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downstream

If mathx/math is downstream from mathy/math, mathx/math and mathy/math are on or beside a river and the water moves from mathy/math to mathx/math. London is downstream from Oxford on the River Thames. He stood on the bridge dropping leaves into the water and watching them float downstream.

downstream

(= downriver) away from the source or with the current in the direction of a stream's current

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Simple sentences

Our camp is about 5 miles downstream from here.
Tom lives downstream from Mary.
We canoed downstream.
Tom floated downstream on a raft.

Movie subtitles

The raftsmen were oblivious of the strange cargo they piloted downstream.
You can let your thoughts drift downstream. till they carry your troubles clean outta sight.
Keep 'em downstream!
Keep downstream!
We just picked up a few strays downstream.
But if we're going downstream, why do we need the engine at all?
Seems that the Dutchman wants us to move the Witch downstream. Might be the chance of throwing the sergeant overboard.
He isn't crazy enough to head downstream, is he?
I was halfway there when I met Gruber coming downstream.
You go downstream there, and I'll go up the draw here.
I wonder how far downstream she drifted since the massacre.
Further downstream, sir.
I take it we all agree that if we're to avoid disaster we build a new bridge, at the site picked by Reeves, 400 yards downstream.
New construction downstream from first site.
Keep them downstream!
But if we're going downstream, Mr. Allnut, why do we need the engine at all?
Seems that the Dutchman wants us to move the Witch downstream.
Further downstream, sir. Across those narrows.
We'll set the charges against the piles about three feet underwater, I should think and run the main wire downstream to the plunger.
I hid her downstream on the river bank.
Me and the wife found an abandoned trailer downstream.
I wish a peach would come bobbing downstream.
You said somethin' before we hadn't oughta forget: I'm headin' upstream and you're headed downstream.
I'll see you downstream.
I think downstream would be a good idea, don't you?
What if somebody downstream fancies a nice fish?
A mile downstream there's a beach and boats.
They're diving downstream, searching the riverbanks.

News and current affairs

Profits for drug traffickers downstream will be almost 20 times that amount.
Shifting to corn not only reduces water consumption; it also cuts the amount of pollution that reaches city residents downstream.
Likewise, a September 2013 report by IHS concludes that midstream industries like transportation and downstream industries like manufacturing and chemicals are also receiving a massive stimulus.
It should facilitate further incorporation of Gazprom into the EU market through market liberalization and downstream integration.
In fact, it was cheaper only because it passed some of its costs on to others - for example, to people who lived downstream or downwind from the factory farms, and could no longer enjoy clean water and air.
Higher value-added sectors and functions that are upstream and downstream from processing industries will also need to flourish.
The efficiency savings of academia occur downstream from the activities of the universities themselves.
The very downstream access Gazprom wants in Europe is the EU's trump card.
The EU should tell Gazprom that access to Europe's downstream assets is conditional on the reciprocal openness of Russia's energy sector.
Before such hydro-engineering projects sow the seeds of water conflict, China ought to build institutionalized, cooperative river-basin arrangements with downstream states.
Such leverage could in turn prompt a downstream state to build up its military capacity to help counterbalance this disadvantage.

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