How to Use high ground in a Sentence

high ground

noun

• Watch our survival guide for getting to higher ground safely.
  — Popular Mechanics, 15 Dec. 2017
• If that’s not your first concern — if your moral high ground is colored by love of a rival or sanctimonious hypocrisy — let’s pipe down.
  — Graham Couch, Detroit Free Press, 21 Oct. 2017
• Some of the folks in our neighborhood, the Woodwards included, moved things to higher ground.
  — Tim Woodward, idahostatesman, 8 Dec. 2017
• Hanzlik said the seven-story building would look like a nine-story structure because of the move to higher ground.
  — Chuck Fieldman, chicagotribune.com, 26 Dec. 2017
• Would Harbaugh have hitched up his khakis and kept Stanford on high ground as his successor David Shaw has done?
  — Mike Jensen, Philly.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• City officials asked residents on Riverside Drive to move their cars to higher ground as a precaution.
  — Kaylee Remington, cleveland.com, 12 Jan. 2018
• Nor has China, which has seized the rhetorical high ground vacated by America, matched its fine words with actions.
  — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2017
• Dispatch, the police station and city hall were inundated with phone calls from panicked residents, and some people even rushed to higher ground, Rahl said.
  — Anna Marum, OregonLive.com, 3 Jan. 2018
• Culberson shares the belief among some American military leaders that China views space as a new military high ground.
  — Lee Roop, AL.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• The Democrats are positioning themselves for the high ground should Republican Roy Moore be elected.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2017
• But there are answers to how, and both Parry and the parents he interviews want as much information as possible as to why the school did not evacuate the pupils to higher ground.
  — Lisa Levy, New Republic, 9 Oct. 2017
• There were no motorists or pedestrians to watch the clattering convoy whip past the bank and mercantile store, and the crows and pigeons had taken wing for the high ground behind this place on the New River.
  — John Bordsen, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2017
• 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
• 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 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: 5 Nov 2024