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Example sentences for "high point"

  • Stream 7 yards wide on the Lard Side below a high Point of Limestone rocks on the Stard Side this Creek heads in the mountains to the easte and forms a Vallie between two mountains.

  • I also Saw an old Village fortified Situated on the top of a high Point, which the Ricarra Chief tels me were Mandans, we Camped on the L.

  • On the other side is the highest elevation of the Kittatinny and the most elevated land in New Jersey, High Point, rising nineteen hundred and sixty feet.

  • A high point of land, which I named Cape Byron, bore N.

  • About seven o'clock we passed a high point of land, which lies S.

  • Near this place is a high point or peninsula, projecting into the river, and upon it are the remains of a fort, which they call eppah, or heppah.

  • Only one of these at a time fought the dog, while the others occupied a high point of vantage on which they had hastily climbed, and from that place of security displayed a keen interest in the fight.

  • As I have already stated, we had come along a dry river bed, and from my high point of vantage I could see its entire course to the north-west.

  • The gun with the bayonet had now become the principal infantry weapon, and artillery had been developed to a high point as compared with the previous era.

  • Furthermore, the fall was so rapid in some respects, and from such a high point in all, that the ultimate degradation, though deep enough, seemed by comparison to be worse than it was.

  • Captain Clarke who had walked on the south, on ascending a high point opposite to its entrance discovered a level and beautiful country which it watered; that its course for twelve or fifteen miles was N.

  • A little within the Entrance of the River on the East side is a high point or peninsula juting out into the River on which are the Remains of one of their Fortified towns.

  • The Bluff head or high point of land we were abreast off at Noon I have called Cape Turnagain because here we returned.

  • I observed on a high Point a fortified Village, but I could only see a part of the works, and as I intend to see the whole, shall say no more about it at this time.

  • FN] High Point, the highest elevation in the southern division of the range, is in New Jersey.

  • The schooner which had been sent round with provisions saw some of these people off a high point of land named Portland Head, who menaced them with their spears, and carried in their appearance every mark of hostility.

  • The hair was dark, and nature had favoured them with that ornament in uncommon profusion: this they mostly wore with powder, strained to a high point before, and tied in several folds behind.

  • I can compare the view to nothing but that of some manufacturing city like Pittsburg, as seen from a high point, except that instead of the black coal smoke there are here the white delicate clouds of steam.

  • He looked up to see a number of low, white and dark knobs upon the high point of lava.

  • They were upon a high point of the western slope of the plateau.

  • Ladd was restless and impatient and watchful, every little while rising to look up the far-reaching slope, and then to the right, where Yaqui's dark figure stood out from a high point of the rim.

  • From the mouth of Jointer Creek, across these unprotected sounds, to High Point of Cumberland Island, is eight miles.

  • After holding a consultation with Mr. Williams, he contracted to take the canoe and its captain across St. Andrew's Sound to High Point of Cumberland Island that day.

  • A high point of land or rock projecting into the sea beyond the line of coast; a headland; a high cape.

  • It is a high point of providence in a prince to cast an eye rather upon actions than persons.

  • Pan left his father to watch from a high point while he rode on five miles farther.

  • He did not join them, however, but made his way along the north slope to a high point where he could look down into the second corral.

  • Here from a high point of ground he observed the moving pace of dust and saw the black wheel-shaped mass of horses sweep down the valley like a storm.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "high point" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    became apparent; blue line; high and; high antiquity; high character; high mountain; high office; high peak; high potential; high rank; high repute; high sense; high speed; high treason; high trees; higher grade; higher infant mortality and death rates; higher stage; higher standard; higher type; highest point; highly esteemed; highly inclined; highly magnified; highly polished; highly prized