Sentences with 'downriver'
Example sentences and phrases with the word downriver and other words derived from it.
• « Steamboats could travel faster and cheaper than sailing or keelboats, which floated downriver and had to be rowed or towed upriver on the return trip. »
• « The phrase "to be sold downriver", used by Harriet Beecher Stowe in her 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, refers to this forced migration from the upper southern states to the deep south below the Mississippi to grow cotton. »