How to Use run high in a Sentence

run high

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  • Sawada said emotions have run high at times.
    Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Home prices tend to run high in suburbs filled with high earners.
    Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 4 July 2026
  • With so many people living in the same house, tensions run high.
    Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2022
  • When facing unplanned events like these, emotions are bound to run high.
    John Hall, Forbes, 16 May 2021
  • Tensions run high in the war between France and Britain.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Tensions always run high between sports fans of rival teams on game day.
    New Atlas, 26 Dec. 2025
  • But emotions run high when her longtime friend — and recent hook-up — joins the group at the lake house.
    Rodney Ho, ajc, 27 May 2022
  • Emotions can run high in the game of football, and even more so during the playoffs.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Tensions run high as food runs short and hundreds of thousands of people starve to death.
    The Arizona Republic, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Tensions run high at Comic-Con.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Replacement costs can run high, and even repairs may strain savings.
    Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Emotions can run high at big, hectic family events.
    Jennifer Moss, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Daughters knows that this is going to be dramatic, and that emotions will run high.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2024
  • But the sums run high enough that the market can only carry a slice of them at ordinary rates.
    Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
  • Lightning and gusty winds may be possible and small tributaries and rivers may run high.
    Julianna O'Clair, The Denver Post, 10 June 2024
  • So while emotions may run high, the upside is that this moment can lead to meaningful change.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 1 Apr. 2026
  • With the moon in your sign, emotions run high and relationship themes take precedence.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Being a governor hasn’t looked like much fun lately, and the stakes out West run high.
    Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Just look at the facts, which are typically overlooked when emotions run high.
    Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Bardugo knows when to let the action roar, when to let emotions run high, and when to chase the theatrics with a wink and a smile.
    Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Trayce Thompson collected his seventh home run high off the foul pole in the second.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2022
  • But with so much water already in the system, many rivers will continue to run high even after the rain ends.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Cleveland officials have some qualms about a company that wants to run high speed broadband lines all through the city.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 19 July 2023
  • Emotions will of course run high, and the on-field action should be legitimately great.
    Chris Branch, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • In the wee hours of the morning, after a long night spent dealing with a fire in the town, emotions run high among the four siblings.
    Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Can GloRilla and Mustard run high pick-and-roll?
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
  • While emotions and opinions have run high throughout the trial, there were no big outbursts or violence.
    Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Nov. 2021
  • The beach is also used by swimmers and standup paddle boarders, and tensions can run high if too many people are in the water.
    Erin Mendell, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
  • In the exclusive trailer above, tensions run high as mishaps, big and small, cause conflict amid stressful working days.
    Antonia Debianchi, PEOPLE.com, 21 June 2022
  • Emotions will run high, but the effects of this super potent lunation could take up to half a year to manifest.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 5 Mar. 2025

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