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
• There's the moral high ground, and there's diving off it into the abyss.
  — Washington Post, 22 May 2019
• 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
• The next morning our group split up and headed for high ground around the lake.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2017
• 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
• For decades, the moral high ground on the issue of guns has been occupied by the left.
  — Jason Christian, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2018
• 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
• The divers were aiming for a sandy chamber on higher ground in the cave.
  — Author: Tassanee Vejpongsa, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2018
• Blue Origin should have strictly stuck to the high ground.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 19 July 2021
• At the least, the path to higher ground in the Eastern Conference.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 12 May 2018
• The sock monkies are still guarding the door, but the piano is on its way to higher ground.
  — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• In short, the U.S. has surrendered its moral high ground.
  — Monica Duffy Toft, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2019
• 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
• The media’s footing on the high ground is not so stable here.
  — Callum Borchers, Philly.com, 8 June 2018
• 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 Joshua Tree’ found common ground by reaching for the higher ground.
  — George Varga, Pacific San Diego Magazine, 20 Sep. 2017
• 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
• The ability to fly faster and higher has always been the next military high ground.
  — Sassie Duggleby, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2024
• End of carousel Berlin, by contrast, has no interest in claiming any moral high ground (and no ability to claim it).
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024