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Example sentences for "downstream"

Lexicographically close words:
downright; downrightly; downriver; downs; downstairs; downthrow; downtown; downtrodden; downturn; downward
  1. He and Mr. Holloway shoved off and with deft, sure strokes paddled downstream toward the nearby Holloway cabin.

  2. Brad noted instantly that the paddle seemed to travel downstream much faster than the canoe and also at a quicker pace than other drifting objects nearby.

  3. On the downstream side of the mouth of Copper Mine Cr.

  4. The graveyard is on the downstream end of the same flat.

  5. On the S bank of the main Eel not far downstream from Dyerville.

  6. Goddard has the same name for the group, sEtcokiyahAn; he says the people occupied both the north and south sides of a one-mile stretch of North Fork beginning a little way below the mouth of Wilson Creek and extending downstream from there.

  7. About a mile downstream from Tish-Tang-A-Tang Cr.

  8. The village was on the W side a little downstream from this rock.

  9. A large village on the western side of the river a few hundred yards downstream from the mouth of djonkot.

  10. The outlook seems to have been chiefly downstream and inland.

  11. About a mile downstream from the point where the river turns W at Horseshoe Bend.

  12. On the right side and close to South Fork just downstream from a rocky point around which the river changes its direction from S to NW.

  13. On the NE side of the river stand two huge rocks, the upstream one called sE[-l]tcAnnAn, the downstream one sAnAn.

  14. N of the first creek downstream from North Fork on the E bank of the main Eel.

  15. On his map it is shown entering the Eel about a mile downstream from the mouth of Bell Springs Cr.

  16. This shelter was under a large rock which stood on the hillside a short distance downstream from no.

  17. Nine individuals were taken from Area 4 on 11 September; seven of these were marked and released in the next pool downstream (Area 3).

  18. This area includes a shallow riffle at both upstream and downstream ends of a pool 73 feet long and approximately one foot in average depth (Pl.

  19. The third group is characteristic of continuously flowing water, but in both upstream and downstream situations.

  20. At the lower Neosho station, this fish preferred slow eddy-current over silt bottom, along the downstream portion of a gravel bar.

  21. Pimephales vigilax (parrot minnow) was mostly in the quiet areas having mud bottom at the downstream end of gravel bars, and less commonly on adjacent riffles, at the lower station.

  22. The abundance in late fall at the lower Neosho station might have resulted either from downstream migration or from continued upstream movement into thinly populated areas.

  23. A second section two miles downstream (on land owned by Herbert White) was studied in the summer of 1959 (Sec.

  24. Only ten of the above gar were taken from the nets set above the riffle; six of the ten were captured as they moved downstream into the nets.

  25. Because I took young-of-the-year at the lower Neosho station, it is possible that long-nosed gar move upstream when small and then slowly downstream to the larger parts of rivers as the fish increase in size.

  26. While sending the boat with vigorous strokes flying downstream he drew her attention to this and that phase of devastation and commented on the beauty of the morning, but not a word as to his purpose.

  27. His course was necessarily downstream for, above the heap of stones where he had tied the Ida, the river washed against a wall on which a fly could scarcely have found foothold.

  28. When the rest have finished the patch, you and Agnew row downstream and see if you can pick up any wreckage from the Na-che.

  29. The news caused them to use despatch in their lading, so that by nightfall they were embarked again, and rowing downstream against the wind.

  30. The next day they went downstream again, over many more snags and shallows, which set them wading in the mud till their boots rotted off their feet.

  31. They did not do any damage to the adventurers, who rowed downstream a few miles, and then moored their boats for the night.

  32. The rest of the canoas were sent downstream to the anchorage at Bueno Cedro, where the chatas lay moored under a guard.

  33. One afternoon I had wounded a good wart-hog across the river, and had gone downstream to find a dry way over.

  34. They had moved downstream and crossed the river.

  35. Later, waded downstream to a hazel bush on the right bank beneath a shady oak.

  36. Crossing of the Colorado was at the Searchlight ferry, about forty miles downstream from old Callville.

  37. Supplies went by river to the mines, which sent downstream occasional shipments of ore.

  38. In 1881 they spent much money and effort on a plan to make a high dam at the site of the first construction, but this again was taken downstream by the river.

  39. He took me at my word, and at once led the way downstream to the site of our last camp on the river before we struck off into the mountains behind the Grand Peak.

  40. He turned to Brown: "You will find two of your fellows downstream at the old camp.

  41. Having no other choice, we dropped on downstream past the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers, to Fort Massac, our lonesome American stockade, built near the site of the old French post of the same name.

  42. The only advantage their method gave them was a knowledge of what they would meet with on the downstream run.

  43. Rowing downstream we found that the country sloped gently towards the mountains.

  44. Sometimes the deep water came when least expected, the sand-bars having a disconcerting way of dropping off abruptly on the downstream side.

  45. The canoe had broken away and floated downstream while she was asleep!

  46. Pulling downstream seemed like play after having come up, and going through the rapids with the current was a delirious delight.

  47. If we go downstream we are almost sure to find it by daylight.

  48. You remember that the day after our return a canoe was sent downstream to a point where the wooden bars could be beaten and heard by Suba's men, and that a warning against the Red Bones and Schwandorf was given in that way.

  49. But if the canoe had gone downstream from this spot, or from some spot on the left bank a little above it, there was nothing to prove that the Wyandotte had seen it.

  50. A short distance downstream from the Fort Stevenson site the course of the Missouri turns S.

  51. The reservation borders both sides of the river from here to a point a short distance downstream from Ree.

  52. Tour 8), and heads downstream with the current.

  53. And in that same flash he made up his mind that he would not discard the boat, as he had planned; he would conceal himself by day, and float downstream by night, until at last he came to Marette Radisson.

  54. The babiche rope, not half as large around as his little finger, had swung her to the downstream side of the rock.

  55. He saw Nasmyth, who had evidently lost his footing, driving downstream towards it, and knew that in another moment or two the logs would be upon him.

  56. Then he came up, and clutching it, held on while it swept downstream into a slacker eddy.

  57. So we will travel downstream for a while," answered Mehmet Ali and crossed his arms.

  58. There was a long silence during which the boat was carried downstream although it was kept in the middle of the river by skilful little movements of the boatman.

  59. There's a reason, Rose, why two logs go downstream better than one, and get into less trouble.

  60. We filled the rowboat with the small stuff and towed the saplings and started downstream that way.

  61. Illustration #5 "Roy dived after the key-bar" When we got up to the mill at North Bridgeboro, he got the barge and started downstream with the barge alongside.

  62. His line ran downstream and the float could be seen bobbing in the midst of the little bubbles that marked an eddy below.

  63. Looking downstream he could just see Ted busily engaged in landing a fish that seemed to be fighting hard, and this told that the bass were "on the feed," if only one knew how to attract them.

  64. There's one, at least, who wants the Tiger sent downstream with a white flag and my sword.

  65. With him on the ground you can no longer wait until nightfall to row downstream to the lady and the Santa Teresa.

  66. I rowed two miles downstream through the quiet darkness,--so quiet after the hubbub of the town.

  67. He went downstream no more than 2 or 3 miles, otherwise, as was his invariable custom, he would have specified his distances in leagues.

  68. Garces then went downstream "a little way" and found a rancheria (no.

  69. Two leagues downstream from rancheria no.

  70. The other party went downstream and found three villages close together on a spacious plain along the banks of the river.

  71. From El Portal to a point six or seven miles downstream Merriam has found no less than 15 villages.

  72. He then went downstream to the rancheria where he had crossed (no.


  73. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "downstream" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.