Sentence examples for stood high from inspiring English sources

Sartorial elegance never stood high on his list of priorities.

Now it happened that Miltiades stood high in the favour of Croesus, king of Lydia.

Our 10-room, terracotta-brick house stood high on a hill overlooking the reservation".

Point Dume's cliff, a shark fin of stone, stood high over tan sand.

We stood high on a rock wall, perched 2,300 feet above the Jordan Valley.

The BBC stood high and proud, dear for her reputation through the world.

Now all around me stood high-rises, slick and hard-edged, looming above manicured campuses of grassy geometry and well-groomed flower beds.

Never has de Gaulle's reputation stood higher.

Davis discovered that beneath Reed Elsevier's warring senior management stood high-quality publishing assets; what was needed was more urgency on the marketing side.

It stands high in the Kalahari desert, towards Botswana.

In Rome, workmen stand high on the scaffolding, smoking cigarettes.