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Example sentences for "little higher"

  • He moved through the grass and flowers beside her, a little higher still, and between her and the sun.

  • Endeavouring to draw himself a little higher, a minie ball went through his shoulder.

  • We'll raise you a little higher," they said, "and you can see for yourself.

  • Tulchuherris teased him till he went a little higher; then he gave a harder pull than before.

  • I cannot go high," said Sas; "but I will go a little higher than I did the first time.

  • I wanted to stay where you were," answered Tulchuherris; "but I will go a little higher.

  • We found two similar huts on the creek where we next arrived; and, traveling a little higher up, encamped on its banks in about four feet depth of snow.

  • A little higher up the creek its banks are formed by strata of very heavy and hard scoriaceous basalt, having a bright metallic lustre when broken.

  • A little higher up are the hospital and church.

  • The principal source of the Hérault is a little higher, towards the W.

  • There were some houses a little higher up, and we determined to go thither and make further inquiries.

  • After we had passed the tarn the glen became less interesting, or rather the mountains, from the manner in which they are looked at; but again, a little higher up, they resume their grandeur.

  • There are a few merchants in Sandwick parish who get fish from a few boats there-James Smith, James Mouat, and Thomas Tulloch-and they always give a little higher.

  • I am certain it is, because his prices must be a little higher in consequence.

  • Looking far to the north we observed that these singular ice forms were growing in size and splendor, so that it seemed advisable to rise a little higher to avoid a collision.

  • He was examining the crimson shells a little higher up the shore.

  • Around this the water ran directly into the land, forming a diminutive lake a little higher up, with grassy slopes upon every side.

  • The interior and eastern groups share a little higher incidence of pronounced brow ridges; the other regions are nearer the total distribution of variations.

  • The interior Fijians have a little higher frequency of low nasal root (10 per cent), whereas the eastern people, with a 30 per cent incidence, excel in the pronounced category.

  • The eastern and interior groups have a little higher frequency in the submedium class.

  • Others may raise their eyes a little higher, but in the end, like the old Romans laughed at by Horace, they value education only in so far forth as it is a money-making machine.

  • Its height is the same; the neck is a little higher up, and is encircled by a single fillet of an undulating curvature.

  • The Massabielle water has merely some very powerful mineral qualities, like those which are found in the springs of Barèges or Cauterets, a little higher up in the mountains.

  • Tiger pursued him, and both reloaded while running, till the Weico reached the spot where he now lay, and the Delaware sprang on the grass plot a little higher up.

  • They had crossed the river a little higher up, at a point where it was shallow, and lay down on its banks, as they expected that the savages would return during the night to try and get hold of our horses.

  • This road for many miles was probably 8,000 feet above the sea, so that this elevation had the effect to dwarf the mountains that rose only a little higher.

  • The bones are then cleaned, and cut through at a little higher level.

  • Sometimes the division takes place a little higher, even at the junction of the last lumbar vertebra and the sacrum.

  • A little farther on, a little higher," came her delicious answer.

  • A little higher--where we cannot hear the wicked bells," she cried, and for the first time seized him deliberately by the hand.

  • In examining the creek a little higher up, we found another well.

  • It is upwards of one hundred feet high, the lower part red sand; but a little higher up is a course of limestone.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little higher" 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:
    little attention; little avail; little ball; little band; little bell; little beyond; little brother; little brothers; little church; little cinnamon; little east; little group; little half; little love; little man; little neighbor; little patch; little picture; little present; little reason; little scream; little seasonal temperature variation; little snow; little things; little tired; little weary