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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
One body was found stuck in the southern section of the buoys, and another body was found three miles upstream.
— Tara John, CNN, 3 Aug. 2023 -
Quickly the pilot banked the plane into the wind, heading back upstream.
— Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 11 Sep. 2024 -
Finally, the school of salmon that had been hunkered down near the Ugashik’s mouth surged upstream, and the state opened the river on July 19.
— Miranda Weiss, Wired, 13 June 2020 -
The slide created new rapids at the entry point, with sediment and mud continuing to shift, altering river conditions along a three-mile stretch upstream.
— Tom Howarth follow, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024 -
This last effort to mitigate flooding will affect dozens of communities both upstream and downstream in the Menomonee River watershed for the better, according to Schindler.
— Bridget Fogarty, Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2024
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