high point

noun

: the best time or stage of something

Our trip to the museum was the high point of our vacation.

the high point of her career

Examples of High Point in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web This workshop is a high point of the experience for many festival-goers who find release from writing their feelings into a song. —

Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2024 The high point was 1990, when the A’s averaged 35,805 per game, drew 2,900,217 fans and trailed only Toronto (3,995,294) and the L.A. Dodgers (3,002,396). —

Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024 At the time, women’s basketball was at a high point. —

Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 5 Apr. 2024 The momentum would’ve been there regardless of how the road trip began — the team has been playing pretty good basketball for the last month, but the win against the Bucks in Milwaukee felt like a high point for the team this season. —

Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024 The memorial, which sits at a high point of downtown Montgomery, towers over the rest of the city, making the state capitol look like a toy in comparison. —

Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024 When Aretha Franklin performed in a mink coat at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. in 2015, her dropping of the garment on the stage floor was a high point of the evening. —

Shelcy Joseph, Essence, 19 Mar. 2024 The series, based on stories by Edgar Allen Poe, reached its creative high point with this proto-psychedelic fairy tale, whose bright colors and delirious mood predicted a groovy art movement that was then just around the corner. —

Katie Rife, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2024 Oddly enough, the introduction of McGregor’s unstoppable terminator and genuine agent of chaos — who gets both a first-rate introduction scene and the film’s requisite naked-ass shot — gives this remake its giddy high point and signals the beginning of the end. —

David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2024

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