How to Use highland in a Sentence

highland

noun

• Lev-Ram: The highlands of Guatemala is where this came to her, this epiphany.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2024
• The snow in the highlands has brought the ptarmigan down to places where hunters are able to access them.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Nov. 2019
• Scotland saw a peak gust of 106 mph in Aonach Mor, a mountain in the highlands.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024
• These three samples were used to sequence the highland wild dogs’ genomes.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Sep. 2020
• Lasso's office in a statement said 12 of the victims died in the coastal state of El Oro and two in the highlands state of Azuay.
  — Gonzalo Solano, ajc, 19 Mar. 2023
• It's known as Aphrodite Terra, which is the largest highland region on Venus.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Feb. 2021
• The state forest comprises more than 9,000 acres of the highlands.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 1 Oct. 2019
• But since the early 1990s, the team found, the highlands' long rainy season had gone into a steep decline.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 15 Apr. 2020
• At the health clinic in Migowi in Malawi’s southern highlands, workers see signs of hope.
  — Lauran Neergaard, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2020
• The main inflow is the Kagera River, which drains the highlands of Rwanda and Burundi.
  — Emily J. Beverly, Quartz Africa, 26 Jan. 2020
• In the highland city of Cochabamba, scenes have emerged of bodies lying in the streets and coffins waiting for days in homes to be taken away.
  — Fox News, 10 July 2020
• Two of the species, Electrophorus electricus and E. voltai, live in the highland regions of the Amazon.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2019
• Scrubby tundra basked in the Sun’s rays on the island’s northwest highlands.
  — Paul Bierman, Fortune, 24 July 2023
• The other, a 200-year-old farmhouse, crowns the Pokut highland and requires a four-wheel drive to climb its treacherous road.
  — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Jan. 2022
• The North Bay will have the highest chance of showers, with up to a third of an inch of rain possible in some of the Sonoma County highlands.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 May 2023
• The east side of the city is literally highland, overlooking the lake from a roughly 100-foot-high bluff.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2022
• The plains of Elysium Planitia, found along the Martian equator, are between highlands to the south and west and volcanoes to the north and east.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Feb. 2020
• Ben Nevis is a highland distillery that sits at the base of Ben Nevis mountain and is known for its flavorful and robust malts.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
• The agave used to produce Volcan comes from highlands and lowlands fields, and is grown in volcanic soil that surrounds the volcano that gives the brand its name.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 30 Mar. 2023
• Mid-range hotels with hot springs on site are the norm here, but for a break from the slopes, take a day trip to see the snow monkeys in their own hot spring, or tour the highlands on snowshoes.
  — Selena Takigawa Hoy, Travel + Leisure, 24 Nov. 2023
• Burning coal and grasslands in Africa The burning season in Africa begins in December as the rains trail off in the highlands.
  — Daniel Wolfe, Quartz, 14 Jan. 2020
• The Loch Ness monster, nicknamed Nessie, is a creature speculated to live in the lake in the Scottish highlands.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2023
• William Mendoza, 45, fled Guatemala's western highlands with his 17-year-old son, thinking he would be freed in the U.S. with a notice to appear in court.
  — Elliot Spagat, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2019
• Up in the highlands of the Ethiopian plateau grows a tree with bright red fruit that came to profoundly shape morning rituals for people all over the world.
  — Lesley Evans Ogden, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
• Bring back the reed and the reef, set the ice sheet back on its frozen plinth, tuck the restless watercourse into its bed, sit the glacier down on its highland throne, put the snow cap back on the mountain peak.
  — Simon Armitage, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
• The sound of a passing dust devil was recorded on Mars, where a four-hour marsquake revealed that shear waves move faster in the planet’s southern highlands.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
• This makes Glengoyne an ideal option if your trip is too short to go trekking into the highlands or islands.
  — Mark Littler, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• The old town had highlands that remained dry year-round, where the Urarina farmed staples such as yucca and plantains.
  — Daniel Grossman, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2020
• The exact spot sits on a highland plain that is currently owned by Hibbing Taconite.
  — Kerri Westenberg, Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
• The term seitho refers to an ancestral home, which for my Abagusii tribemates is the lush, red-clayed highland that covers the Kisii region of Kenya.
  — Jakki Kerubo, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024