How to Use from on high in a Sentence

from on high

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• Someone has to build the bombs, and someone else to drop them from on high.
  — Robert Rubsam, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• This means that any idea or change cannot simply be mandated from on high.
  — Yec, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• The order for that spinoff, which premieres on Sunday with Mayim Bialik as host, came from on high.
  — Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2022
• The restaurant is on the 49th floor, and diners can sit up against floor-to-ceiling windows for a spectacular peek at the city from on high.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2021
• Days before the midterms, the DeSantis campaign released a video that cast his rise as ordained from on high.
  — Jonathan Swan, New York Times, 13 May 2023
• Watching from on high are San’s nephew and father, seated in the stands and tracking their relative’s every move.
  — Roman Hodel, The New Yorker, 20 May 2021
• Their back-up vocals, which featured dazzling, razor-sharp call-and-response harmonies that soared from on high, helped propel the song up the pop charts in 1973.
  — Eddie Dean, WSJ, 29 July 2022
• Official guidance seems handed down from on high, rather than based on studies.
  — Roxanne Khamsi, Wired, 16 Nov. 2020
• Such beautiful catharsis gleaned from musical notes sent down from on high.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
• This yearly lecture from on high is conceived to show Obama’s smarter-than-a-populist diversions.
  — Armond White, National Review, 22 Dec. 2021
• The Oxford English Dictionary always seemed to me like the Rules from on high—near biblical, laid down long ago by a distant academic elite.
  — Stephanie Hayes, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2023
• And then there is the structure itself, with its towering walls of stone, its flying buttresses and its weird populace of gargoyles and grotesques watching the city from on high.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2022
• The story of why these legislatures, and dozens of others like them throughout the country, are ignoring the alarming enclosure of voting rights from on high is the story of the rise of the Trumpian right.
  — David Daley, The New Republic, 15 Oct. 2020
• His is not the commanding voice of authority from on high that a surgeon general, such as the bearded and wise elder C. Everett Koop.
  — Washington Post, 12 July 2020
• Pronouncements from on high, no matter how well meaning, only have effect if people listen—and Johnston’s staffers took his words to heart.
  — Harvey Solomon, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2020
• Apparently, Cheney missed the memo from on high that these inconvenient facts are off-message and verboten.
  — Charlie Dent, CNN, 10 May 2021
• They weren’t built for dogfights in the air—their original intent was to intercept the bombers cruising at altitude and dropping ordinance straight down from on high.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 May 2022
• Unfortunately, this plea from on high only provoked users — many of whom were from the most recent influx of Twitter refugees — to insist that posts were definitely skeets.
  — Sarah Jeong, The Verge, 2 May 2023
• Unfortunately, this plea from on high only provoked users — many of whom were from the most recent influx of Twitter refugees — to insist that posts were definitely skeets.
  — Sarah Jeong, The Verge, 2 May 2023
• When his teams were thinking about how to best apply digital transformation in the context of sustainability for their clients, the strategy didn’t come from on high.
  — Bruce Rogers, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
• The sideline was lifeless, sending an ominous message to the university decision makers watching from on high.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2021
• Such signals from on high, the argument holds, shape decisions made by investors who are already nervous about finding returns in an industry with a rocky track record of delivering them.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2022
• The shift is subtle, but betrays the deeply rooted, implicit belief in one true definition—a definition that should be handed down to patients and families from on high by experts.
  — WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
• Poring through dispatches from on high, scientists have delivered the remarkable details of Kepler-16b.
  — Paul Raeburn, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2011
• Some apologists have found enough elasticity in their imaginations to stretch to the point of calling it an exception to God’s law, a test of faith from on high, considering it an honorable sacrifice, blah-blah-blah.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
• In the effort to combat an infectious disease, Dr. Lane stressed the importance of cooperating with local tribal, village and religious leaders, rather than dictating to them from on high.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2020
• Klein had spent a lifetime analyzing the dominant power as oligarchic: relentless, resolute, delivered from on high.
  — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• But dictates from on high never understand the particulars of actual needs and opportunities.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• Outside, after sheriff’s deputies had escorted him and other relatives from the courtroom, Lanez’s father continued ranting, cursing the record label Roc Nation for supposedly rigging the trial and promising a comeuppance from on high.
  — Erika D. Smithcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2022
• Organizational directives like sensitivity classes and mandatory implicit bias training have come from on high, but the rank and file remains overwhelmingly white and used to department traditions.
  — New York Times, 1 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 19 Aug 2024