upper reaches

Example Sentences

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Baldy changes after a winter storm, when the upper reaches are blanketed in snow and ice and a slip in the wrong place can lead to a catastrophic, unstoppable fall.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

The upper reaches of the market also survived a crucial testing this fall.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

Starting in 2018, the research team carried out extensive field surveys in the upper reaches of the Dadu River.

From Science Daily • Oct. 30, 2025

What the move really shows is that there are now two types of club in the upper reaches of the world’s richest soccer league.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 2, 2025

Donovan had inspected a jagged hole in the upper reaches of one of the walls by the light of his pocket flash.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov