How to Use high-water mark in a Sentence

high-water mark

noun
  • In the end, the great tax haul of spring 2022 may prove something of a high-water mark.
    Laura Davison, Fortune, 9 May 2022
  • This fall feels like a new high-water mark for these sorts of projects.
    Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 24 May 2018
  • The high-water mark for the airline is around 225 flights at DIA per day.
    Joe Rubino, The Denver Post, 14 Aug. 2019
  • The next morning, Williams returned to the bridges to re-measure the high-water mark.
    Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2022
  • The Texans’ 82 rushing yards in Week 2 is the high-water mark.
    Scott Patsko, cleveland, 9 Oct. 2021
  • That turned out to be the high-water mark in their partnership.
    Christian Clark, NOLA.com, 4 Nov. 2020
  • That moment in Davos was arguably a high-water mark for Xi on the world stage.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2023
  • And our active cases are down 25% from the high-water mark.
    Wally Hall, Arkansas Online, 21 Aug. 2020
  • That may be the high-water mark for 2020 as far as tight end targets for a single game.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Water isn’t the only recent high-water mark (ahem) of the trend.
    David Z. Morris, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2020
  • The better news: that will mostly likely be the high-water mark.
    Alan Murray, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Saturday's win brings the Illini to 4-4, the high-water mark for a Lovie Smith coached team at this point in the season.
    Akeem Glaspie, Indianapolis Star, 26 Oct. 2019
  • That's $3,300 higher than a year ago, and eclipses the previous high-water mark set in March.
    Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The Lucid's result is a new high-water mark for our highway range test, the first EV to get into the 400s.
    Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 18 July 2022
  • In that case, the Texas Rangers hit their high-water mark in Toronto on Saturday.
    Stefan Stevenson, star-telegram, 29 Apr. 2018
  • The first of those, a run to the quarterfinals in South Korea, is the modern high-water mark for the men’s program.
    Andrew Das, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The floor level of the new building will be fixed at a grade of 16 feet above mean low tide, which will place it well above the high-water mark on the island.
    Alice Adams, Houston Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Ortiz’s high-water mark for the campaign was 13 points and Filner 10 points.
    Daily Pilot Staff, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
  • At the same time, the building’s story notched a high-water mark for urban activism.
    Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Lucas’ high-water mark was a 26-point game against Morgan State on Nov. 23.
    Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Dec. 2019
  • This year alone, carbon markets are set to reach a new high-water mark of $1 billion.
    Stephen Lezak, The New Republic, 9 Nov. 2021
  • The high-water mark hit 74 inches late Tuesday, meaning more than 85% of the city was flooded.
    Fox News, 13 Nov. 2019
  • The tally represents a slight dropoff from last year’s 62 players, the high-water mark for the county.
    Steve Svekis, Sun Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The Battle of the Park Blocks had ended up being the high-water mark of the Portland protest season after all.
    oregonlive, 4 May 2020
  • Not so with this throwback to the high-water mark of the hubris of the Japanese bubble economy.
    Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 7 Oct. 2022
  • For the record, that last tally is more than any other band, and only one less than Bruno Mars’ high-water mark of five.
    Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The backlog of paper returns reached a high-water mark of 24 million this year.
    Erin Prater, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2022
  • But on the amendment votes, the high-water mark for lawmakers voting was 411.
    Chad Pergram, Fox News, 19 May 2018
  • Havoc rate suggests that 2020 team reached a high-water mark.
    Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The Weeknd reached a new high-water mark on Spotify this week.
    Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 27 Feb. 2023

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