How to Use high place in a Sentence

high place

noun

• Just that: the bare stone in this high place, the vast plain below and the sea all around.
  — Colm Tóibín, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Feb. 2022
• Or the things your cat loves to do, like hide, play hunt and climb to high places.
  — Cathy M. Rosenthal, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Dec. 2017
• But a lot of people in high places were adamant that the prince should not go to the frontlines.
  — CBS News, 19 May 2018
• So when the Feds came for him, Mr Milken had few friends in high places and a lot of enemies.
  — The Economist, 20 Feb. 2020
• Once their long climb to a high place is completed, things get even worse for the doomed flies.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2017
• Use it with the telescoping wand for floors and high places or as a handheld for stairs, the sofa and the car.
  — Lynn Redmile, Good Housekeeping, 8 Apr. 2020
• Both are certain to provoke eye-rolling in high places.
  — Graham Hillard, National Review, 2 Oct. 2017
• There are fungi that make their ant hosts carry them to a high place, then shoot spores out of the ants' heads.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 16 Feb. 2012
• Make no mistake, patent leather still holds a high place in a well-rounded wardrobe.
  — Blake Newby, Essence, 19 Oct. 2021
• Former colleagues may now be, or have, friends in high places.
  — Anne Fisher, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2019
• If only hot pants in high places alliances weren’t so tricky.
  — Minerva, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Oct. 2017
• Even his admirers would concede that Mr. Khan owes much to friends in high places.
  — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 12 July 2018
• Rich ones in high places and with good sources of water and electricity may thrive.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• Kitchen: Is there a stable step stool (with safety rail) for reaching high places?
  — Michele Parente, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• All these high places, the upper class or the bourgeoisie … all of this Western construct is falling apart.
  — Catherine Annie Hollingsworth, miamiherald, 3 June 2018
• Hundreds of women exposed men in high places who can’t keep their hands to themselves.
  — The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
• But Acú brought it to a higher place by adding a dish of vanilla ice cream with a golden crown of honey and pistachios.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 7 June 2018
• The Shinobi Prosthetic is good for more than getting to high places, too.
  — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 12 June 2018
• The closest thing to one of my favorite places in Los Angeles would be a view from a high place, preferably a mountain or hilltop.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021
• Donald Trump will continue to put sycophants in high places.
  — Willie Brown, SFChronicle.com, 7 July 2018
• That may be because Anbang lacks defenders in high places.
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• For a daytime assault, a sniper picks a high place such as a building or a hill and covers the advancing soldiers from behind.
  — Azad Cudi, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
• The high places simulate bluffs and cliffs where falcons would naturally build their nests.
  — Matt Campbell, kansascity, 28 Mar. 2018
• In 2018, Shaq traded in basketballs for bass drops and reemerged as DJ Diesel -- a bone-crushing dubstep producer with friends in high places.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 17 Dec. 2019
• However, that doesn’t mean that anime tie-up songs always take high places on Billboard’s global charts.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 22 Feb. 2023
• The trend of corporations buying homes and turning them into rentals has raised concern among people in high places.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2019
• Friends in high places are coming to Jason Momoa’s defense after some made their feelings known about his body on Twitter.
  — Rachel E. Greenspan, Time, 11 July 2019
• Rothstein’s crime shook up powerful people in high places throughout the region.
  — Jay Weaver, miamiherald, 26 Sep. 2017
• Does Graham really mean to place Donald Trump in the same high place as Jesus in this comparison?
  — Star Tribune, 18 Jan. 2021
• Corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024