How to use in-sentence of “up the river”:
– Without a direct trail, they would have to travel a great distance southeast to Yuma, then north up the river to La Paz.
– Burton, James: “Excerpta Hieroglypica”, Plate Ia, Cairo, 1825 In 1843, a German group directed by egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius was traveling up the River Nile to Karnak.
– It is said that London was made capital of Roman Britain at the spot where the tides reached in 43 AD, but different things have pushed this spot farther up the river in the over 2000 years since then.
– The plotters then took the opportunity to row the gunpowder up the River ThamesThames from Catesby’s house in Lambeth, to hide it in their new rented house: they had learned that a coal merchant named Ellen Bright had vacated a ground-floor undercroft directly beneath the House of Lords chamber.
– Prindle came up the river in a keel boat named the “Dutch Lady.” He took government land on the site of the present city.
– In 1942 this site was seen to be still too far up the river and being flooded too often, so the village moved to its current site.
