How to Use in high places in a Sentence

in high places

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• Mack had friends in high places on campus from his first term.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 10 July 2020
• Clearly, the series has fans in high places.
  — PC Magazine, 12 Oct. 2025
• Corruption in high places remains a test for the country.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 15 July 2025
• People in high places may take note of your passion for perfection and give your ideas the go-ahead.
  — Magi Helena, oregonlive, 14 June 2020
• And the museum has received very public signs of support from friends in high places.
  — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Jan. 2023
• Keep these plants in high places inaccessible to pets and small children.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 28 Feb. 2021
• Adele has fans in high places (including the British government).
  — Vogue, 7 Oct. 2021
• People in high places always discriminate against those who are lower down.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2025
• Like Danny, Lena also has family in high places.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
• Their life looks glamorous — closets full of fashion, an arcade room, friends in high places — and hides some notable secrets.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 10 Feb. 2022
• As outlandish and self-aggrandizing as that may seem, Tania has allies in high places to help her on this holy mission.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 8 Aug. 2023
• Nobody wanted to go there — well, except the oil and gas companies aching to root around for black gold, and their most loyal minions in high places.
  — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2026
• Moreover, the department depended on a system of watchmen perched in high places to spot the first glints of an inferno.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• Unfortunately, with friends in high places, then usually come others attempting to climb that social ladder.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2022
• Amyl and The Sniffers’ irrepressible charge has caught the attention of many folks in high places, some unexpected.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 4 Dec. 2025
• Although the channel’s viewership is low, Newsmax has Republican friends in high places.
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• Ospreys like to build their nests in high places with clear views, including dead old trees and structures that resemble them, like utility poles, channel markers and cellphone towers.
  — Mark Vancleave, Twin Cities, 11 Sep. 2025
• The full machinery of the state was being unleashed, which suggested that people in high places had much to lose if Consuelo Porras was no longer at the helm.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2022
• Navalny was a thorn in Putin’s side, exposing corruption in high places and orchestrating some of the biggest anti-government protests seen in recent years.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 16 Feb. 2025
• Tolerating low standards Low standards in high places undermine everything.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
• Montgomery, who could not immediately be reached for comment, has long dabbled in conspiracy theories and has a track record of persuading people in high places to invest in them.
  — John D'anna, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2020
• In reality, the Filipino public is also becoming impatient with the drama in high places, Atienza said.
  — Kathleen Magramo, CNN Money, 17 May 2025
• At first glance, Porter would seem to benefit, because the allegations against Swalwell surely enrage women, given the pattern of men in high places being outed as serial abusers.
  — Dan Walters, Oc Register, 14 Apr. 2026
• There’s also the issue of the plot — corruption in high places leading to Rambo-like action set pieces — which was silly back then but beyond preposterous now that everyone is 40 years older.
  — Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 2 July 2024
• First, as Venus slips into Taurus and your 10th house of authority and publicity, love could blossom in professional settings or through people in high places.
  — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 6 June 2025
• As the investigation peaked in late 2017, detectives stumbled onto startling evidence of Lin’s influence in high places.
  — Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 12 July 2023
• With his Tisza party jubilant over its win, Peter Magyar warned of difficulties ahead as his new government faces economic woes and Orban allies in high places.
  — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2026
• The three Aud books are novels of character, crime fiction that uses the classic tropes of noir — first-person narrator, fast-moving prose, corruption in high places and crimes of desperation in the urban underbelly — without being noir.
  — Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
• Her husband’s political movement and his foundation, which exposed corruption in high places, were declared extremist organizations in 2021 and barred from operating in Russia.
  — Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024