upriver in English

adverb
1
toward or situated at a point nearer the source of a river.
the salmon head upriver to spawn
adverb

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1. Someone's coming upriver.

2. Circumspectly upriver, Barton fay hydrosulphide and Baaings gaseousness

3. The only way into the guerrilla zone from there is upriver

4. Juana and her son are among those boarding the boat to go upriver.

5. 25 Contrary to what she expected they poled upriver, far away from the rowboat Amy had found.

6. We provide Backhauling services from Lees Ferry upriver to just below the Glen Canyon Dam

7. • Tell him we will go upriver, to the Cheng Clan in the Su Sung Tai.

8. Eventually there will be an iron chain which can be raised between them to prevent the passage of any boat upriver.

9. Today, ocean freighters can travel upriver as far as Portland and Vancouver, and barges can reach as far inland as Lewiston, Idaho.

10. Salmon are capable of going hundreds of kilometers upriver, and humans must install fish ladders in dams to enable the salmon to get past.

11. Bangui lies on the northern banks of the Ubangi River just below a series of rapids that limit major commercial shipping farther upriver, on …

12. The Victoria and Albert docks were constructed by the London & St Katharine Docks Company, to provide berths for large vessels that could not be accommodated further upriver.

13. 22 It may not entirely be a coincidence when in the afternoon we get in our speedy riverboat (it's a bit like a wide minibus) and visit some husky kennels upriver.

14. Barging in: BNSF brings new rail bridge upriver That’s what happened when BNSF floated in a new bridge to replace a century-old steel truss bridge over Drano Lake in Washington

15. Bangui (pronounced: bang-EE) is the capital of the Central African Republic.Bangui lies on the northern banks of the Ubangi River just below a series of rapids that limit major commercial shipping farther upriver, on the southern border.