How to Use high relief in a Sentence

high relief

noun

• The cities’ differences were in high relief at high school graduation.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2021
• The memorial became the largest high relief sculpture in the world, depicting Davis, Lee and Jackson on horseback, their figures stretched across three acres.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2017
• The most imposing sculpture is a 17th-century metal plaque showing the figure of a royal courtier in high relief.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2021
• But, in one of the most striking photographs, three fleeing figures—two women and a man, in high relief against a gray background—do occupy the central space.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2021
• The optics of having an award expected to be used as a celebration of a life of a Black actor suddenly won by a white one stand out in high relief, but beyond that, the pacing of the whole thing was deeply abrupt.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk and Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2021
• These circumstances are cast in high relief when a single event — like Ida or Henri or a summer downpour — reveals just how fragile a system really is.
  — Diana Budds, Curbed, 2 Sep. 2021
• There have been dozens of train wrecks that might have been avoided were positive train control in place, but the Amtrak crashes in Washington state and Philadelphia stand in high relief because of the fatalities and mass injuries.
  — Ashley Halsey Iii, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2018
• Misty’s willingness to cross boundaries, not just to menace but to endanger, puts into high relief the grief of Natalie, another outsider, who is also unstable.
  — The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
• The contemporary design and engineering of the movement come alive when positioned in high relief against the Razzle Dazzle pattern, breaking up the monochrome look of previous Freak X models.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 5 May 2021
• Juxtaposed with Athey, an extremist of an effectively harmless sort, narratives of bloody martyrdom as the path to salvation are thrown into high relief.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2021
• Which brought our collective hurtle toward catastrophe into high relief.
  — Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2022

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