How to Use high relief in a Sentence

high relief

noun
  • This canard has returned in high relief.
    — Avi Weiss, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2025
  • The cities’ differences were in high relief at high school graduation.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The family members sitting in a line on stage put the importance of story in high relief.
    — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 15 Nov. 2025
  • One stele, the work of an unrecorded sculptor, shows a group of four carved in high relief, presumably a family.
    — Teju Cole, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Above, rays of light radiate in high relief and sunburst guilloche is visible beneath the vivid hot enamel.
    — Nancy Olson, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • Encircling the crown are three high relief silver stars, representing the three branches of government.
    — Nancy Olson, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • Which brought our collective hurtle toward catastrophe into high relief.
    — Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2022
  • But, in one of the most striking photographs, three fleeing figures—two women and a man, in high relief against a gray background—do occupy the central space.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The most imposing sculpture is a 17th-century metal plaque showing the figure of a royal courtier in high relief.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2021
  • To show their differences in high relief, but also to show unexpected similarities.
    — Lauren Schuker Blum, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • These circumstances are cast in high relief when a single event — like Ida or Henri or a summer downpour — reveals just how fragile a system really is.
    — Diana Budds, Curbed, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The memorial became the largest high relief sculpture in the world, depicting Davis, Lee and Jackson on horseback, their figures stretched across three acres.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2017
  • The optics of having an award expected to be used as a celebration of a life of a Black actor suddenly won by a white one stand out in high relief, but beyond that, the pacing of the whole thing was deeply abrupt.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk and Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Juxtaposed with Athey, an extremist of an effectively harmless sort, narratives of bloody martyrdom as the path to salvation are thrown into high relief.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2021
  • Misty’s willingness to cross boundaries, not just to menace but to endanger, puts into high relief the grief of Natalie, another outsider, who is also unstable.
    — The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Fara places their predicament during four harrowing years of national upheaval in high relief, showcasing society’s shocking ambivalence toward their patriotic efforts.
    — Elaine Weiss, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019
  • The pieces in her Black Cameo Collection, Simpson’s jewelry line of silhouetted figures, cut in high relief, could be seen on the most famous glamorous women, Black and white alike.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2025
  • There have been dozens of train wrecks that might have been avoided were positive train control in place, but the Amtrak crashes in Washington state and Philadelphia stand in high relief because of the fatalities and mass injuries.
    — Ashley Halsey Iii, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2018
  • The contemporary design and engineering of the movement come alive when positioned in high relief against the Razzle Dazzle pattern, breaking up the monochrome look of previous Freak X models.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 5 May 2021
  • The designer clothing website Matches now offers a garden’s worth of veggie earthenware from the 139-year-old Portuguese ceramics manufactory Bordallo Pinheiro, including plates that look like ragwort leaves, each affixed with a high relief ladybug.
    — Alexa Brazilian Mari Maeda and Yuji Oboshi, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2023

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