How to Use from on high in a Sentence

from on high

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• Someone has to build the bombs, and someone else to drop them from on high.
  — Robert Rubsam, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• No doubt Walton is smiling from on high.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026
• This means that any idea or change cannot simply be mandated from on high.
  — Yec, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• Head out to the field nearby to watch Santa paraglide from on high and land on the snowy ground.
  — AFAR Media, 24 Sep. 2025
• Until, that is, a drag queen sneaks into the party and tips a bucket of blood over her head from on high.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2024
• Fortunately, such threats from on high seem to be inspiring more courage than fear so far.
  — Andreas Kluth, Twin Cities, 5 Dec. 2025
• Knowledge isn’t handed down from on high; it is produced, and kids deserve to see, and be part of, that process.
  — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 14 Oct. 2019
• Official guidance seems handed down from on high, rather than based on studies.
  — Roxanne Khamsi, Wired, 16 Nov. 2020
• Such beautiful catharsis gleaned from musical notes sent down from on high.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
• The idea of rules imposed from on high that accelerate the adoption of new standards has some precedent.
  — Moises Velasquez-Manoff Robert Petkoff Emma Kehlbeck Zak Mouton, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
• Wisdom from on high — and down low Henry is philosophical by nature.
  — Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 4 Oct. 2025
• In exploring the city from on high, Flaco has plenty of company and plenty to see.
  — Ed Shanahan, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• Like God, who judges from on high, a finance minister has the power to determine who shall thrive and who shall struggle.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
• Watching from on high are San’s nephew and father, seated in the stands and tracking their relative’s every move.
  — Roman Hodel, The New Yorker, 20 May 2021
• Days before the midterms, the DeSantis campaign released a video that cast his rise as ordained from on high.
  — Jonathan Swan, New York Times, 13 May 2023
• This yearly lecture from on high is conceived to show Obama’s smarter-than-a-populist diversions.
  — Armond White, National Review, 22 Dec. 2021
• The order for that spinoff, which premieres on Sunday with Mayim Bialik as host, came from on high.
  — Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2022
• An honest to goodness comedy, with no mission beyond making its audience guffaw, felt like a gift from on high.
  — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• The restaurant is on the 49th floor, and diners can sit up against floor-to-ceiling windows for a spectacular peek at the city from on high.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2021
• That downturn comes from two sources — orders from on high and individual officers on the street — that can be hard to untangle.
  — Emily Badger, New York Times, 29 July 2024
• However, that doesn’t mean handing down edicts from on high and expecting all the problems to miraculously solve themselves overnight.
  — Susan Callender, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• But this is real life, not fiction, and Loktev isn’t coldly observing her subjects from on high or yanking them along on unseen strings.
  — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025
• Apparently, Cheney missed the memo from on high that these inconvenient facts are off-message and verboten.
  — Charlie Dent, CNN, 10 May 2021
• Pronouncements from on high, no matter how well meaning, only have effect if people listen—and Johnston’s staffers took his words to heart.
  — Harvey Solomon, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2020
• The rules of Good Development came from the empire, from on high, but Together was our own creation.
  — George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
• And then there is the structure itself, with its towering walls of stone, its flying buttresses and its weird populace of gargoyles and grotesques watching the city from on high.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2022
• They weren’t built for dogfights in the air—their original intent was to intercept the bombers cruising at altitude and dropping ordinance straight down from on high.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 May 2022
• The sideline was lifeless, sending an ominous message to the university decision makers watching from on high.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2021
• Their back-up vocals, which featured dazzling, razor-sharp call-and-response harmonies that soared from on high, helped propel the song up the pop charts in 1973.
  — Eddie Dean, WSJ, 29 July 2022
• When his teams were thinking about how to best apply digital transformation in the context of sustainability for their clients, the strategy didn’t come from on high.
  — Bruce Rogers, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022