How to Use downriver in a Sentence

downriver

adverb or adjective

• As was the case downriver, the fish were showing but not biting.
  — Monte Burke, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2017
• Be sure to keep your feet up and pointed downriver to avoid getting your feet stuck in submerged rocks.
  — Peter Reese, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2017
• This is a stand-alone store and the first downriver Chick-fil-A restaurant.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 30 Dec. 2019
• The spill stayed on the water's surface and flowed quickly downriver.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• The Guthrie Theater, just over a mile downriver, is a quick Uber ride away.
  — Elaine Glusac, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2018
• Until this Halloween, when gusty winds and strong rains pushed the wreck further downriver.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 6 Nov. 2019
• Most of these are downriver from the 69 bridge, in waters best reached by drifting in a kayak or canoe.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 4 Dec. 2019
• This outfit will bus people up to day-long or overnight river trips that means complete downriver paddlings.
  — Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
• The hurricane deck was blown away, and the boat, splintered and twisted, began to sink and float downriver.
  — Jeff Suess, Cincinnati.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• Riverside rents small boats with electric trolling motors, and will arrange downriver pickup for those who want.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 4 Dec. 2019
• Two miles downriver in Milwaukie, 12-year-old Gavin Stott could not sleep.
  — Nancy Rommelmann, Good Housekeeping, 29 June 2018
• Egypt wants Sudan’s support in the Nile dam dispute, as both nations are downriver from the project.
  — Elias Meseret, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2019
• One such project is the remake of the derelict McLouth Steel site in downriver Trenton.
  — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2018
• The concrete bridge connecting the two sides had collapsed and floated downriver in a flash flood triggered by Maria.
  — Ivan Watson, Jo Shelley and Patrick Gillespie, CNN, 28 Sep. 2017
• About 15 miles downriver from the falls the river enters Lake Ontario.
  — Gary Garth, USA TODAY, 10 June 2019
• In the river, the forest green cap of a mallard cruised by, the duck taking advantage of a swift current from spring rains to carry it downriver.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2020
• It will be built just downriver from the shipyard site, near the IMTT terminal.
  — Greg Larose, NOLA.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• Before the river was tightly controlled, its course would shift and widen, eating away banks and sending soil and sediment downriver.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• But when the Dalles Dam just downriver was finished, in 1957, Celilo Falls was drowned.
  — Sallie Tisdale, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• Or get in on the action yourself by signing up for events like a 10K trail run, fly-fishing contest, and downriver kayaking sprint.
  — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 18 May 2018
• In the movie, two boatmen drinking in a tavern look out the window and see a mother and daughter on a swing, then proceed to seduce them by taking them for a ride downriver.
  — Thomas Hine, Philly.com, 3 May 2018
• In one town, residents strung a cable across a river to ford it in knee-deep water because the bridge connecting the two sides had been washed a football field's length downriver.
  — Patrick Gillespie, CNN, 2 Oct. 2017
• He was last seen Friday near river mile 167 on a beach downriver from National Canyon.
  — Perry Vandell, azcentral, 30 June 2019
• Pulling from the bow and stern at once, the tugs maneuvered the Magestic downriver like a log in a stream as the skippers communicated over two-way radios.
  — Rowan Moore Gerety, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• The twin domes of Dominion’s Surry nuclear plant are visible across and downriver from Jamestown.
  — Washington Post, 18 July 2019
• 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.
  — Scott Craven, azcentral, 9 July 2018
• At least some tougher-than-usual restrictions may be in store for salmon fishing from Longview downriver because of a poor forecast for Cowlitz River springers.
  — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 20 Feb. 2018
• But on Sunday, not far downriver from that bridge, the family crossed a popular bike and jogging path and walked down a slope through the brush to the edge of the Rio Grande.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2019
• The last victim, Maria’s husband, Miguel, was found days later, four miles farther downriver, spotted from the air on a leg of the Verde far from roads or footpaths.
  — azcentral, 15 May 2018
• Two cars remained atop the train bridge, visible to residents in the area, according to Dan Lee, who lives downriver in Perryville.
  — Jessica Anderson, The Aegis, 3 Mar. 2018