Modifies a noun

• hose: Don't using high-pressure hoses on slabs to avoid damage to the pointing.

• pipeline: Five utility workers were killed when an excavator digging a trench for a new water main ruptured a high-pressure petroleum pipeline.

• steam: Without high-pressure steam, the age of the locomotive would not have dawned.

• tactic: No more life insurance agents hovering at your kitchen table or using high-pressure sales tactics.

• selling: I am not talking here about high-pressure selling in a more general sense, however distasteful some of us may find that.

• laminate: Only in a second stage is this so-called high-pressure laminate glued to the core layer.

Modifying Another Word

• very: A little closer to home, some antique dealers in the Winchester area are using very high-pressure tactics.