high - use in sentences

Preposition: on

  • agenda: Future energy supply is high on the public agenda.
  • hill: High on a hill above Georgetown, Kek Lok Si is one of the largest shrines in South-East Asia.

Preposition: as

  • %: Some store credit in well known electrical chain stores is as high as 29 % APR!

Adjective modifier

  • all-time: The female prison population is at an all-time high, with 4,671 women inside compared with 1,811 a decade ago.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • keep: In a cunning move by Sony to keep the price high only value packs are to appear.

Modifies a noun

  • level: A high level of overtime was also being worked.
  • standard: Such is the high standard of current junior golf!
  • education: Higher Education: : Internet Marketing, 3rd Edition By Keyword By Title By Author By ISBN.
  • quality: A classic value: high quality plus a great price.
  • rate: Overall Credit Card Strategy Target the highest rates of interest.
  • degree: In addition, a large number our students go on to study higher degrees.

Used with adjective complement

  • remain: Public opposition to GM food and crops remains as high as ever.
  • pile: It's not just by accident that students rooms are not piled high with evangelizing material.
  • sit: The car sits up high on 13 inch wheels.
  • run: It does not wish to tread on local or regional toes on, what is, a complex matter where feelings may run high.
  • appear: In Taoist fashion it is also said, " Looking up, the player appears even higher.
  • go: Should either of the bars go higher than this line, you will know you have consumed too much food for that day!

Preposition: in

  • sky: And the sun was high in the sky over their heads, and the heat was great, and sleep came upon Maxen Wledig.

Preposition: up

  • valley: Higher up the valley we shall look for raptors such as Booted & Short-toed Eagles and the elusive Wallcreeper.

Preposition: than

  • proportion: The proportion of women lawyers, and lawyers from minority ethnic backgrounds, appointed remains higher than the respective proportions eligible to apply.

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