How to Use high-water mark in a Sentence

high-water mark

noun

• In the end, the great tax haul of spring 2022 may prove something of a high-water mark.
  — Laura Davison, Fortune, 9 May 2022
• The next morning, Williams returned to the bridges to re-measure the high-water mark.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2022
• The Texans’ 82 rushing yards in Week 2 is the high-water mark.
  — Scott Patsko, cleveland, 9 Oct. 2021
• That turned out to be the high-water mark in their partnership.
  — Christian Clark, NOLA.com, 4 Nov. 2020
• That moment in Davos was arguably a high-water mark for Xi on the world stage.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2023
• And our active cases are down 25% from the high-water mark.
  — Wally Hall, Arkansas Online, 21 Aug. 2020
• That may be the high-water mark for 2020 as far as tight end targets for a single game.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 5 Nov. 2020
• Water isn’t the only recent high-water mark (ahem) of the trend.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2020
• The better news: that will mostly likely be the high-water mark.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2022
• That's $3,300 higher than a year ago, and eclipses the previous high-water mark set in March.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2022
• The Lucid's result is a new high-water mark for our highway range test, the first EV to get into the 400s.
  — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 18 July 2022
• This year alone, carbon markets are set to reach a new high-water mark of $1 billion.
  — Stephen Lezak, The New Republic, 9 Nov. 2021
• The tally represents a slight dropoff from last year’s 62 players, the high-water mark for the county.
  — Steve Svekis, Sun Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2022
• The Battle of the Park Blocks had ended up being the high-water mark of the Portland protest season after all.
  — oregonlive, 4 May 2020
• Not so with this throwback to the high-water mark of the hubris of the Japanese bubble economy.
  — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 7 Oct. 2022
• For the record, that last tally is more than any other band, and only one less than Bruno Mars’ high-water mark of five.
  — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 12 Dec. 2022
• The backlog of paper returns reached a high-water mark of 24 million this year.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2022
• Havoc rate suggests that 2020 team reached a high-water mark.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Sep. 2022
• Yet both, in their own ways over the last week, signaled that Biden-era progressivism has reached its high-water mark.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 21 Dec. 2021
• His wife and doctor begged him to stop, so 80 minutes became his high-water mark.
  — Greg Presto, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Apr. 2022
• Last week, Harry Styles set the high-water mark for weekly streams for a song in 2022 — and just one week later, that record has fallen.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 18 Apr. 2022
• That four-game sweep wound up being the high-water mark of Holiday’s time with the Pelicans.
  — Christian Clark, NOLA.com, 25 Nov. 2020
• In the 17th century, the colony of Maryland was given ownership of the entire Potomac, all the way to the high-water mark on the Virginia shore.
  — Washington Post, 19 May 2021
• For Hill, an art handler and painter who’s made his home in the D.C. area since 1982, this stream-of-consciousness text is more than a high-water mark for modernism.
  — Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2022
• The tide continued to rise, pushing a grimy high-water mark on the storefronts to 16 inches above street level.
  — Justin Beal, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2021
• Donovan said the two goals that beat L.A. represented the franchise’s high-water mark in artistry.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2021
• So, while this is certainly a high-water mark, the daily competition that leads to events like this is par for the course.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 15 Dec. 2020
• It’s also the team’s high-water mark in six seasons under coach Shaka Smart.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 21 Dec. 2020
• By 2015, the legal fight against corruption in Guatemala was reaching its high-water mark.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2022
• Both were around for the high-water mark of last mid-December and the disappointment that followed.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 13 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024