How to Use high road in a Sentence
high road
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But for the sake of her newborn niece, Kim vowed to take the high road.
—Aurelie Corinthios, PEOPLE.com, 8 May 2018
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The State of the Union is always a good venue for taking the high road.
—Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2019
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Stay on the high road to achieve your long-term career goals.
—Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 4 Aug. 2021
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But the moral high road is earned, not self-proclaimed.
—Gentry Estes, The Courier-Journal, 4 June 2018
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Well, these kids took the high road standing up for what’s right.
—Don Sweeney, sacbee, 19 Mar. 2018
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Steering the car to the high road in no way means scars do not remain.
—Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2022
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Take the high road, and give your all to what’s essential.
—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 20 June 2019
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The Lions would be smart to take the high road and find a way to make things right with Johnson.
—Jamie Samuelsen, Detroit Free Press, 5 June 2019
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What was the minimum to ensure Sean stayed on the high road the next time around?
—Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 16 July 2017
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The courage and intelligence to know what to stand up for, when to fight and when to take the high road.
—Lz Granderson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2020
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The story of falling on the sword and always taking the high road.
—Melinda Newman, Billboard, 27 May 2021
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Melania could have stayed silent and taken the high road.
—Madeleine Marr, miamiherald, 9 Oct. 2017
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To many Democrats, impeachment looks like the moral high road.
—The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2019
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Women are not required to take the high road when things like this are done to them.
—Jaya Saxena, GQ, 11 Jan. 2018
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The team was upstairs and took the high road, never confronting them.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2021
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The moral high road is as much an asset in this fight as any weapon system.
—Mac William Bishop, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2022
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The only thing Hunter can do is take the high road when the queens offer him a chance to let the other men have it.
—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 13 July 2021
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So will the first to summit the Iseran, the highest road pass in the French Alps that hasn't been climbed by the Tour for 12 years.
—John Leicester, baltimoresun.com, 5 July 2019
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And Democrats should take the high road rather than use the Niger tragedy for political gain.
—The Tylt, cleveland.com, 24 Oct. 2017
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The Buffaloes take the high road, will let Nebraska do the talking.
—oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2019
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Since then, a bevy of new tools for taking the high road has flooded the marketplace.
—Monica Corcoran Harel, Marie Claire, 31 Mar. 2017
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Hikers at one spot can take the high road by crawling through a hole in the rock or the low road on a trail just below.
—Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 21 Dec. 2021
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Choose the high road and that green-eyed monster will soon disappear.
—Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 9 Sep. 2021
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On her Instagram Story, Natasha seemed to take the high road.
—Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com, 7 Sep. 2021
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Sanders took the high road in on Twitter after the incident.
—John Bacon, USA TODAY, 24 June 2018
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Hikers, all is not lost because the alright people take the high road and do the grunt work of fixing the malfeasance of the few.
—Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 29 Oct. 2022
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Coombs took the high road: Coombs will stick up for his players, however.
—Nathan Baird, cleveland, 20 Jan. 2020
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The Astros also have the highest road OPS (.805) in baseball.
—Mike Barner, SI.com, 3 July 2018
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Chris Rock might be taking the high road in the aftermath of that Oscars slap, but the same cannot be said for some of his fans.
—Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2022
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Women were encouraged to take the high road, to be the moral centers of the family, to cinch up their corset and carry on.
—Dina Gachman, Glamour, 17 Nov. 2022
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