high up

Speech parts

1. high up - Noun

2. high up - Adjective

3. high up - Adverb

4. high up - Phrase

Meaning

an important or influential (and often overbearing) person

at a great altitude

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high-up

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Examples

In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken. Ernest Hemingway

That's what it's like when people have crawled very high up in a tree, then they sometimes need help to get down with ladders and ropes and other instruments. Anders Fogh Rasmussen

The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage. John Steinbeck

So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea. Virginia Woolf

Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather terrified, but Julie was very kind, encouraging me and we got through that together. Chiaki Kuriyama

The lizard that lives high up in iroko tree does not hear the lions roar. Botswana Proverb

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