How to Use highlander in a Sentence

highlander

noun

• The highlanders lived in huts of timber and kunai grass, used stone tools and fought with wooden spears and arrows.
  — Sean Flynn, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018
• The bolder the better — proper fall IG grids aren't for the faint of heart and there can only be one highlander.
  — Sarah Solomon, Town & Country, 19 Sep. 2016
• Just as white settlers had been unaware of their existence, the highlanders had no idea that anyone lived beyond the mountains.
  — Sean Flynn, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018
• Deifel led the Highlanders in hits this past spring, collecting 20 in 62 at-bats.
  — John Snodgrass, Cincinnati.com, 3 July 2017
• For a main course, look for the duck breast ($29) accepted with plum sauce, highlander dumplings, carrot and asparagus.
  — Nikki O'Neill, Chicago Tribune, 18 Apr. 2023
• The guileless turns of the film's real-life highlander cast also grounds the film nicely and act as an effective foil to Ugyen.
  — Thomas Page, CNN, 24 Mar. 2022
• Scotland is known for picturesque highlands and tartan-wearing highlanders, but now the country boasts the world's first floating wind farm.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 18 Oct. 2017
• Secean Johnson scored 17 points with seven rebounds for the Highlanders.
  — Orange County Register, 1 Mar. 2017
• Pem and her fellow highlanders have become some of the wealthiest people in Bhutan, the heart of an unusual economy.
  — Chris Jones, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2020
• Beall and others have shown that Tibetans, as well as highlanders of Ethiopia and the Andes, have adapted to elevation.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2019
• Linked together by a series of tiny medieval hamlets, the area is known for its distinct highlander culture, mysterious folk customs and ancient local tongue.
  — Melanie Hamilton, CNN, 16 Dec. 2021
• The seats, taken from a 2010 GMC Sierra, are covered in highlander plaid fabric.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 27 June 2019
• Highlander sales have been shrinking at the same time, down to just 51,782 last year, although Toyota is competing with itself to some extent.
  — New Atlas, 18 Feb. 2026
• The tan exterior is complemented by an orange highlander plaid interior.
  — Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic, 28 Jan. 2022
• Upland is slated to move from Division 1 to Division 2 this fall, making the Highlanders the early favorites to win a section title.
  — Eric Sondheimer, latimes.com, 24 June 2017
• Also new for 2017 on all Highlanders are an additional four USB ports for charging and connecting smartphones and tablets.
  — G. Chambers Williams Iii, star-telegram, 18 Aug. 2017
• The Highlanders combined to score 323, beating Immaculate-Danbury by 9.
  — Matthew Conyers, courant.com, 6 July 2017
• The plan was to compare 35 men suffering from CMS, all highlanders, with 20 healthy residents and with healthy people living at lower elevations.
  — Xing Liu, Science Magazine, 12 Sep. 2019
• Population groups that don’t have deep local roots, like the thousands of Guatemalan highlanders who have moved to the Bay Area in recent years, have become especially tough to track now that most face-to-face contact is impossible.
  — Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 24 Apr. 2020
• Sure, there have been plenty of highlights, with Balmain bringing aughts supermodels back to the catwalk and Stella Tennant delivering a highlander moment at Balenciaga.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2017
• The company sold 48,036 units of the larger SUV in that first year alone, compared to 169,543 traditional Highlanders.
  — Keith Laing, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2026