Sentence examples for facing upstream from inspiring English sources

Left side (facing upstream) of Yele Dam.

We watched them slip back into the turbulent river, ride the current then turn to hold station facing upstream, waiting for the river to deliver food.

I reeled in a three-inch trout and Martin unhooked it and put the fish gently back in the water, facing upstream.

He had gone down facing upstream with water pouring into his waders and was extricated from that position by his guide, John Marshall.

Probably at the end of the Tertiary, the cave, open at the bottom of the valley slope and facing upstream, began to be filled with alluvial deposits from the valley.

It's an oddly stately endeavor: the practitioners more or less surf in place, facing upstream and doing 360s and cutbacks across the face of the oncoming but stationary wave.

The dog is faced upstream and bathed in a river and rubbed with the crushed leaves of seven different plants (sometimes the plants used have no other distinguishing characteristic).

Under normal operating conditions the nacelle would be facing the upstream wind direction [20].

Under normal operating conditions the nacelle would be facing the upstream wind direction [ 20].

The SRS is a concrete-faced (upstream face), rock-cored, earthen dam about 550 m long, 56 m high, 21 m wide at the crest, and has a 122-m-wide armored spillway; its upstream catch basin is 13 km 2 in area and was designed to hold back about 200 million m 3 of sediment (USACE Portland District, unpublished data).

Pointing downward into the wave, face upstream, you had a fantastic impression of speed.