upriver
adverb or adjective
up·riv·er
ˈəp-ˈri-vər 
: toward or at a point nearer the source of a river
Examples of upriver in a Sentence
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Just upriver was a boat, loaded with equipment and fuel cannisters—a miner’s supply launch.
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Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Get a table overlooking the water, watch the barges putter past and daydream about continuing on a voyage upriver to the heart of South America.
—Laurence Blair, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
Three hundred miles upriver, Eagle Pass offers a tale of a far different border city.
—Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
Skipper's is moving from New Richmond to a new location about 50 miles upriver in Maysville, Kentucky, its owners announced Jan. 3.
—Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 6 Feb. 2024
What actually happened: Killing the birds drove the colony to a bridge several miles upriver, where the cormorants ate even more salmon than before.
—Tony Schick, ProPublica, 17 Nov. 2023
Trash streams onto the beach from villages upriver and washes up from marine dumping around the Caribbean.
—Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
Plaisance's home and Marinovich's restaurant are in the Buras community, roughly 60 miles southeast of New Orleans and 20 to 30 miles upriver from where the Mississippi flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
—Kevin McGill and Stephen Smith The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2023
Farmers putting crops onto the Arkansas River in Pine Bluff and Pendleton will have a small delay getting to the Gulf of Mexico and a delay in bringing steel products, feed and fertilizer products upriver, though many customers will keep a 30- to 45-day inventory on hand, Shell said.
—Cristina Larue, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2023
Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Get a table overlooking the water, watch the barges putter past and daydream about continuing on a voyage upriver to the heart of South America.
—Laurence Blair, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
Three hundred miles upriver, Eagle Pass offers a tale of a far different border city.
—Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
Skipper's is moving from New Richmond to a new location about 50 miles upriver in Maysville, Kentucky, its owners announced Jan. 3.
—Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 6 Feb. 2024
What actually happened: Killing the birds drove the colony to a bridge several miles upriver, where the cormorants ate even more salmon than before.
—Tony Schick, ProPublica, 17 Nov. 2023
Trash streams onto the beach from villages upriver and washes up from marine dumping around the Caribbean.
—Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
Plaisance's home and Marinovich's restaurant are in the Buras community, roughly 60 miles southeast of New Orleans and 20 to 30 miles upriver from where the Mississippi flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
—Kevin McGill and Stephen Smith The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2023
Farmers putting crops onto the Arkansas River in Pine Bluff and Pendleton will have a small delay getting to the Gulf of Mexico and a delay in bringing steel products, feed and fertilizer products upriver, though many customers will keep a 30- to 45-day inventory on hand, Shell said.
—Cristina Larue, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2023
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upriver
adverb or adjective
up·riv·er
ˈəp-ˈriv-ər
: toward or at a point nearer the start of a river
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