How to Use downriver in a Sentence

downriver

adverb or adjective

• This is a stand-alone store and the first downriver Chick-fil-A restaurant.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 30 Dec. 2019
• The Guthrie Theater, just over a mile downriver, is a quick Uber ride away.
  — Elaine Glusac, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2018
• One such project is the remake of the derelict McLouth Steel site in downriver Trenton.
  — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2018
• But when the Dalles Dam just downriver was finished, in 1957, Celilo Falls was drowned.
  — Sallie Tisdale, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• As was the case downriver, the fish were showing but not biting.
  — Monte Burke, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2017
• Most of these are downriver from the 69 bridge, in waters best reached by drifting in a kayak or canoe.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 4 Dec. 2019
• Two miles downriver in Milwaukie, 12-year-old Gavin Stott could not sleep.
  — Nancy Rommelmann, Good Housekeeping, 29 June 2018
• The spill stayed on the water's surface and flowed quickly downriver.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• It will be built just downriver from the shipyard site, near the IMTT terminal.
  — Greg Larose, NOLA.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• Be sure to keep your feet up and pointed downriver to avoid getting your feet stuck in submerged rocks.
  — Peter Reese, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2017
• The hurricane deck was blown away, and the boat, splintered and twisted, began to sink and float downriver.
  — Jeff Suess, Cincinnati.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• About 15 miles downriver from the falls the river enters Lake Ontario.
  — Gary Garth, USA TODAY, 10 June 2019
• Egypt wants Sudan’s support in the Nile dam dispute, as both nations are downriver from the project.
  — Elias Meseret, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2019
• Until this Halloween, when gusty winds and strong rains pushed the wreck further downriver.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 6 Nov. 2019
• But on Sunday, not far downriver from that bridge, the family crossed a popular bike and jogging path and walked down a slope through the brush to the edge of the Rio Grande.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2019
• Jack staked out 500 feet on the left fork of Henderson Creek and boated downriver to file his mining claim in Dawson City.
  — Smithsonian, 24 Oct. 2019
• The concrete bridge connecting the two sides had collapsed and floated downriver in a flash flood triggered by Maria.
  — Ivan Watson, Jo Shelley and Patrick Gillespie, CNN, 28 Sep. 2017
• In the river, the forest green cap of a mallard cruised by, the duck taking advantage of a swift current from spring rains to carry it downriver.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2020
• The last victim, Maria’s husband, Miguel, was found days later, four miles farther downriver, spotted from the air on a leg of the Verde far from roads or footpaths.
  — azcentral, 15 May 2018
• What’s new: A $7.3 million expansion is in the works that will extend the water park a half-mile stretch downriver to Veterans Pond.
  — Dana Oland, idahostatesman, 21 May 2018
• Or get in on the action yourself by signing up for events like a 10K trail run, fly-fishing contest, and downriver kayaking sprint.
  — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 18 May 2018
• Pulling from the bow and stern at once, the tugs maneuvered the Magestic downriver like a log in a stream as the skippers communicated over two-way radios.
  — Rowan Moore Gerety, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• He was last seen Friday near river mile 167 on a beach downriver from National Canyon.
  — Perry Vandell, azcentral, 30 June 2019
• This outfit will bus people up to day-long or overnight river trips that means complete downriver paddlings.
  — Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
• In the movie, two boatmen drinking in a tavern look out the window and see a mother and daughter on a swing, then proceed to seduce them by taking them for a ride downriver.
  — Thomas Hine, Philly.com, 3 May 2018
• Two cars remained atop the train bridge, visible to residents in the area, according to Dan Lee, who lives downriver in Perryville.
  — Jessica Anderson, The Aegis, 3 Mar. 2018
• Riverside rents small boats with electric trolling motors, and will arrange downriver pickup for those who want.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 4 Dec. 2019
• Rocca joined Harris 500 miles downriver, near his hometown of St. Louis.
  — CBS News, 7 July 2019
• In 1711, this new town of Mobile will be relocated downriver to be perched upon the bay’s western shoulder.
  — al, 28 Nov. 2019
• Three hundred miles downriver, in Valmeyer, Ill., some of those who stuck around in the lowlands after the Great Flood of 1993 are packing up tools and hat collections and racing to higher ground.
  — Julie Bosman, New York Times, 3 June 2019

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024