HEIGHT in a Sentence

Learn HEIGHT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
244 example sentences for HEIGHT, such as:
1. Please state your height and weight.
2. She is the same height as her sister.
3. The weight is too much for my height.
4. You can adjust the height of the chair.
5. Let us guess at the height of the building.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of HEIGHT
height
 n.  (of a standing person) the distance from head to foot
 n.  the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
Classic Sentence: (203 in 14 pages)
1  She was a tall woman, standing a head higher than her fiery little husband, but she moved with such quiet grace in her swaying hoops that the height attracted no attention to itself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  It was like Gerald that he never wasted regrets on his lack of height and never found it an obstacle to his acquisition of anything he wanted.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  She was glad she had inherited Ellen's slender white hands and tiny feet, and she wished she had Ellen's height, too, but her own height pleased her very well.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  The barbecue was over and all were content to take their ease while sun was at its height.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  He spent money freely, rode a wild black stallion, and wore clothes which were always the height of style and tailoring.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  She thought without surprise, looking down from her height, that her shoulders were strong enough to bear anything now, having borne the worst that could ever happen to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  Spring plowing was at its height and the cotton and garden seed Pork had brought from Macon was being put into the ground.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
8  That, thought Scarlett, was the height of absurdity, for there was little, now, which even the most cloistered women had not seen and known in the last five years.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
9  To Scarlett, scarcely wanting her coming child and irritated at its untimeliness, this attitude seemed the height of sentimental stupidity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
10  The Lost Cause was stronger, dearer now in their hearts than it had ever been at the height of its glory.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
11  Never before or after did the names Republican and Scallawag carry such odium, for now the corruption of the Carpet bag regime was at its height.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
12  He began with a bar two inches from the ground and gradually worked up the height to a foot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
13  Mrs. Trenor was a tall fair woman, whose height just saved her from redundancy.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
14  They stood silent for a while after this, smiling at each other like adventurous children who have climbed to a forbidden height from which they discover a new world.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
15  She could not put him before herself in any light but the noblest: she must trust him to the height of her own passion.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  The city is a height of three hundred feet above sea level.
2  The students were regrouped according to height and weight.
3  The teacher paired off his students by age and height.
4  When you really love someone, age, distance, height and weight are just numbers.
5  The weight is too much for my height.
6  Please state your height and weight.
7  You can adjust the height of the chair.
8  Each corner had a guard tower, each of which was exactly ten meters in height.
9  We may determine the height of a mountain by trigonometry.
10  The most striking feature of the house was a huge two-storey room running the entire breadth and height of the building.
11  Let us guess at the height of the building.
12  She is the same height as her sister.
13  He drew himself up to his full height and glared at us.
14  The needles that indicate your height are at the top right-hand corner.
15  It was the height of summer and the land was parched and brown.