high up

ADVERB
  1. at a great altitude
    he climbed high on the ladder
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How To Use high up In A Sentence

  • Williamson is well known to have been a highly successful spy, and high up in the apartheid regime's disinformation network.
  • From high up in the stand the manager bellowed instructions to the players via the touchline. Times, Sunday Times
  • During the boat ride, he pointed out the site of a former Maori pa, a fortified settlement hidden in the bush where warriors had hauled their canoes high up the cliffs to protect them from saboteurs.
  • The six Roman heroes stand high up in the side arches, above the entablature that crowns the actual windows in the wall.
  • We got caught in it anyway being too high up when it drifted towards us - dense pouring cloud - filling in every clough and gulley between us and the hills over the valley.
  • From high up in the stand the manager bellowed instructions to the players via the touchline. Times, Sunday Times
  • It really depends on the range the bird is at how high up I aim. Where to aim on a Turkey?
  • I was supposed to be in subarctic America, and high up among the buttresses of the Rockies; yet there was that everlasting spread of flowers. The Night-Born
  • These should consist entirely of high upland in which no agricultural or forestry activities would take place.
  • It was a perilous undertaking to climb a walnut tree, for the limbs began to grow high up and the trunk was covered with a rough bark, hence the name shagbark; to shin up, and still more to descend, was apt to make patches or a new seat to your trousers your mother's evening work after you had gone to bed. Confessions of Boyhood
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