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high-water mark

NOUN
  1. a line marking the highest level reached

How To Use high-water mark In A Sentence

  • The soils are developed on marine or estuarine alluvium found between the normal high-water mark and the limit of highest spring tides.
  • Two hundred and twenty-four families in the ward live below the sidewalk, many of them _below high-water mark_. American Woman's Home
  • In these passages not only is the thought singularly pure and noble, and the expression felicitous, but the actual metre represents almost the high-water mark of the post-Vergilian hexameter. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
  • We now have a more reasonable definition of what the high-water mark is, and what the marine area is on the landward side.
  • This was the high-water mark of political engagement. The Times Literary Supplement
  • We pulled the boat up the beach above the high-water mark.
  • The atoll of Hikueru lay low on the water, a circle of pounded coral sand a hundred yards wide, twenty miles in circumference, and from three to five feet above high-water mark. THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI
  • It was the high-water mark of his ministry. Christianity Today
  • The music industry has had its high-water mark. Times, Sunday Times
  • Michele Bachmann was able to reach her high-water mark without being unduly encumbered by her gender; nor was she advantageously buoyed by it. Michele Bachmann and the glass ceiling of American politics | Cheri Jacobus
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