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Example sentences for "downriver"

Lexicographically close words:
download; downpour; downpours; downright; downrightly; downs; downstairs; downstream; downthrow; downtown
  1. The trading season was well underway, and over the past three weeks a motley assemblage of cargo vessels from the length of the Indian Ocean had appeared downriver at the bar to commence unlading.

  2. Goods would be transferred to barks for the trip downriver to the bar, where they would be loaded aboard a waiting Portuguese frigate.

  3. The American fort, Auguste remembered, was at the mouth of the Rock River, six miles downriver from Saukenuk.

  4. He skidded the boat to a halt on the bank a short distance downriver from Wolf Paw.

  5. He was riding with the advance of Giltner's brigade, double-quicking it downriver to Keller's Bridge.

  6. Sure, easy as driftin' downriver on one of them theah steamers.

  7. He said if he didn't hear from me, he'd send some soldiers downriver to look me up.

  8. I decided to come downriver to see who was spying on me.

  9. In the morning I will go downriver again, below where I was.

  10. Then he went downriver until he came to Avi-halykwa'ampa.

  11. Most of the waters are acid from far up toward their source, as we have seen, and downriver this acid is enriched with other things, a situation that has existed for so long that hardly anyone recalls when the streams were much different.

  12. Like the meek, the upper estuary inherits the earth, or at least that part of the Basin's earth that is washed downriver as silt.


  13. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "downriver" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.