How to Use high ground in a Sentence

high ground

noun

• The moral high ground is to buy the book from the Strand.
  — Howard Fishman, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2019
• That’s how the movement captured the moral high ground and won the mind of the nation.
  — David Brooks, Star Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
• Holmes has one of the top sinkers in the big leagues, which results a high ground-ball rate.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 27 July 2021
• There’s room in court for the city of San Antonio to take the moral high ground.
  — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Apr. 2021
• And in the Venice that Arbus conjures, no one stakes out the moral high ground.
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
• Promontory is an area of high ground at the north end of the Great Salt Lake.
  — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 June 2022
• It was rebuilt on the high ground where the state Capitol now stands.
  — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 25 Oct. 2020
• Built to be able to leave the road behind, the Scout 80 has four-wheel drive and a high ground clearance.
  — WSJ, 19 Dec. 2021
• No one can claim the moral high ground in a debate over whose side is less wrong!
  — Star Tribune, 18 Jan. 2021
• And just like that, Everyman Phil lost the high ground.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 18 May 2022
• In recent years, the moral high ground has gotten a bit shaky.
  — Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2021
• Blue Origin should have strictly stuck to the high ground.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 19 July 2021
• At the same time, occupation moved Adams to the moral high ground.
  — Stacy Schiff, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
• To prevail against its rogue neighbor, the E.U. must take the legal and moral high ground.
  — Jill Goldenziel, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
• Though the Democrats held the moral high ground, the Republicans had the election law on their side.
  — Gideon Cohn-Postar, The Conversation, 1 Nov. 2019
• Now southern countries, among them Greece, Spain and Italy, were able to take the moral high ground.
  — New York Times, 26 July 2022
• Above, a boy tries to dry his soaked schoolbooks on a patch of high ground in Sylhet on June 21.
  — Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• The researchers put on flame-resistant shirts and hard hats, and Dr. York, as the burn boss, led the group to an area of high ground.
  — New York Times, 7 Sep. 2022
• Williams said the entire riverbed started taking fire from the high ground.
  — David Martin, CBS News, 30 Oct. 2019
• Those who live toward the southern end would be about eight miles away from high ground.
  — New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
• What kind of attack did Flynn have planned from his moral high ground?
  — Matt Farwell, The New Republic, 30 Nov. 2021
• Even with the high ground, and rams in sight, the odds are still low for someone carrying a recurve.
  — Tyler Freel, Outdoor Life, 9 Sep. 2020
• The moral high ground is not defined by who wins but by who advances peace and respect.
  — Star Tribune, 18 Jan. 2021
• The idea was to help prepare military pilots to take high ground of space.
  — Tatyana Turner, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2022
• The department didn't send firefighters into the thick of the blaze to fight it but used the high ground to douse the fire with water.
  — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 May 2021
• When differences of opinion arise, take the high ground.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• The fight for the rhetorical high ground proceeded apace as well.
  — New York Times, 19 Feb. 2022
• The crisis was created by Joe Biden giving up the high ground.
  — Jack Durschlag, Fox News, 23 Aug. 2021
• Even a man with the sketchiest knowledge of the past can still claim ownership of the high ground of history.
  — Patty Limerick, The Denver Post, 25 Oct. 2019
• But the scandal has already compromised the moral high ground that the group touted last year.
  — Roxanne Roberts, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024