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Examples of high road in a Sentence
hair-raising tales of outlaws who ambushed coaches traveling the high roads
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In the United States, thousands of ‘high road’ restaurants are paving the way to a better industry, not just leading with their great food but their values.
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Saru Jayaraman, CNN, 14 Jan. 2023
If 2016 Obama was singing the virtues of the high road, firmly but selectively pushing back on a presidential candidate who had peddled falsehoods about her husband, her 2020 speech shot fire from that high road by using Trump’s words against him.
—Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2020
In a legislature with a Republican supermajority that’s not open to gay rights – an LGBTQ nondiscrimination bill has been introduced 10 times and hasn’t become law – Antonio has learned to take the high road.
—cleveland, 30 Dec. 2022
But on Friday, Crawford characteristically took the high road in his comments to The Chronicle.
—John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Dec. 2022
If the time comes when your husband becomes too incapacitated to visit his daughter and the rest of the family, please take the high road and do the compassionate thing.
—Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 21 Dec. 2022
Overall, though, Harry & Meghan sees the semi-royals take the high road—refusing to address much of the drama and family infighting that’s led them to Santa Barbara, thousands of miles away from Buckingham Palace.
—Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2022
Women were encouraged to take the high road, to be the moral centers of the family, to cinch up their corset and carry on.
—Dina Gachman, Glamour, 17 Nov. 2022
But Jace takes the high road, raising a toast to Aemond and Aegon in what is starting to feel like a feelings circle.
—Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 10 Oct. 2022
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Saru Jayaraman, CNN, 14 Jan. 2023
If 2016 Obama was singing the virtues of the high road, firmly but selectively pushing back on a presidential candidate who had peddled falsehoods about her husband, her 2020 speech shot fire from that high road by using Trump’s words against him.
—Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2020
In a legislature with a Republican supermajority that’s not open to gay rights – an LGBTQ nondiscrimination bill has been introduced 10 times and hasn’t become law – Antonio has learned to take the high road.
—cleveland, 30 Dec. 2022
But on Friday, Crawford characteristically took the high road in his comments to The Chronicle.
—John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Dec. 2022
If the time comes when your husband becomes too incapacitated to visit his daughter and the rest of the family, please take the high road and do the compassionate thing.
—Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 21 Dec. 2022
Overall, though, Harry & Meghan sees the semi-royals take the high road—refusing to address much of the drama and family infighting that’s led them to Santa Barbara, thousands of miles away from Buckingham Palace.
—Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2022
Women were encouraged to take the high road, to be the moral centers of the family, to cinch up their corset and carry on.
—Dina Gachman, Glamour, 17 Nov. 2022
But Jace takes the high road, raising a toast to Aemond and Aegon in what is starting to feel like a feelings circle.
—Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 10 Oct. 2022
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First Known Use
1613, in the meaning defined at sense 2
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highroad
noun
high·road
-ˌrōd
: highway
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