Sentence examples for called down the river from inspiring English sources

Her Whitney project is called Down the River, a riff on the slang for convicts sent up the Hudson to Sing Sing.

The flatboatmen then turned down the river to ferry Mathew's troops across the river.

"I call it the river," he said.

Or, as Mbalo calls it, the river.

Drift — as the big logs are called that unremittingly come down the river — amassed against the anchoring cables until enough had gathered to heave high and start breaking the cables.

Amy Adams, an organizer with a group called Appalachian Voices, who went down the river in a kayak after the spill, recalls navigating through "oozing sandbars of slag".

Steep, narrow alleys, called bartons, ran from the main street down to the river, along which I returned (clutching a Chinese).

An amendment to a seven-decades-old treaty between the United States and Mexico, called Minute 319, will send water down the river once again and support efforts to restore native habitat and attract local and migratory wildlife.

It's called the American river".

You know, "I'm not gonna sell my buddies down the river and call them incompetent," but also, it wasn't like they were trying to hide these stories either.

The watershed is known for this peculiar geography, and the Klamath has been called "a river upside down" by the National Geographic Society.