Definition of downriver
: toward or at a point nearer the mouth of a river
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The collision happened near Willow Grove Park, which is downriver of Longview, according to Petty Officer Amanda Norcross, a U.S. Coast Guard spokeswoman.
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The canyon walls rising on either side pale in comparison to the network of towers and buttes that reveal themselves downriver, where the river cuts further into the landscape.
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On July 5 and 8, American troops at Springwell shelled British guns at Sandwich, just downriver from today's Ambassador Bridge, according to the City of Windsor's web page.
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The friars dispatched Native American vaqueros, probably teenagers, to herd the animals 30 miles downriver to the Goat Ranch.
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Two miles downriver in Milwaukie, 12-year-old Gavin Stott could not sleep.
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The spill stayed on the water's surface and flowed quickly downriver.
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One such project is the remake of the derelict McLouth Steel site in downriver Trenton.
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A few miles downriver from the Fayetteville Works is the world’s largest hog slaughterhouse, once part of the Smithfield Foods empire and since 2013 controlled by a Chinese conglomerate.
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First Known Use of downriver
1760
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: in the direction in which a river flows
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