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Example sentences for "down stream"

  • Beavers commonly leave stuffy house and spend summer vacation miles up or down stream.

  • Overland this place was only half a mile from the Broken Tree, but by water route, down stream to the forks then up the other stream to the colony, the distance was three miles.

  • From his den beneath the roots of a tree, near a stream bank or lake shore, he may go twenty miles up or down stream; or he may traverse the woods to a far-off lake or cross the watershed to the next stream, miles away.

  • His thought was that she must have gone right on down stream, though he might have divined from his own condition that she, too, long since must have been weary.

  • List of Illustrations: The illustation "Down Stream, from the original drawing.

  • Lonely thou lookest up stream (and) down stream; lonely thou lookest.

  • Lonely thou lookest up-stream (and) down stream.

  • Experiments were made in which the plank weir was inclined up or down stream, the crest being sharp and the end contraction suppressed.

  • That is, down stream A0A1 tends to a direction perpendicular to the bed.

  • He was fighting a fish which seemed to the astonished boys to be not less than ten feet in length, and the fish was pulling him down stream.

  • New Madrid is north from here, all right, but it is down stream, for all that!

  • They seemed to redouble their exertions when the Rambler shot over toward the boy, but were obliged to halt when the boy was picked up and the boat went on down stream, towing the willow mattresses in her wake!

  • Then they might have been swept on down stream?

  • The barn swept on down stream, turning around and around, as the boat went past it, the cow's head appearing at each turn, thrust through the window.

  • Well, it looks to me as if this flood was going to get worse, and if we go down stream, where the river is wider, we may not be able to pull through.

  • Down stream it was all plain sailing; and Dick's duty was light enough, as it consisted merely in keeping the dug-out head foremost in the middle of the river.

  • Our craft was once more headed down stream, and we scrutinised every winding of the banks in search of another pair of gleaming eyes.

  • Although the stream was narrow, the current was strong and rapid, and just as the raft had got near the middle the towing line snapped, and away went the whole baggage down stream.

  • A canoe carrying four men was coming down stream, and while I was asking myself if we might not have come upon more British spies, the old man settled back with a sigh of relief.

  • We can whittle out a plan while the pungy is slippin' down stream, as well as if she was made fast here.

  • The boat has not been gone from here above ten minutes, therefore it is likely to be some time before the traitor comes down stream.

  • In a foul wind flies cock and float more easily than in a down stream wind; so this, at any rate, is in your favour.

  • Keep nearly level with him, or down stream of him if you can, and get the weight of the water acting against him as well as the weight of the line.

  • Down stream now he rushes; he will soon exhaust himself at that game.

  • The men were soon afloat, and when the morning dawned they were more than thirty miles farther down stream.

  • The current was exceedingly swift and deep, but though it carried us down stream a long distance, we reached the western bank without serious difficulty.

  • Horsemen were in waiting at the right, or down stream side, to assist in keeping the cattle from drifting.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "down stream" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been found; both male and female; brilliantly lighted; down along; down and; down before; down from; down house; down river; down south; down stairs; down the; down there; down town; down upon; down yonder; loud voice; mamma dear; national prosperity; note book; nothing had; parliamentary democracy; persons were; similar situations; what came; wild rose