up the river in English

in jail, in prison; to jail, to priso

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1. We saw your yacht on our way up the river.

2. We went twenty kilometers inland,(sentence dictionary) up the river.

3. Oh, the Boy Scout's gathering the right kindling up the river.

4. Oh, the Boy Scout' s gathering the right kindling up the river

5. Nine years up the river, and you get better-looking, you big animal.

6. 24 They dammed up the river to make a lake for their water supply.

7. Up the river to the highlands or, if they could afford it, to the seashore.

8. They decided that their water conservancy project this winter was to bank up the river.

9. Sterlitamak was founded in 1766 as a port for the distribution of salt mined up the river.

10. Halfway up the river the ship became embroiled in the Amethyst Incident, when Chinese Communist gun batteries opened fire on the frigate.

11. Due to the steepness of the Chelan River canyon, anadromous fish were not able to migrate up the river to Lake Chelan even before the dam was built.

12. The waterways connect Omsk with the coal and mineral-mining towns further up the river in Kazakhstan, as well as with the oil, natural gas and lumber operations of northern Siberia.