Sentence examples for heading upriver from inspiring English sources

The boat rolled easily through the glassy wakes of freighters heading upriver.

During that period, which falls in June and July, Mr. Hederman smokes the shining fish as they are delivered by fishermen, who catch them on lines trailed from small punts when the fish gather offshore before heading upriver.

In Revolutionary times, it was the western anchor point for the Hudson Chain, strung across the river by Washington to ensnare British ships heading upriver to Albany and Kingston.

Things start jovially enough in bohemian Berlin, where everyone appears to be living in a reality TV show anyway, but by the time our heroic trash humpers start heading upriver in the Amazon to liberate the rainforests with new age erotica, the tribespeople aren't the only ones wanting to send them away with a flea in their ear.

The visitor stayed 1 night before heading upriver, then returned a couple of weeks later, leaving behind a necklace of fish bones as a gift.

One reason for the steady flow of politicians heading upriver from Westminster may be a lesson of history, it adds: Clement Attlee's Labour government's failure to deal with flooding in 1947 cost it crucial seats and the loss of power in the 1950 general election.

So we headed upriver for clearer water.

We climbed into one of the motorboats and headed upriver.

In fact, I hardly even noticed when my fly line jumped slightly and headed upriver.

One morning, I headed upriver, where the Margaree grows more sylvan and intimate, resembling an Adirondack trout stream.

In 1929, two Ford employees, Johansen, a Scot, and Tolksdorf, a German, headed upriver with orders to collect rubber seeds.