Downriver

"Downriver" in a Sentence (5 examples)

I got soaked boating downriver.

During the 1800’s, keelboats were used for both upriver and downriver navigation, propelled using either oars or poles, while flatboats could only go downriver.

Lulu Island in ancient times was in the territory of downriver Halkomelem, a Salishan Amerindian language. Much of Lulu Island was mud.

My house is downriver to his.

It is easier to paddle downriver.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.