Examples of 'high-water mark' in a sentence

Meaning of "high-water mark"

A high-water mark refers to the highest level that something has reached, either literally or metaphorically. In a literal sense, it can be the highest recorded water level in a body of water. In a metaphorical sense, it can represent the peak or pinnacle of an achievement or success
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  • A mark, such as a line of seaweed, showing the highest level reached by a body of water.
  • The peak or apex of something; the maximum level; the furthest or highest point.

How to use "high-water mark" in a sentence

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high-water mark
Between high-water mark and lowwater mark.
Construct your dock above the high-water mark.
This was the high-water mark of his reign.
The line of seaweed marks the high-water mark.
This was the high-water mark for the fraternity.
Make sure your campsite is above the high-water mark.
But the high-water mark on growth is probably behind us.
May well have been the high-water mark of their.
The high-water mark of scepticism has receded somewhat.
But that was the high-water mark of protest.
Low high-water mark passed to the patentees as appurtenant.
The seventeenth century marked the high-water mark of kirk discipline.
The high-water mark for economic growth is probably behind us.
Alternanthera littoralis grows in coastal sands down to the high-water mark.
But clearly the high-water mark had been reached.

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There are multiple downsides with having too broad of a spectrum on the high-water mark.
Higbees corner window was traditionally a high-water mark of the pre-Christmas season.
In reality, the high-water mark of the age of human rights was a historic memory.
These proposed amendments are by no means the high-water mark of the right to housing.
High-water mark of the Confederacy in the western theater.
They do not have to exceed their previous high-water mark in order to draw a paycheck.
Use untreated cedar or hemlock timbers for structures below the average annual high-water mark.
There was a mine field at the high-water mark which was fenced on the landward side.
These materials should not be removed from areas under the average annual high-water mark.
The fleet purchase also sets a high-water mark for corporate fleet greening.
Any berm or retaining wall must also be located above the average annual high-water mark.
The first wave of the surveys was a high-water mark for participation in local government meetings.
That means the amount households gobble up may even have passed its high-water mark.
It is known as the high-water mark of the Confederacy.
The conquest of France is the high-water mark.
A high-water mark in such a development has been reached in our Western European civilization.
But approval of the education bill may be the high-water mark of that effort.
At a flood 's high-water mark the Nile Valley was a serene composition of water and desert.
Other states such as California use the high-water mark.
It would prove to be the high-water mark of the German invasion.
O Removal of logs of blocks from the forest above the high-water mark.
As a result, the high-water mark for global productivity and GDP growth may have been reached.
History recalls this battle as the high-water mark of the Confederacy.
This was the high-water mark of the Restored Hanthawaddy Kingdom.
Strictly speaking, my land ends at the high-water mark.
It was also a high-water mark for Mr Batista.
They pile up in banks, as solid as sand along the high-water mark.
This marked the high-water mark of railroading in Lancaster County.
You can almost see the high-water mark.
Data reaching the high-water mark in the FIFO asserts ABRTPREX.
We had this little wooden bungalow, literally below the high-water mark.
This would be the high-water mark for the Braves franchise in Buffalo.
This last event, in particular, seemed to serve as the high-water mark of her crazy.
This represented the high-water mark for Canadian involvement and leadership in the Americas.
And 80 of those cities could be below the high-water mark in the next decade.

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