Sentence examples for highwater from inspiring English sources
noun
The state of the tide when the water is at its highest
The great lost genius of country music, who died from a drug overdose in 1973, plucked Harris from relative obscurity and together they made records which remain among the highwater marks of American roots music.
Since the highwater mark of the 1990s, when the number of US-manned military facilities in Britain reached 100 or so, the US presence has fallen to 13, ranging from RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk – one of the largest air bases outside the US – to a joint GCHQ and National Security Agency satellite station at Morwenstow in Cornwall.
In retrospect, the highwater mark of that hubris came a couple of weeks before Bush won re-election in November 2004 - when Karl Rove was marshalling the forces of Christian conservatives to defeat John Kerry, and when Bush loved to brag how he never looked at a newspaper.
"Highwater (for Charlie Patton)," which rides a jaunty banjo line and seems to recall the Mississippi flood of 1927, is also a kind of pocket-sized "Anthology of American Folk Music," quoting "Dust My Broom," "The Cuckoo Is a Pretty Bird," and others.
Shelley Duval's highwater mark.
Mr. Brown knows which side his board is waxed on, however — his family has been deeply involved in the mythmaking that sells surfing gear ever since his father, Bruce, made "The Endless Summer" in 1966 — and "Highwater" settles into celebratory mode.
Their work made the rest of the Hot 100 look like a gaggle of tourists wearing highwaters and clutching Fanta bottles, frozen on the lip of the dance floor.
Then they ridiculed the length of his suit pants, calling them "highwaters".
This year's cast of characters included Angela Mercy, Mother Load, Helen Highwater, Dwight Tornado, Festus Funninawest, Harmony Grits, and Russell M. Dogeeze.
To become her hard-nosed, business-savvy cousin, Taiwo Highwater, she simply puts on men's clothes and ties her hair into a ponytail.
With virtuosic intentions and variable results, Patrice Johnson is double cast as the good person and as her cousin, Taiwo Highwater, a capitalist.
