upriver
in the direction of or nearer the source of a river: It's hard to paddle a canoe upriver; an upriver settlement of tribes.
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How to use upriver in a sentence
It was a close choice between Jezero Crater and a highland, “upriver” region nearby called Nili Planum, Mustard says.
First Martian rock samples from Perseverance edge closer to settling water question | Leto Sapunar | September 17, 2021 | Popular-ScienceHe’s never had any of his family on it — he tells them to rent if they want a boat ride upriver.
For decades, every morning at 6, Dubey has rowed upriver, alone and in silence.
In the 1950s, when the current bridge was being planned, the club persuaded the state to move it upriver to better spare Plummers Island, according to a history of the Beltway published by the Montgomery County Historical Society.
Biologists say a wider American Legion Bridge would destroy critical research site | Katherine Shaver | December 11, 2020 | Washington PostMoving the bridge upriver, farther from the island, would affect other “significant resources,” Brookman said.
Biologists say a wider American Legion Bridge would destroy critical research site | Katherine Shaver | December 11, 2020 | Washington Post
A few hundred meters upriver, you see groves of date palms swaying as if underwater.
Whatever You Do Someone Will Die. A Short Story About Impossible Choices in Iraq | Nathan Bradley Bethea | August 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn a rather unfortunate coincidence, the chemical plant is just upriver from a water intake facility.
In West Virginia Water, an Environmental Nightmare Borders on Crisis | Michael Tomasky | January 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAfter her rescue and a year in exile upriver, she had rethought her vow never to return.
Nancy Shando, a librarian from nearby Hurley, New York, headed upriver on her jet ski Friday afternoon to take a closer look.
Ive got you to thank that my logs are here to-night, instead of somewhere upriver.
The Boss of Wind River | David Goodger (goodger@python.org)The starting out place for the trip was twenty miles from Georgetown at a town upriver called Bartica.
Up the Mazaruni for Diamonds | William La VarreI discovered that the first part of our trip upriver was not as full of adventures as I had hoped.
Up the Mazaruni for Diamonds | William La VarreAll the people in the vicinity were afraid and ran northward, upriver, abandoning their food and dishes and property.
Seven Mohave Myths | A. L. KroeberAustin swept his gaze upriver, but could only see the shadowy mangroves, for the moon had not come through yet.
For Jacinta | Harold Bindloss
British Dictionary definitions for upriver
/ (ˈʌpˈrɪvə) /
towards or near the source of a river
an area located upstream
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