How to Use run high in a Sentence

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• But emotions run high when her longtime friend — and recent hook-up — joins the group at the lake house.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 27 May 2022
• Bardugo knows when to let the action roar, when to let emotions run high, and when to chase the theatrics with a wink and a smile.
  — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2021
• With so many people living in the same house, tensions run high.
  — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2022
• Tensions will run high, and all of you will grow resentful.
  — Annie Lane, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Feb. 2023
• Being a governor hasn’t looked like much fun lately, and the stakes out West run high.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2021
• Tensions run high as food runs short and hundreds of thousands of people starve to death.
  — The Arizona Republic, 20 Mar. 2024
• When facing unplanned events like these, emotions are bound to run high.
  — John Hall, Forbes, 16 May 2021
• This 600-mile stretch of the Indian Ocean is far from the only place where tensions over fishing run high.
  — Helen Wieffering, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Apr. 2022
• Tensions had run high in the House the night before as hard-right Republicans refused the deal.
  — Lisa Mascaro, Fortune, 2 June 2023
• Tensions had run high in the House the night before as hard-right Republicans refused the deal.
  — Lisa Mascaro, Fortune, 2 June 2023
• Trayce Thompson collected his seventh home run high off the foul pole in the second.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2022
• Emotions can run high, and having a core of players who have all been there before means the Bears are less likely to get too high and too low.
  — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2021
• But with so much water already in the system, many rivers will continue to run high even after the rain ends.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2023
• That means the jury selection process could be delayed for up to 30 days while tensions run high throughout the city.
  — Joseph Simonson, Washington Examiner, 8 Mar. 2021
• Lightning and gusty winds may be possible and small tributaries and rivers may run high.
  — Julianna O'Clair, The Denver Post, 10 June 2024
• Prices run high across the board for Micro Four Thirds lenses compared with those for other systems.
  — PCMAG, 6 Feb. 2024
• Our passions are likely to run high on all topics today.
  — Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2022
• Cleveland officials have some qualms about a company that wants to run high speed broadband lines all through the city.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 19 July 2023
• Iraqis typically march in the thousands to commemorate the day in the holy city of Karbala and emotions run high in the days leading up to it.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Aug. 2022
• Inflation pressures continue to run high, and the process of getting inflation back down to 2% has a long way to go.
  — Bysheryl Estrada, Fortune, 29 June 2023
• Yet, tensions will no doubt run high when the Astros make their second visit to Los Angeles in three years next June.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2022
• The group is pushing to design areas that can be allowed to flood when waters run high that can serve as wildlife habitats and places for water to re-enter the earth.
  — Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023
• The group is pushing to design areas that can be allowed to flood when waters run high that can serve as wildlife habitats and places for water to re-enter the earth.
  — Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023
• Ramírez launched a three-run home run high down the right-field line in the first inning and blasted a two-run shot in the second, both off Tigers starter Michael Pineda for his 19th career multi-homer game.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 16 July 2022
• In the exclusive trailer above, tensions run high as mishaps, big and small, cause conflict amid stressful working days.
  — Antonia Debianchi, PEOPLE.com, 21 June 2022
• While emotions and opinions have run high throughout the trial, there were no big outbursts or violence.
  — Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Nov. 2021
• Girls and Their Horses $27 at Amazon Tensions have always run high in the elite (and usually, rich) equestrian world.
  — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Feb. 2023
• Taking the bank and its customers hostage and demanding the release of Nelson Mandela in exchange for release of the prisoners, the stakes and tensions run high.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Mar. 2022
• Emotions will run high, pushing you to distance yourself from people and situations that stand in your way.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2024
• Emotions may run high on all sides and complicate interventions.
  — Lisa Strauss, Washington Post, 5 July 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024