Example sentences for: high-water

How can you use “high-water” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The years he covers here were the high-water years for the movement.

  • Historians are likely to look back on ABC's March Against Drugs as a high-water mark in the anti-drug irrationalism of the mid-'90s.

  • Oddly, the main piece doesn't mention the high-water mark of that resurgence--Carey's leadership of his union in last summer's UPS strike--while the companion piece relegates it to the twelfth paragraph.

  • Rothko's journey into literal and figurative darkness left behind a shimmering trail of canvases that mark for many people the high-water mark of spiritual beauty and emotion in modern art.

  • (That election was a high-water mark for student donations in a nonpresidential year--twice the level of the 1989-90 campaigns.)


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