How do you use the word "high" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "high" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "high": Back in high school, I got up at 6 a.m. every morning. This is my friend Rachel. We went to high school together.

High Meaning

/haɪ/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjPhysically elevated, extending above a base or average level:

adjPhysically elevated, extending above a base or average level:, Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.

Sentence Examples

Back in high school, I got up at 6 a.m. every morning.

This is my friend Rachel. We went to high school together.

The hotel offers a high standard of comfort and service.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

full last higher

Antonyms:

low

CEFR Practice Quiz

The mountain is so ____ that snow covers its top all year.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The birds were flying very ____ in the clear blue sky, almost disappearing from view.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kewk- Proto-Indo-European *kówk-o-s Proto-Germanic *hauhaz Proto-West Germanic *hauh Old English hēah Middle English heigh English high From Middle English high, heigh, heih, from Old English hēah (“high, tall, lofty, high-class, exalted, sublime, illustrious, important, proud, haughty, deep, right”), from Proto-West Germanic *hauh (“high”), from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz (“high”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewk- (“to bend; crooked”). Cognates Cognate with Scots heich (“high”), Yola heegh, heigh, heighe, hia, hie (“high”), North Frisian hoog, huuch (“high”), Saterland Frisian hooch, hoog (“high”), West Frisian heech (“high”), Alemannic German hooch (“high”), Central Franconian huh (“high”), Cimbrian hoach, hòach (“high”), Dutch hoog (“high”), German hoch (“high”), German Low German hooch (“high”), Limburgish hoeg (“high”), Luxembourgish héich (“high”), Mòcheno heach (“high”), Vilamovian huch (“high”), Yiddish הויך (hoykh, “high”), Danish høj (“high”), Faroese háur, høgur (“high”), Gutnish haugar (“high”), Icelandic hár (“high”), Norwegian Bokmål høg, høy (“high”), Norwegian Nynorsk høg, håg, hå (“high”), Swedish hög (“high”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍃 (hauhs, “high”), Vandalic *oas (“high”), Old French haut (“high”) (from Old High German hoh (“high”)); also with Ancient Greek Καύκᾰσος (Kaúkăsos, “Caucasus”), Latvian koks (“tree”), Lithuanian kúoka (“stick with thick end, pounder, pestle”), Bulgarian ку́ка (kúka, “hook”), Albanian çukë (“peak, summit, top”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Upon the highest spray of every mounting pole, Those Quirristers are pearcht with many a speckled breast." — 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 13 p. 214:

"The Chitistone River Valley offers a more direct route for travel from McCarthy to the White River and the Shushana gold placers than Skolai Creek, but it involves a high climb over the so-called “goat trail” to avoid the canyon above Chitistone[.]" — 1930, Philip Sidney Smith, Mineral Industry of Alaska in 1928 and Administration Report:

"Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth." — 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2025, page 36:

"She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive." — 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

"A nightgown with a high neck and long sleeves may have the fullness set into a yoke." — 1919, Martha Van Rensselaer, Flora Rose, Helen Canon, A Manual of Home-Making, page 376:

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