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Example sentences for "high enough"

  • The rent may be high enough too, and the farmer may afford to pay them both; for a very large part of what you call poor-rates ought to be called wages.

  • Instead of making a special job of cleaning at intervals, one or two cups of salt may be thrown on the fire once a day with the expectation that the furnace will produce a high enough temperature to ignite some of the soot.

  • When the chimney is not located on the ridge but on a sloping roof, a cricket, j, is built, as detailed in figure 16, high enough to shed water around the chimney.

  • He knew how to bark a tree quite well, having helped the woodmen when the oaks were thrown, and he could have carried the short ladder out and so cut it high enough up the trunk (while the tree stood).

  • But with very high frequency impulses there is no necessity for such breaking down, since any amount of work can be performed by continually agitating the atoms in the exhausted vessel, provided the frequency is high enough.

  • The lower division continues into the hill on a level; the upper rises at a slight angle; neither is high enough to permit a man to stand erect.

  • Neither tools nor men could be found to do any trenching, but it is not probable the shelter was ever high enough for a man to stand erect in, because most, or all, of the floor earth must have come from the ceiling.

  • A narrow passage, high enough for a man to walk in, branches off to the right but soon begins to diminish in size and at 100 feet becomes too small to crawl through.

  • Nor was he high enough in the ethical scale to know appreciation for the fact that it was the very man he had been reviling who was the first to go to his aid when he was hurt.

  • His mind-probing had convinced him they were high enough in the scale of evolution to know the meaning of gratitude, and he could tell they were repaying his kindness with co-operation.

  • There are natives there that are high enough in the cultural scale so the planet cannot be colonized, but they must be freed from the slavery under which they are now held.

  • But the fact is, I don't suppose you could go high enough.

  • Her hands may be full, you know, or she may think you don't go high enough.

  • Because you didn't go high enough, you know.

  • Into these apparatuses the potatoes and corn or grain first ground into mash, or even corn or grain unground, if the pressure is high enough, are disintegrated and cooked by steam under high pressure.

  • Alcohol has a tendency to simply heat the surrounding vapors and produce currents of hot gases which are not usually brought to high enough temperature to inflame articles at a distance.

  • The tide was rising but Dickory was too impatient to sit still and wait until it should be high enough to float the boat.

  • And when she was drawn up high enough to help herself, he pulled her in, still warily and slowly.

  • I guess your head ain't high enough up for to see her'n," said Clam, in scornful impatience.

  • She's got her mind up high enough, anyway, for all she's gone through.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "high enough" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    high enough; high esteem; high fever; high grass; high hand; high lands; high levels; high life; high place; high range; high repute; high road; high state; high tower; high tree; high vacuum; higher animals; higher levels; higher mathematics; higher place; higher plane; higher stage; highly developed; highly prized; highly respectable; rusty black