How to Use high road in a Sentence

high road

noun
  • Stay on the high road to achieve your long-term career goals.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Well, these kids took the high road standing up for what’s right.
    — Don Sweeney, sacbee, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Steering the car to the high road in no way means scars do not remain.
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The moral high road is as much an asset in this fight as any weapon system.
    — Mac William Bishop, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2022
  • But for the sake of her newborn niece, Kim vowed to take the high road.
    — Aurelie Corinthios, PEOPLE.com, 8 May 2018
  • Women are not required to take the high road when things like this are done to them.
    — Jaya Saxena, GQ, 11 Jan. 2018
  • To many Democrats, impeachment looks like the moral high road.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The team was upstairs and took the high road, never confronting them.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Choose the high road and that green-eyed monster will soon disappear.
    — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The story of falling on the sword and always taking the high road.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 27 May 2021
  • The courage and intelligence to know what to stand up for, when to fight and when to take the high road.
    — Lz Granderson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2020
  • The State of the Union is always a good venue for taking the high road.
    — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2019
  • Since then, a bevy of new tools for taking the high road has flooded the marketplace.
    — Monica Corcoran Harel, Marie Claire, 31 Mar. 2017
  • What was the minimum to ensure Sean stayed on the high road the next time around?
    — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 16 July 2017
  • The moral high road In an uncertain world with no clear answers, anger can be a north star.
    — Allie Volpe, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Hikers at one spot can take the high road by crawling through a hole in the rock or the low road on a trail just below.
    — Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Khloe is visibly frustrated at the news, telling her sister to take the high road.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 26 May 2022
  • Judge took the high road when asked about the situation on Monday.
    — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2021
  • The Lions would be smart to take the high road and find a way to make things right with Johnson.
    — Jamie Samuelsen, Detroit Free Press, 5 June 2019
  • Take the high road to keep all the unnecessary drama behind you.
    — Lindsay Schallon, Seventeen, 1 July 2015
  • And Democrats should take the high road rather than use the Niger tragedy for political gain.
    — The Tylt, cleveland.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • The only thing Hunter can do is take the high road when the queens offer him a chance to let the other men have it.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 13 July 2021
  • Most talk it up, like taking the high road, shooting for the stars or dwarfing the competition.
    — Grant Segall, cleveland, 3 Jan. 2020
  • On her Instagram Story, Natasha seemed to take the high road.
    — Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The Buffaloes take the high road, will let Nebraska do the talking.
    — oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Cardinals running back James Conner took the high road about the mishap.
    — Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Cardinals running back James Conner took the high road about the mishap.
    — Dana Scott, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Caserio took the high road when asked about his emotions about not being allowed to meet with the Texans.
    — Houston Chronicle, 27 July 2019
  • Despite their breakup, both Selling Sunset stars seem to be taking the high road.
    — Lanae Brody, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2022
  • In response to questions about its view of Goldfish, Annie’s took the high road.
    — Danny Hakim, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2018

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