How to Use highland in a Sentence

highland

1 of 2 noun

• Lev-Ram: The highlands of Guatemala is where this came to her, this epiphany.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2024
• The snow in the highlands has brought the ptarmigan down to places where hunters are able to access them.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Nov. 2019
• Scotland saw a peak gust of 106 mph in Aonach Mor, a mountain in the highlands.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024
• These three samples were used to sequence the highland wild dogs’ genomes.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Sep. 2020
• Lasso's office in a statement said 12 of the victims died in the coastal state of El Oro and two in the highlands state of Azuay.
  — Gonzalo Solano, ajc, 19 Mar. 2023
• It's known as Aphrodite Terra, which is the largest highland region on Venus.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Feb. 2021
• The state forest comprises more than 9,000 acres of the highlands.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 1 Oct. 2019
• But since the early 1990s, the team found, the highlands' long rainy season had gone into a steep decline.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 15 Apr. 2020
• At the health clinic in Migowi in Malawi’s southern highlands, workers see signs of hope.
  — Lauran Neergaard, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2020
• The main inflow is the Kagera River, which drains the highlands of Rwanda and Burundi.
  — Emily J. Beverly, Quartz Africa, 26 Jan. 2020
• In the highland city of Cochabamba, scenes have emerged of bodies lying in the streets and coffins waiting for days in homes to be taken away.
  — Fox News, 10 July 2020
• Two of the species, Electrophorus electricus and E. voltai, live in the highland regions of the Amazon.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2019
• Scrubby tundra basked in the Sun’s rays on the island’s northwest highlands.
  — Paul Bierman, Fortune, 24 July 2023
• The other, a 200-year-old farmhouse, crowns the Pokut highland and requires a four-wheel drive to climb its treacherous road.
  — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Jan. 2022
• The North Bay will have the highest chance of showers, with up to a third of an inch of rain possible in some of the Sonoma County highlands.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 May 2023
• The east side of the city is literally highland, overlooking the lake from a roughly 100-foot-high bluff.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2022
• The plains of Elysium Planitia, found along the Martian equator, are between highlands to the south and west and volcanoes to the north and east.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Feb. 2020
• Ben Nevis is a highland distillery that sits at the base of Ben Nevis mountain and is known for its flavorful and robust malts.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
• The agave used to produce Volcan comes from highlands and lowlands fields, and is grown in volcanic soil that surrounds the volcano that gives the brand its name.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 30 Mar. 2023
• Mid-range hotels with hot springs on site are the norm here, but for a break from the slopes, take a day trip to see the snow monkeys in their own hot spring, or tour the highlands on snowshoes.
  — Selena Takigawa Hoy, Travel + Leisure, 24 Nov. 2023
• Burning coal and grasslands in Africa The burning season in Africa begins in December as the rains trail off in the highlands.
  — Daniel Wolfe, Quartz, 14 Jan. 2020
• The Loch Ness monster, nicknamed Nessie, is a creature speculated to live in the lake in the Scottish highlands.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2023
• William Mendoza, 45, fled Guatemala's western highlands with his 17-year-old son, thinking he would be freed in the U.S. with a notice to appear in court.
  — Elliot Spagat, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2019
• Up in the highlands of the Ethiopian plateau grows a tree with bright red fruit that came to profoundly shape morning rituals for people all over the world.
  — Lesley Evans Ogden, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
• Bring back the reed and the reef, set the ice sheet back on its frozen plinth, tuck the restless watercourse into its bed, sit the glacier down on its highland throne, put the snow cap back on the mountain peak.
  — Simon Armitage, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
• The sound of a passing dust devil was recorded on Mars, where a four-hour marsquake revealed that shear waves move faster in the planet’s southern highlands.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
• This makes Glengoyne an ideal option if your trip is too short to go trekking into the highlands or islands.
  — Mark Littler, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• The old town had highlands that remained dry year-round, where the Urarina farmed staples such as yucca and plantains.
  — Daniel Grossman, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2020
• The exact spot sits on a highland plain that is currently owned by Hibbing Taconite.
  — Kerri Westenberg, Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
• The term seitho refers to an ancestral home, which for my Abagusii tribemates is the lush, red-clayed highland that covers the Kisii region of Kenya.
  — Jakki Kerubo, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020

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highland

2 of 2 adjective

• Adam Batirov, who has also competed for a team in Bahrain, said of Dagestan’s highland wrestlers.
  — Photographs and Text By Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2018
• Mexico City’s central neighborhoods were built on the bed of a long since drained highland lake on whose islands the Aztecs had built their city.
  — Daniela Hernandez, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2017
• But highland areas about the size of Britain are populated mainly by Papuans.
  — Washington Post, 24 June 2019
• Chest heaving and eyes fluttering, the 3-year-old boy lay silently on a hospital ward in the highland town of Hajjah, a bag of bones fighting for breath.
  — Declan Walsh, The Seattle Times, 26 Oct. 2018
• Highlander’s seats are extremely comfortable too, soft but not squishy and firm enough and well formed to provide good back, hip and shoulder support.
  — Mark Savage, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2017
• The holiday is filled with gorgeous Scottish vistas and highland balls, but the Flintshire household is a deeply unhappy one.
  — Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez, Town & Country, 12 Sep. 2018
• Some of the victims showed evidence of skull deformations, a custom that was practice in some of the highland areas during that time.
  — Maria Clark, NOLA.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• The zoo has been around since the late 1800s and today -- besides the famous capybaras -- is home to bison, llamas, peacocks, reindeer, highland cattle, wallabies, emus and sheep.
  — Karen Bliss, Billboard, 25 June 2017
• The landscape feels almost Scottish, as highland vistas alternate with rolling clouds.
  — Ely Portillo [e-mail], charlotteobserver, 15 Aug. 2017
• In one, there are wild barley seeds, normally found in highland pastures, held together in small canvas pouches.
  — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
• Although researchers have long thought that the island's mountainous terrain kept highland groups isolated, this study finds that the clusters formed in both the highlands and lowlands—where the terrain is flatter.
  — Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 14 Sep. 2017
• The recovery has been significantly slower and less effective in remote and highland areas—but parts of San Juan, too.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 21 Dec. 2017
• Calmo returned to Todos Santos two years later, but soon joined an exodus of highland residents who no longer felt welcome or safe.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2019
• The 2019 Mustang Bullitt, which features dark highland green exterior paint and chrome accents, is expected to be available this summer.
  — Kirsten Korosec, Fortune, 15 Jan. 2018
• Take a cinematic cruise down the long flat farm roads, cooing at highland cattle and relaxed quarter horses or stop to collect a local farmer’s bounty in exchange for a few dollars in the honor system jar.
  — Kaitlyn Wylde, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2018
• But because the bloody sprees of a highland fugitive—however poetic—were not really a proper tribute for a U.S. president, the lyrics would be rewritten several times.
  — Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
• But because the bloody sprees of a highland fugitive—however poetic—were not really a proper tribute for a U.S. president, the lyrics would be rewritten several times.
  — Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• James' father, a millionaire hotel owner, renovated the estate to include a posh lodge and cabins, which visitors can rent for a luxe highland getaway.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 June 2018
• Evidence for cranial modification, practiced in some highland areas at the time, also supports the idea that children were brought to the coast from farther-flung areas of Chimú influence.
  — National Geographic, 26 Apr. 2018
• Generally, highland tequilas tend to be more floral and citrus while lowland varieties carry more earthy notes.
  — Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 24 July 2019
• The paperwork for disappeared children—even forms that have been falsified—generally locates the children’s birthplaces in the indigenous, highland regions of Guatemala, not the border area near Mexico.
  — Rachel Nolan, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• The central highland state of Guanajuato was predicted to go to a candidate of the conservative National Action Party.
  — Washington Post, 1 July 2018
• The event features competitions in bagpiping, drumming, highland dancing, athletics and sheep dog trials.
  — Carolina Gusman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 May 2017
• Thousands of spectators attend the yearly event, in which clansmen test one another’s prowess in various competitions, including bagpiping, drumming, highland dancing and sheep dog trials.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 2019
• Adam Batirov, who has also competed for a team in Bahrain, said of Dagestan’s highland wrestlers.
  — Photographs and Text By Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2018
• Mexico City’s central neighborhoods were built on the bed of a long since drained highland lake on whose islands the Aztecs had built their city.
  — Daniela Hernandez, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2017
• But highland areas about the size of Britain are populated mainly by Papuans.
  — Washington Post, 24 June 2019
• Chest heaving and eyes fluttering, the 3-year-old boy lay silently on a hospital ward in the highland town of Hajjah, a bag of bones fighting for breath.
  — Declan Walsh, The Seattle Times, 26 Oct. 2018
• Highlander’s seats are extremely comfortable too, soft but not squishy and firm enough and well formed to provide good back, hip and shoulder support.
  — Mark Savage, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2017
• The holiday is filled with gorgeous Scottish vistas and highland balls, but the Flintshire household is a deeply unhappy one.
  — Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez, Town & Country, 12 Sep. 2018

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