How to Use upstream in a Sentence

upstream

adverb or adjective

• Five of the floating bombs were dropped upstream of the bridge.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2023
• These need to cover the whole business and not just upstream.
  — Wood MacKenzie, Forbes, 3 June 2021
• This allows longer casts upstream or down to drift the worm just above the bottom.
  — Bill May, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 20 Mar. 2021
• Crews searched upstream and downstream, on foot, by boat and using drones.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Apr. 2021
• The tom was about halfway from the top and on the edge of the pines, facing upstream.
  — Thomas Weddle, Outdoor Life, 17 Apr. 2025
• The Snellings’ boat, pushed upstream by long poles, became stuck in some trees.
  — Curt Brown, Star Tribune, 19 Sep. 2020
• The saltwater wedge starts at the mouth of the river and moves upstream.
  — Eric Zerkel, CNN, 26 Sep. 2023
• The rocks create a series of rapids and small cascades upstream from the falls.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2021
• Our primary method is to troll small stickbaits upstream at very low speed.
  — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 25 Jan. 2026
• After going upstream, the victim tried to swim back to shore but got stuck in the mud.
  — oregonlive, 9 July 2020
• Kruse followed the path upstream, searching for the rest of the creature.
  — Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2022
• For the time being, though, Canoo is still paddling upstream.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 12 July 2022
• Each spring, salmon migrate upstream from the ocean to the chilly headwaters of rivers to mate.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 30 Dec. 2023
• The river begins to overflow its banks in some areas upstream of the gage site.
  — Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 13 May 2025
• The storm that causes the water to flow could be miles upstream of your location.
  — Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 3 June 2020
• One arm is raised as if in a wave to Sevnica, her hometown, about 5 miles upstream.
  — Palko Karasz, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2019
• The idea was to stop the lampreys from getting upstream during their spring spawning run.
  — Katie Thornton, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
• Walking the pole from stern to bow would propel the boat downstream, if the bow were pointed upstream.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
• Quickly the pilot banked the plane into the wind, heading back upstream.
  — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 11 Sep. 2024
• One body was found stuck in the southern section of the buoys, and another body was found three miles upstream.
  — Tara John, CNN, 3 Aug. 2023
• Flip the flies upstream at a 45-degree angle, and raise the rod to remove any slack.
  — Popular Science, 26 Oct. 2020
• Bear Creek is very clean thanks to little, if any farm runoff upstream, Ormiston said.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2022
• Between stops, stroll along Creek Street and watch salmon push upstream through the heart of downtown.
  — Josh Rivera, USA Today, 13 May 2026
• Suckers were spawning upstream, and the trout kept coming into the pool in schools to feed on the drifting spawn.
  — Robeson Bailey, Outdoor Life, 11 June 2025
• Today, more water needs to make its way all the way down through rivers and dams far upstream of the lake, Abbott said.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2023
• Just upstream from Cochem is Beilstein, the quaintest of all Mosel towns.
  — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2023
• Across the street from the parking lot is Inkwells, a steep and rocky part of the creek where determined fish jump their way upstream.
  — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Jan. 2023
• The team must carry the cargo on their backs, reload it onto the boats, and push upstream again—repeating the process over and over.
  — Richard Conniff, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
• And the ripple effects of even small changes start with one person, one action, one commitment to move upstream.
  — Literary Hub, 18 Feb. 2026
• Likewise, dead pool upstream at Lake Powell could dry up the Grand Canyon.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2022