Sentence examples for high on something from inspiring English sources

The phrase "high on something" is used in written English and can be used to describe someone who is under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
For example, "The concert-goer was clearly high on something, staggering around the room and shouting obscenities."

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He often seemed high on something.

"Virtually all of Burroughs's writing was done when he was high on something," Miles writes.

Kent is high on something, and as self-absorbed as his idol.

Those who knew Destiny presumed that she was high on something.

"He would be talking your ear off if he didn't know you so long as he was high on something".

"What usually happens is I get high on something, and he talks me out of it," she said.

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But she was willing to take on something high-profile.

It's getting high, but on something that's not musical.

The scrumpy of my youth, sometimes as strong as 9/10% abv, and illegally sold to me as a teenager visiting relatives in Somerset, had some complexity and vigour, but the over-alcoholised modern equivalent is merely a route for the young to get pissed as quickly as possible and for cider companies to make an indecently high return on something with no more character than an alcopop.

Write high quality steps on something you know a lot about.

Or they would play Joplin, The Beatles, Hendrix, The Who, The Doors... as well as some really weird music that had to have been composed while high on acid or something.

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