How to Use high-water in a Sentence

high-water

1 of 2 adjective

• And that’s the high-water mark.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 30 Aug. 2025
• Week 13 might be their high-water mark.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 5 Dec. 2025
• Both are his high-water marks for the season.
  — Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2025
• There were a few strong shifts after that, but that was the high-water mark.
  — Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 14 Oct. 2024
• Scream remains a high-water mark of teen horror.
  — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 9 June 2026
• This may be renewables’ high-water mark.
  — Peter Murphy, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2025
• But that win will also be the high-water mark for Canada in front of home fans.
  — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 25 June 2026
• Many fans feel Close to the Edge is the high-water mark off the entire prog era.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2025
• The film has hit many box office high-water-marks, but that’s also been the case on the review side.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
• That was the high-water mark for defeats in the Self era until this season.
  — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 21 Mar. 2025
• The war may have been a high-water mark of journalism, but the channel was narrow.
  — Literary Hub, 19 Dec. 2025
• But that performance now seems more like a high-water mark than a foundation on which to build.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• Last year’s Carabao Cup win was meant to be the start of something, not the high-water mark.
  — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2026
• This could be the high-water mark of the Supreme Court’s resistance.
  — Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
• The Estrela de Fura could well eclipse those high-water marks, though.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 5 Apr. 2023
• On Monday evening, parts of the town faced a high-water alert because of heavy rainfall.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 20 June 2023
• Maczko says the inside fruit becomes an easy target for spoilage due to the high-water content of the fruit.
  — Riley Wofford, Martha Stewart, 20 Aug. 2026
• Whether that confidence reads, in time, as foresight or as a high-water mark is the part no term sheet can settle.
  — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
• Swift is also setting a high-water mark for prices — in a year marked by concert inflation.
  — Lucas Shaw, Fortune, 30 June 2023
• Even so, the high-water mark hit the third floor levels, and the risk of a repeat is significant.
  — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 18 July 2025
• The department said floods and high-water events are likely because of the wildfire burn scars in the area.
  — Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 30 Sep. 2025
• That golden light within started the high-water mark for the visuals.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• The latter was this rivalry’s high-water mark for tension and tumult.
  — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
• Khaled’s paean may be the high-water mark of the bidet’s profile in American pop culture — so far.
  — Michael J. Coren, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Apr. 2023
• The showmanship of this sequence is a high-water mark for stylish violence in the series so far.
  — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
• That year, the company sold 17 cars, a new high-water mark for production.
  — Bob Sorokanich, Robb Report, 23 July 2024
• In six of the past nine seasons, the league has set a new high-water mark for offensive efficiency.
  — Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 14 Nov. 2025
• The term is pure slang, coined in America in the nineteen-twenties, a high-water decade for crimes of all kinds.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• In many ways, that trip to California would be the high-water mark for the phone carrier.
  — Daniele Lepido, Fortune, 17 July 2023
• That flooding has been taken as the high-water mark and not seen since, though smaller-scale events have been recorded in recent years.
  — Angus Watson, CNN Money, 25 June 2025

high water

2 of 2 noun

• The high water closed roads in the area.
  — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 28 Apr. 2026
• There should be some big fish that came through with the high water the first of the week.
  — Ralph Tuttle, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2026
• To his left was a waist-high water pipe, its coals burning low.
  — New York Times, 11 May 2018
• Despite the roof-high waters around the home, the house held strong.
  — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 2 Sep. 2026
• Doors to the campers cannot be opened due to high water, the county said.
  — Steve Almasy, CNN, 12 Nov. 2020
• In a short time the gates were raised and the risk of high water was averted.
  — Fox News, 3 Oct. 2020
• Her nephew and son-in-law rushed out into chest-high water to save them.
  — Dallas Morning News, 22 Mar. 2026
• Some investors prefer to buy and hold come hell or high water.
  — Ben Carlson, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2021
• Find out what your authentic self is and be that, come hell or high water.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2021
• Visitors had to wade in waist-high water to get from the boat to the beach.
  — Richard Quest and Lilit Marcus, CNN, 16 May 2021
• Land below the mean high water line — where the sand gets wet — is public.
  — Elizabeth Koh, miamiherald, 29 June 2018
• The field, rather than lush with shin-high water, crunched underfoot.
  — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
• But high waters from the storms killed new trees and plantings, which now need to be redone.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 28 Aug. 2026
• The legal process will play out and my side of the story will be told, hell or high water.
  — Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 30 Oct. 2024
• All were fine and the area is clear, but people are advised to not drive through high water.
  — The Enquirer, 20 May 2022
• Some drivers in the city became stuck in high water on the roadways.
  — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 4 Oct. 2022
• But the search had to be suspended again because of high water.
  — Tassanee Vejpongsa, The Seattle Times, 26 June 2018
• The fire department said motorists were trapped on the road amid high waters.
  — Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
• Few fish were in sight; perhaps the high water had delayed their arrival.
  — Chris Santella, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2022
• This is a pattern that’s good on Smith anytime there is high water in spring.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 18 Mar. 2020
• Markleysburg is one of the towns mentioned as dealing with high water on area roads.
  — Ron Smiley, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
• The store was built in 1831 so it's seen plenty of high water.
  — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• There’s also a lily-pad walk along the water and two, four-story high water slides.
  — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 24 June 2024
• Potatoes have a high water content.
  — Brittany Lubeck, Verywell Health, 9 June 2026
• Low water levels give way to high water levels.
  — Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
• As predicted, and feared, the waves were small, breaking near shore in waist-high water.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2021
• The high water content in the body is necessary to address all our needs.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 13 Jan. 2023
• In high water, focus on areas tight to the bank where the current is blocked or softer.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 7 Mar. 2024
• Some of the nests may have gotten washed out, or the female may have had to leave the eggs because of high water.
  — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 19 June 2021
• Peggy managed to slide open the window and climbed into the cold chest-high water.
  — Janine Zeitlin, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2022