How to Use high command in a Sentence

high command

noun

• But Vigneault’s words of self-defense weren’t enough to sway the team’s high command.
  — Allan Kreda, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2018
• Yet the high command wished to avoid blame from the German people for losing the war.
  — Christine Adams / Made By History, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
• As to be expected, the high command did not react favorably to these home truths.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• The Harris high command was not built to lob Hail Mary passes.
  — Amie Parnes, The Hill, 29 Jan. 2025
• Her backers released photos of members of the high command saluting her.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• Her backers released photos of members of the high command saluting her.
  — Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2019
• By this stage of the war, many in the Japanese military high command believed their cause was lost.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2020
• Biden’s high command continues to insist polls reflect a moment and not a movement.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 1 July 2024
• Six months into the job, Simon was nowhere near finishing the task and had nothing to show the high command.
  — Dan Senor, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2023
• The 20 members of the student body are daughters of Nazis in Hitler’s high command.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2021
• So when the high command voiced its outrage over Cienfuegos’ arrest, the president was quick to take up his cause.
  — Tim Golden, ProPublica, 8 Dec. 2022
• So when the high command voiced its outrage over Cienfuegos’s arrest, the president was quick to take up his cause.
  — Tim Golden, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2022
• At least as far back as 2010, the Navy’s high command had been put on notice about its troubled state of readiness.
  — Megan Rose, ProPublica, 24 June 2019
• On receipt of the directive, the Pentagon high command erupted in a storm of outrage.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
• In Tel Aviv, the generals at military high command were triumphant.
  — New York Times, 21 May 2021
• Many of these hand-wringers are attention-seeking, erstwhile strategists who can’t seem to get their phone calls returned by the Biden high command.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2020
• The shock of the atomic bombs was the critical factor in breaking the deadlock among the Japanese high command.
  — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 7 Aug. 2025
• But raising the age question was grounds for excommunication from the high command of the Biden orbit.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 28 June 2024
• The military had hoped at the time that Khan would provide a useful civilian façade for policies dictated by the army’s high command.
  — Husain Haqqani, Foreign Affairs, 12 June 2023
• At the same time, the Ukrainian high command is managing multiple other campaigns.
  — Mick Ryan, Foreign Affairs, 30 Aug. 2023
• Each one sat in silence in the atrium of his own house, on the ivory throne that symbolized his high office, his hands holding the insignia of imperium—high command.
  — Ingrid D. Rowland, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2022
• Yet just three years later, most of the Nazi high command would be in the dock at Nuremberg, charged with the most outrageous crimes of the century.
  — Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
• But some analysts noted that by this point, the PLA may have well become accustomed to the shake-ups in its high command.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2025
• Gutmann and his wife were killed in the Theresienstadt and Auschwitz death camps, and their collection looted by the Nazi high command.
  — Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2018
• The Ukrainian military high command has maintained a general silence on troop movements.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
• Notably, however, there is no evidence that civilian hardship played a role in the German high command’s decision to end the war.
  — Barry Eichengreen, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2022
• Bukele has been as determined as his predecessors and the military high command to quash the investigation.
  — Raymond Bonner, ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2011
• At the end of 1917, the German high command had decided that the army needed a spring offensive to revive morale.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
• Anyone who was wrongly dipping into the OT kitty for themselves or others has to be found and exiled from the high command, if not fired outright.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 24 Dec. 2024
• But seven hours after Hamas attacked Israel last year, the order from Israel’s high command made roof knocks optional.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024