Sentence examples for upriver from inspiring English sources

The word "upriver" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is located nearer to the source of a river, rather than its mouth. For example: "I'm going upriver to visit my grandparents."

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upriver

adjective

Towards the source of a river.

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Llanberis Falls is a few hundred metres upriver from Llanberis town centre and Snowdon Mountain Railway, whose trains travel to the summit of Snowdon, which at 3,560ft 1,085mm) is the highest mountain in England and Wales.

Many Matsés are also opposed to Lot 135 and Lot 137 because of the IPVI living upriver on both sides of the border who have almost no interaction with outsiders and could be decimated by contact with oil company personnel.

Despite the recent troubles in town and the men's subsequent actions, the defence claimed their intention was not to harass Aboriginals, but to check if it was possible to drive to the old Telegraph Station, 6km upriver.

The area below Hungerford bridge, 120 metres upriver from the undercroft, has been earmarked as a possible replacement, with three architectural practices now having produced designs for the site, which will be discussed at a consultation event next weekend.

A trip upriver, past the china clay docks, is an Arthur Ransome-style adventure.

Many people living upriver from the dam without long-term residence permits have not been counted or compensated.

Nearby residents say water quality upriver has visibly worsened.

HISTORICALLY the 160-acre LeBreton Flats, just upriver from Ottawa's Parliament Buildings, has been a place of both war and peace.

It has built cargo ports, commissioned lots of new barges and plans to expand upriver, in Sudan.Geography's most obvious gift to Egypt, though, is its location.

Recently, anglers and river owners have been increasingly worried that fewer and fewer salmon have been travelling upriver.

A Dutchman, Gerritt van Wuysthoff, struggled upriver as far as Vientiane in 1641.

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