Sentence examples for were leaving high from inspiring English sources

Emotional screaming matches and even fistfights sometimes break out in the halls--a rude awakening for those students who (wrongly) assumed they were leaving high school antics behind them.

In this case, we were leaving high school less than a decade after race riots stained city streets (though not in our little village in western New York, where we watched it as spectators on the evening news, when our parents let us).

"When the previous centre closed, many families were left high and dry.

Unwarned commuters and children in school buses were left high, but not dry, as roads and railway tracks disappeared.

"We were left high and dry, and it started to settle in on the people that we were ditched," he said.

We were left high and dry, as the saying goes.

Chefs were left high and dry, and good Sichuan cuisine became an increasingly difficult prospect.

Two alleged robbers were left high and dry Thursday when a Burger King employee hid their getaway car, Fox 40 reported.

In California, "we were left high and dry, and Boston got our rain in the form of blizzards".

Those expecting the typically outspoken Seth Troxler to throw some verbal hand grenades (or at least notable quotables) were left high and dry.

Our Indian kids are leaving high school now with Algebra 1 -- no geometry, no trig -- and people wonder why they're failing out of college".