upriver
IPA: ʌprˈɪvɝ
adjective
- Towards the source of a river.
adverb
- Towards the source of a river.
- Against the current.
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Examples of "upriver" in Sentences
- Case in point, a few beavers had taken up upriver from a campground.
- Interestingly, American shad do not feed on their journey upriver from the Atlantic Ocean.
- The HARNETT COUNTY was anchored on the Bassac River some 2000 yards upriver from the Naval Supply
- The work is scheduled to begin upriver, to protect the lake from aquatic weeds washed downriver during the height of the coming rainy season.
- About 600 yards upriver from the landing, EN2 Cota fell over the port side of the LCM at a point about 300 yards from the south bank of the Bassac River.
- Records say it was built roughly a year after Britain's King James sent a crew of around 100 men, including Captain John Smith, to establish an outpost 40 miles upriver from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay.
- More than 400,000 gallons of thick industrial fuel oil spilled just upriver from the Crescent City Connection in the collision early Wednesday morning between a tanker and a barge being pulled by a tugboat.
- DRD, a company based a few miles upriver from the French Quarter, was charged with violating the Ports and Waterways Safety Act and the Clean Water Act. The charges against DRD and Dantin, 46, were contained in two separate bills of information, which typically signal a plea deal.
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