downriver
with or in the direction of the current of a river: logs floating downriver.
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How to use downriver in a sentence
She’s the last boat to run the rapid, and those of us on the downriver side watch wide-eyed as she manages to right her raft and liberate it from the rapid’s hold.
Finding solace — and splashes aplenty — on Colorado’s Yampa River | Rachel Walker | August 4, 2022 | Washington PostSo, for efficient access to dirt, we drive two miles east then pedal a mile of the Greenway downriver, past warehouses and along the edge of a modest neighborhood to Morningside Park.
In Roanoke, Va., discovering a gateway to outdoor adventure | John Briley | June 4, 2021 | Washington PostAcross the train tracks and downriver from Newblock, the Canes was another area of interest.
To find answers about the 1921 race massacre, Tulsa digs up its painful past | Helen Thompson | May 27, 2021 | Science NewsThe rope breaks and Farquhar swims downriver and into a forest, and from there he begins a journey back to his wife and his home.
Carsten Stroud’s Book Bag: My Top Five Horror Classics | Carsten Stroud | July 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThey made it in a heavy downriver gale with an accompaniment of slashing rain that soaked every one to the skin.
The Boss of Wind River | David Goodger (goodger@python.org)
I scouted around amongst them, found a good canoe, took three black men and set out downriver.
Up the Mazaruni for Diamonds | William La VarreUmas-kwitšit-patše's people went back downriver to Selye'aye'-kumitše.
Seven Mohave Myths | A. L. KroeberOnce more, he looked at the iron cliffs opposite him, then glanced downriver.
Millennium | Everett B. ColeBefore the sun had risen very high they had entered the mouth of Buffalo and were going downriver at a good pace.
The Mystery Hunters at the Haunted Lodge | Capwell Wyckoff
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