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 | Minabinett@al.com, 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

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