high point
noun
: the best time or stage of something
Our trip to the museum was the high point of our vacation.
the high point of her career
Examples of High Point in a Sentence
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This workshop is a high point of the experience for many festival-goers who find release from writing their feelings into a song.
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Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2024
The memorial, which sits at a high point of downtown Montgomery, towers over the rest of the city, making the state capitol look like a toy in comparison.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
When Aretha Franklin performed in a mink coat at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. in 2015, her dropping of the garment on the stage floor was a high point of the evening.
—Shelcy Joseph, Essence, 19 Mar. 2024
The series, based on stories by Edgar Allen Poe, reached its creative high point with this proto-psychedelic fairy tale, whose bright colors and delirious mood predicted a groovy art movement that was then just around the corner.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2024
Oddly enough, the introduction of McGregor’s unstoppable terminator and genuine agent of chaos — who gets both a first-rate introduction scene and the film’s requisite naked-ass shot — gives this remake its giddy high point and signals the beginning of the end.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2024
That’s a new high point for the tune, which vaults from No. 58.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
Hoefler is eyeing another podium finish at the Paris Olympics this summer—he’s currently ranked ninth in the world and first in Brazil—and his signature shoe reflects this high point in his career.
—Michelle Bruton, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
Americans’ expectations about the future remain guarded, the conference board numbers show, but their ratings of current conditions are much higher and have returned most of the way to the pre-pandemic high point.
—David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2024
The memorial, which sits at a high point of downtown Montgomery, towers over the rest of the city, making the state capitol look like a toy in comparison.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
When Aretha Franklin performed in a mink coat at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. in 2015, her dropping of the garment on the stage floor was a high point of the evening.
—Shelcy Joseph, Essence, 19 Mar. 2024
The series, based on stories by Edgar Allen Poe, reached its creative high point with this proto-psychedelic fairy tale, whose bright colors and delirious mood predicted a groovy art movement that was then just around the corner.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2024
Oddly enough, the introduction of McGregor’s unstoppable terminator and genuine agent of chaos — who gets both a first-rate introduction scene and the film’s requisite naked-ass shot — gives this remake its giddy high point and signals the beginning of the end.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2024
That’s a new high point for the tune, which vaults from No. 58.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
Hoefler is eyeing another podium finish at the Paris Olympics this summer—he’s currently ranked ninth in the world and first in Brazil—and his signature shoe reflects this high point in his career.
—Michelle Bruton, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
Americans’ expectations about the future remain guarded, the conference board numbers show, but their ratings of current conditions are much higher and have returned most of the way to the pre-pandemic high point.
—David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
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High Point
geographical name
city in north central North Carolina southwest of Greensboro population 104,371
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