• The fox cleared a six-foot high fence to get among the chickens and would have killed them all had it not been disturbed.
• Deep in the heart of Central India there is a wild forest surrounded by sheer 1,200 feet high cliffs.
• The two-and-a-half tonne boat was lowered down a sheer cliff 200 ft high.

• Most sports utility vehicles are so high off the ground that your dog has to be virtually airborne or a St Bernard to be able to climb in.
• Filming at high altitude in the Peruvian Andes wasn't always much fun.
• At high altitudes, the thin air makes it hard to breathe unless the cabin is pressurized.

• His hair was receding at the front and he had a high forehead.
• Her broad flat forehead and high cheekbones catch the light from the windows behind them.
• She's either not made up or has applied very subtle cosmetics to her high forehead and cute snub nose.

• The traditional territory contains a diversity of landscapes with rugged mountains and numerous valleys and high prairies.
• This species ranged the high grasslands of western North America from Alaska to Mexico, while a lighter-built species (Arctodus pristinus) with smaller teeth inhabited the more heavily wooded Atlantic coastal region.

• In terms of risk, this is on a par with high diving into a piranha pool.
• Born in Thirsk in 192, he excelled early in a variety of sports, and became a champion in boxing, high diving, and pole vaulting.
• Southall was finally booked for his second late and high lunge on the Norwegian Riise inside five minutes.

• They also occur more often in the winter and in the middle to high latitudes rather than near to the equator.
• It is found in the recently glaciated areas of the Northern hemisphere and high latitudes in the Southern hemisphere.
• These then flow from the high latitudes, circulating cool water throughout the world's ocean basins.

• But poker is most interesting when the stakes are high and small fortunes rest on the draw of a card.
• You are 65, but you played for high stakes over several years, and eventually you lost.
• It seems to me that many in the U.S. don't quite appreciate how high the stakes are.

• I don't mind you talking about me to your friends, but it doesn't seem any of them have a very high opinion of me. maybe rightly.
• The fact that Britain's No 2 has a ferocious serve and a high opinion of his own abilities only makes matters worse.
• Self-esteem means having a high opinion of ourselves regardless of what we may or may not have done to earn it.

Synonyms

• The most striking characteristic of this political approach is the author's patent partiality and clear adherence to high Tory principles.
• Christina, like her mother and sister Maria, was a devout High Anglican, much influenced by the Tractarians.

• The existing public lavatory is used by 600 people a day in high summer.
• If succulent plants are kept out in the high summer months then they get affected.
• It was high summer when I was there and as the days rolled on and flawless blue sky followed flawless blue sky, it began to get a little boring.

• Brian Ború was crowned King of Munster here in 977 and he became High King of Ireland in 1002.
• The site was considered the capital of Ireland, when it became the seat of the High King, who would rule the dozens of kingdoms that had emerged across the country.

• The auteur's true genius lies in his ability to combine high art with popular culture.
• The Czechs are nothing if not talented musicians with a deep love of fine culture and high art.
• One final relevant feature of postmodernity is its mixture of popular and high culture.

Synonyms

• He wrote several so-called ‘concert’ arias, tailor-made for Aloysia's astonishing high soprano.
• His energy in concert was quite inspiring, each song found him stomping about the stage, singing in a high tenor with sparse instrumentation provided by an acoustic guitar.
• The G clef is used for the upper staff of keyboard music, the soprano voice, and the high instruments (e.g. violin or flute).

• The meat was quite high with complex strong flavours, which is just the way I like it.

• From the mellow, dark low register to brilliant instrumental highs, his sound is beautiful - like musical crystal.
• She improvised the notes, the highs and lows but still stuck to the original song.
• Excellent move, because the iRiver's audio quality remains one of the best on the market, with eardrum-busting bass notes or ethereal highs.

• A similar phenomenon occurs when you have a heater set on high in an overheated room with all the windows and doors closed.
• I lie in bed, clad in shorts and a tank top, with the fan on high and all the windows open.
• When the rice is cooked, microwave the cabbage on high for two to three minutes or until soft.

• The high may move northward to cover Scotland or stay stuck just south of the UK.
• These intermittent highs effectively separate the northwestern trough from the deep-water regions of the Hatton-Rockall and Iceland Basins to the west.

• Cannabis does alter your mind. It can make you more irritable, or sometimes depress you, or sometimes put you on a high.
• Fortunately, I was on a high by now, and energy was pouring out of me.
• I was on a high for the rest of the night, and it lasted until the next day.

Synonyms

• PC vendors may even keep their prices high and use the cuts to fatten their own margins.
• At one time it had instituted proceedings against more than 130 banks for colluding to keep prices high.
• It depends in part on how high the oil price goes and for how long.