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
• This fall feels like a new high-water mark for these sorts of projects.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 24 May 2018
• The high-water mark for the airline is around 225 flights at DIA per day.
  — Joe Rubino, The Denver Post, 14 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Saturday's win brings the Illini to 4-4, the high-water mark for a Lovie Smith coached team at this point in the season.
  — Akeem Glaspie, Indianapolis Star, 26 Oct. 2019
• 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
• In that case, the Texas Rangers hit their high-water mark in Toronto on Saturday.
  — Stefan Stevenson, star-telegram, 29 Apr. 2018
• The first of those, a run to the quarterfinals in South Korea, is the modern high-water mark for the men’s program.
  — Andrew Das, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
• The floor level of the new building will be fixed at a grade of 16 feet above mean low tide, which will place it well above the high-water mark on the island.
  — Alice Adams, Houston Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2019
• Ortiz’s high-water mark for the campaign was 13 points and Filner 10 points.
  — Daily Pilot Staff, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
• At the same time, the building’s story notched a high-water mark for urban activism.
  — Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Jan. 2018
• Lucas’ high-water mark was a 26-point game against Morgan State on Nov. 23.
  — Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Dec. 2019
• 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 high-water mark hit 74 inches late Tuesday, meaning more than 85% of the city was flooded.
  — Fox News, 13 Nov. 2019
• 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
• But on the amendment votes, the high-water mark for lawmakers voting was 411.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 19 May 2018
• 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

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024