as well go to one in the "upcountry" of Maui,
- If you go to a goat farm, you might as well go to one in the "upcountry" of Maui, Hawaii.
- I know that Capetonians call upcountry tourists "Vaalies" - the name deriving from the old Transvaal.
- A hat like that could take a man anywhere in 90% of the world - in the backwaters and towns, on the wharves and docks, even in the mountains or upcountry outposts.
- And don't ask what had brought him and Alvaro to be sitting next to each other in the back of the rusted and rattling truck, bouncing through the upcountry jungles where gringos seldom went.
- In a mission that troopers quickly dubbed "Operation Ma Bell," special-forces officers called upcountry PDF garrison commanders on the telephone and told them to look out the window at the circling AC-130H Spectre gunships.
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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