Sentence examples for heights from inspiring English sources

The word 'heights' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe a physical location or an emotional state or a figurative sense of immense success or potential. Example sentence: She was reaching new heights in her career.

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heights

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Plural of height

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"Even as he was encouraging young people to reach for greater heights for themselves, he was working to attain his own educational goals," the school said.

At the height of Cleggmania in April 2010 the party reached the giddy heights of 33% in a YouGov poll, and briefly took first place ahead of both the Tories and Labour.

His second arrived on 66 minutes, smashing home a rebound, before the 29-year-old completed Real's 18th straight win by slotting home at the far post 28 Real Madrid 9-1 Granada, La Liga, 5 April 2015 Ronaldo reached new heights against Granada, scoring a hat-trick in eight first-half minutes.

It is sad that he never recaptured the political heights despite bursts of brilliance, and never found a new political role big enough for his talents.

Budget cuts had led to serious understaffing across the NHS, so it was no surprise that cancelled operations were reaching such heights, he added.

The rise of the Real Madrid superstar Gareth Bale and the Arsenal playmaker Aaron Ramsey, not to mention a healthy sprinkling of solid Premier League performers, has taken expectation levels in Wales to new heights as Coleman's squad start out on the road to Euro 2016 in the tiny football outpost.

The pile of excrement has grown to historic heights.

Up on the rarefied and leafy heights of Kolonaki, home to some of central Athens' most expensive shops and their exceedingly well-heeled clientele, it was hard to find anyone really upset by Syriza's victory – or worried by Tsipras's warning that the vote was "a defeat for the oligarchs and elites".

And while Unfriended might not reach the giddy fright heights it aims for (there's a bit too much minimising and maximising windows to fully terrify), it's a smartly constructed set of tricks.

The developing story of high-level corruption (reaching the very heights of the political establishment – a dream for any decent journalist anywhere in the world) was declared by the news management to be an area surrounded by "barbed wire".

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A return to the thriller genre with Pacific Heights (1990) had its moments, thanks to Michael Keaton's over-the-top performance as a lodger from hell and Schlesinger's guest appearance, and he took a larger role as Derek in the television play based on a gay novel, The Lost Language Of Cranes (1991).

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