How to Use downstream in a Sentence

downstream

adverb or adjective

• Many of the deaths occur in cars swept downstream.
  — Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
• Bike paths downstream of the gage will be flooded.
  — Star-Telegram Weather Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Mar. 2026
• Bike paths downstream of the gage will be flooded.
  — Star-Telegram Weather Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Mar. 2026
• Ota’s remains were found downstream from the canal, the charges say.
  — Sara Jean Green, The Seattle Times, 4 Dec. 2018
• And then there was a lot of economic pain that came downstream.
  — Kevin Townsend, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2020
• Cast upstream and drift to straight downstream over bottom weeds and rocks.
  — Bill May, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 20 Mar. 2021
• From there just work your way downstream, around boulders and past a series of pools.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 5 July 2023
• From there just work your way downstream, around the boulders past the series of pools.
  — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 28 June 2018
• Rescue crews searched the river downstream and found the two rafters, deputies said.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 10 June 2024
• The rest of the water is released downstream through the turbines and crest gates.
  — Matt McKinney, Star Tribune, 15 May 2021
• Then load the fish onto trucks, drive them downstream and dump them back into the water.
  — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 31 Oct. 2023
• The agency said there was no threat of flooding downstream and the flow of water was shut off.
  — Richard Ramos, CBS News, 13 Feb. 2026
• His parents told Outside that he was found miles downstream from where he was last seen.
  — Outside, 20 Feb. 2026
• Each spring, adult alewives spend about two weeks spawning in the lake, before heading downstream to the sea.
  — James Prosek, National Geographic, 14 Aug. 2020
• The broken sheets of ice flow downstream until they get stuck at narrow points, sharp bends, or bridges.
  — Ahmad Bajjey, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2026
• Just downstream of our 2-acre gravel bar, a hard current seam cleaves the river.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 9 June 2020
• The boats eventually were pinned to the riverbank or went over a dam downstream.
  — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 15 May 2024
• Deputies said the women were also trying to save the man when they were carried downstream.
  — Vincent Medina, Sacramento Bee, 8 July 2024
• Some of the juvenile fish hatch and swim downstream, while others remain for a year.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• Portions of a paintball playing field just downstream of the bridge begin to flood.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 12 Feb. 2025
• Sometimes, parts of the levees break off and start to be carried downstream in the lava flows.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2012
• The victims were said to be murdered, their cargo hauled downstream for sale by the pirates.
  — Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
• Days later, Alicia's body was found about 2 miles downstream from the ranch.
  — Janelle Griffith, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026
• However, the son lost his grip from the branch and was carried downstream with the current.
  — Cathy Kozlowicz, jsonline.com, 13 Aug. 2025
• Without the belt, the waders became a water sack as fast water filled them, pulling him downstream.
  — Julia Daye, Miami Herald, 18 June 2024
• Dennis was encouraged by the fact that a railroad bridge spanned the creek a few yards downstream from the road.
  — Max Londberg, kansascity, 8 Apr. 2018
• In fact, Briggs said crews often guess how long ice will float downstream through the system.
  — Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 25 Mar. 2026
• Enemies captured alive would be marched down to the river and shot, their corpses left to float downstream.
  — Jocelyn C. Zuckerman, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
• That meant most of the water flowed downstream unused, because the crops weren’t mature.
  — John Fialka, Scientific American, 6 June 2018
• Striped bass are moving up and down the system, and a big push of fish should be coming back downstream within a week.
  — sacbee, 23 Apr. 2018