Sentence examples for an upriver from inspiring English sources

After checking into the hotel where T. had stayed, Hal prepares for an upriver hunt that will take him far from civilization.

I was later told spring runoff had been minimal and an upriver water control dam had been partly closed to raise the water level -- which was low for that time of year -- in Upper and Lower Richardson Lakes.

Yet, the efficacy of dam removal to restore migratory fish was shown in the Kennebec after the Edwards Dam fell; for the first time in more than a century-and-a-half, alewives, a species of herring, were able to access an upriver tributary, the Sebasticook.

When Théo and his companion Manduca (Yauenkü Migue) seek supplies at an upriver Catholic mission, they find "orphans of the rubber wars" being beaten into forgetting their native tongue by a priest who claims to be saving them from "cannibalism and ignorance".

An upriver dam, for example, continues to strangle the fresh water supply.

The North, however, angered South Korea last weekend when it released water from a dam upriver, causing a flash flood that killed six South Koreans.

Now sealed and closely monitored, the dump also happens to be half a mile upriver from a county water intake that supplied drinking water for my family and 45,000 other households.

Thompson had taken a boat and a guide upriver toward the Ituri forest.

As late as 1857, much of Kuching was destroyed and the Istana taken when 600 Chinese miners from an encampment upriver at Bau decided to take over Sarawak from Brooke.

We are bobbing about, an hour upriver from our expedition boat, the MV Aqua, at the rippling juncture of the Ucayali and the tea-dark Dorado River, a light rain pocking the water.

Six South Koreans were killed last month when North Korea released water from a dam upriver without notice, causing a flash flood.