How to Use high drama in a Sentence

high drama

noun
  • To return to the fold had been high drama.
    — Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • And the show is also quite high drama.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 7 June 2026
  • The lefty-on-lefty matchup had become high drama.
    — Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Count on high style, high drama, and more than a few feats of movie magic next fall.
    — Vogue, 26 Mar. 2025
  • This isn’t about explosions or high drama on page one.
    — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2026
  • But these incidents are not played for high drama.
    — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
  • All high drama requires a setting.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
  • It’s been 17 weeks of high drama, highlights and hijinks.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Here’s a look at five properties that prove lower heights can indeed reach high drama.
    — Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
  • What all of them have in common — besides high drama, of course — are the must-see bridal ensembles.
    — Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 27 June 2026
  • The 2026 finals featured two four-point wins, two one-point wins and high drama.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 16 June 2026
  • All in all, a low-key way to pass the day, a gentle frame for the eventual injections of high drama.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 20 July 2023
  • But while that's high drama, the stunning look of the cast kitted out in period garb is just as striking.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Upstairs, the rooms are sexy and high drama, with blue-gray walls, red velvet bed frames, and an eclectic mix of antiques.
    — AFAR Media, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Fast-paced and well-acted, the show is brutal, fascinating and full of high drama.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Hardly the high drama that makes for good television, but that’s OK.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Cannes has long stood as one of the most iconic fashion stages in the world, a place where film and couture intertwine in high drama.
    — Karissa Mitchell, Essence, 23 May 2025
  • There was high drama when a dog in Wisconsin spotted a nearby squirrel and gave chase.
    — Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The knockout round of 32 has been thrilling so far, and the high drama comes to Atlanta today.
    — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 1 July 2026
  • But when a scene of high drama — a love nest slaying — came straight to his doorstep, there were no special lighting and no camera in his hands.
    — Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 28 July 2024
  • Disneyland is a place where emotions are heightened, a world of fantasy tales and high drama.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • But there was no real high drama or high comedy in those final 20 minutes.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Jay calling out the Grammys, right there on the Grammy stage, was a moment of high drama.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2024
  • This resurgence of the cape, and its modern takes, result in a trend that teeters between modesty, glamour, and high drama.
    — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Interview had a sense of humor about its high drama, but this season sometimes plays like a full-on comedy.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 2 June 2026
  • That sets the scene for some high drama, landscape-wise, with steep mountains cloaked with dense forests and deep blue waters ringed by charming lakeside towns.
    — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 18 June 2024
  • Nicole Holofcener makes films that are about the high drama and inherent comedy in everyday life.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2024
  • Starting pitchers are now rarely involved in situations of high drama.
    — Bruce Schoenfeld Robert Fass Tanya Pérez Brian St. Pierre, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The first order of business in the House will be to elect its speaker -- a process that has created high drama in recent years.
    — Lauren Peller, ABC News, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Game 3 of the World Series was a stone-cold thriller, with peaks of high drama and longueurs of exquisitely tense tedium.
    — Steve Rushin, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2025

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