How to Use downstream in a Sentence

downstream

adverb or adjective
Definition of downstreamnext
  • Then the project will move downstream along the Willow Fork to SH 99.
    — Karen Zurawski, Houston Chronicle, 18 July 2019
  • Ota’s remains were found downstream from the canal, the charges say.
    — Sara Jean Green, The Seattle Times, 4 Dec. 2018
  • The rest of the water is released downstream through the turbines and crest gates.
    — Matt McKinney, Star Tribune, 15 May 2021
  • The campground at the Seneca Bridge was around 12 miles downstream from the put-in, a roughly six-hour float.
    — Carson Vaughan, Outside Online, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Rescue crews searched the river downstream and found the two rafters, deputies said.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 10 June 2024
  • The small lake was formed by a dam just downstream from the spring at what's now Mammoth Spring State Park.
    — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 29 Nov. 2020
  • The plant was forced to close in 2021 when the record-low water levels were too low to flow downstream.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 19 June 2023
  • From there just work your way downstream, around the boulders past the series of pools.
    — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 28 June 2018
  • So when the glacier is great enough to lift the glacier, the water escapes the basin and flows downstream, Jacobs said.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2023
  • And then there was a lot of economic pain that came downstream.
    — Kevin Townsend, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2020
  • As Jeff crossed one glassy creek, wind sent him careening downstream and slammed him to the surface of the ice.
    — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2022
  • From there just work your way downstream, around boulders and past a series of pools.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 5 July 2023
  • Cast upstream and drift to straight downstream over bottom weeds and rocks.
    — Bill May, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Jesus pointed downstream, where a log lay across the brook.
    — Jay Martel, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
  • 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
  • Then load the fish onto trucks, drive them downstream and dump them back into the water.
    — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The adults had life jackets with them but were not wearing them at the time, and the life jackets floated downstream with the kayaks.
    — Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 30 June 2024
  • And at least some of those water savings could trickle downstream to the Great Salt Lake.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The body had washed downstream and eventually came to rest on a log near a bridge over the creek, Sterling said.
    — Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati.com, 23 Dec. 2019
  • The boats eventually were pinned to the riverbank or went over a dam downstream.
    — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 15 May 2024
  • Just downstream of our 2-acre gravel bar, a hard current seam cleaves the river.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 9 June 2020
  • The victims were said to be murdered, their cargo hauled downstream for sale by the pirates.
    — Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
  • Deputies said the women were also trying to save the man when they were carried downstream.
    — Vincent Medina, Sacramento Bee, 8 July 2024
  • That meant most of the water flowed downstream unused, because the crops weren’t mature.
    — John Fialka, Scientific American, 6 June 2018
  • In layman’s terms, the acidic mine waste could leak downstream and into the greater Bristol Bay ecosystem.
    — Popular Science, 8 June 2020
  • Flows from even downstream of the dam were so intense, the Army Corps had to delay releases from the reservoir for days.
    — Scott Dance, Anchorage Daily News, 22 July 2023
  • The group had planned on floating the camp a few miles downstream on private land east of the town of Portland, officials said.
    — Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 15 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
  • Marquis: How does yerba mate move downstream in your supply chain?
    — Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
  • When this happens there is no blood flow downstream, which means no oxygen delivery.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 1 Aug. 2024

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