in-a-sentence.com, use height in a sentence

Use height in a sentence

Sentences ending with height

It is in winter the only mode Leukerbad has of communicating with the world; and in summer it is the only way of reaching Albinen, except by a long journey down the Dala and up another valley and height. [4]
Suppose she should use the garland as a rope and venture to leap over it on this giddy height? [10]
I was about to say, when diverted from my subject, that occasionally one finds sage-bushes five or six feet high, and with a spread of branch and foliage in proportion, but two or two and a half feet is the usual height. [5]
Sometimes it seemed to issue from the bowels of the earth, and at others to float from some airy height. [10]
And he had to confess also that a view from a mountain is never so satisfactory as a view of a mountain, from a moderate height. [4]
Two or three times during the afternoon we saw wonderfully dense and beautiful forests, tumultuously piled skyward on the broken highlands--not the customary roof-like slant of a hillside, where the trees are all the same height. [5]
It was as though she looked down on him from a height. [11]
From all sides they offered me what I required; but I gave the preference to Theocritus, on account of his height. [10]
Then they avoided these two singular dwellers on the height. [11]
Will you take the trouble to ask your tailor how many persons have their two shoulders of the same height? [6]

Short sentences using height

You are about my height. [11]
His height was insignificant. [9]

Sentences containing height two or more times

At six-twenty we had attained a height of twelve thousand eight hundred feet, and halted for half an hour; we then continued the ascent without a break until nine-fifty-five, when we stopped for fifty minutes, at a height of fourteen thousand feet. [5]

More example sentences with the word height in them

At last, two young men of good height and bone threw arrows at his bare breast. [11]
Still, I ask you, do you think there is a reason why from her height she should stoop down to rescue you or give you any joy? [11]
And yet, and yet!--Where shall I find resolution enough to ask of her who excites me to the height of passion no more than a kind glance, a clasp of the hand, an intelligent interest in what I say? [10]
I vow you would be a sensation, with your height and figure. [9]
Andreas followed her, with the leech, a man of middle height, whose shrewd and well-formed head, bald but for a little hair at the sides, was set on a somewhat ungainly body. [10]
Followed through one winding alley and then another,--and climbing, always climbing--till at last we gained the breezy height where the huge castle stood. [5]
Venters approached the willow and cottonwood belt that he had observed from the height of slope. [13]
I think he will tell you that the majority of his customers show a distinct difference of height on the two sides. [6]
Ambition and love will also sustain her like two mighty wings on the proud height to which they have borne her, so long as they dwell harmoniously in her fiery soul. [10]
Built on a wide lot, with a garage on one side to the rear, with a cement driveway divided into squares, and a wall of democratic height separating its lawn from the sidewalk, the house may for the present be better imagined than described. [9]
In a little while this plain lady was not plain any more, but most gorgeously dressed, and possessed with the desire to be in the height of the fashion. [4]
It means, generally, weight and height, an advantage in a scrimmage. [11]
Before twelve o'clock we had found a good position for the tent, at a height of eleven thousand feet. [5]
They point the way; and when we emerge from the wood, St. Maria a Castello is before us on a height, its white and red church shining in the sun. [4]
Just as a wave poises at its height before breaking upon the shore, it hung at every pulse-beat, and then seemed to fall over with a sickening thud. [11]
This breezy height was the summit proper--so I accomplished even more than I had originally purposed to do. [5]
The sedan chair was set down, and it was just at the place where the road at her left, leading to the citadel, climbed the height where rose the proud Trausnitz fortress. [10]
Now her self-sacrifice was richly rewarded, and it would make her happier than himself if she should learn that his own merit had led him to the height of fame which she prayed that he might reach. [10]
Young Mr. Worthington was from Boston--no less; slim, pale, medium height, but with an alert look, and a high-bridged nose. [9]
Among their number was Archias, Daphne's father, a man of middle height and comfortable portliness, from whose well-formed, beardless face looked forth a pair of shrewd eyes, and whose quick movements revealed the slight irritability of his temperament. [10]
It was the wall-like butt end of a huge glacier, which looked down on us from an Alpine height which was well up in the blue sky. [5]
He is a villain but he knows the height from which he fell. [11]
He was a very handsome young man, of medium height, with firm, clearcut features. [2]
His great height, vast proportions, and silent ways gave him a place apart, and added to the superstitious feeling by which he was surrounded. [11]
Then, drawing herself up to her full height, she exclaimed, "Well, then, to work! [10]
I spoke promptly up and said: "It's no trouble to guess this noble creature's figures height, three feet; length, four feet and three-quarters of an inch; weight, a hundred and forty-eight and a quarter. [5]
Two brothers of unusual height, who, nude like all their comrades in death, offered their broad, beautifully arched chests to the arrows, would not leave his memory. [10]
At last they turn, and far Moriah's height Melts in the southern sky and fades from sight. [6]
The noble Norman tower, one hundred and thirty-two feet in height, was once surmounted by a spire, which fell during divine service on Easter Day of the year 1559. [6]
In the foreground, toward the left, rose the wooded height crowned by the stately ruins of the Blankenburg. [10]
It seems somewhat too broad for its height, but may be familiarity with it might dissipate this impression. [5]
Gregory has since told me that, as he travelled with Jacques Pontiac across the Height of Land to his destination, he had uncomfortable feelings; presentiments, peculiar reflections of the past, and melancholy --a thing far from habitual with him. [11]
When you return to your homes, rise up to the height of a generation of men worthy of a free government, and we will carry out the great work we have commenced. [7]
She ascribed it to the novelty of her elevation to a height of which she had never dreamed. [10]
The columns rose to a gigantic height, the eye seemed to wander through immeasurable space, and the air breathed by the worshippers was heavy with the fragrance of Kyphi and incense, and the odors which arose from the laboratory attached to the temple. [10]
It was as though she was looking down from a great height upon a poor creature who did not know the first rudiments of personal honour, the fine elemental customs of life. [11]
Bennigsen loudly criticized this mistake, saying that it was madness to leave a height which commanded the country around unoccupied and to place troops below it. [2]
He was a thin, rather handsome, dissolute-looking fellow of middle height and about forty, in dandified dress. [11]
He was a thick-set man of middle height, with a large head, and clever but coarse features, as rudely moulded as if they had been carved from wood. [10]
The attacking party then retreated to a height of ground, to muster their men, and to count the number of missing and slain. [5]
The height of the season was over, she said; there had been tableaux and charades, and broom-drills, and readings and charity concerts. [4]
To a stranger the season might have seemed at its height. [11]
As Stephen trod the rough flags between the high grass which led toward the house, Colonel Carvel rose to his full height and greeted him. [9]
An opening in the pinyons warned him that he was nearing the height of slope. [13]
They vanished in the night, and Nic with them; but he returned the next afternoon when the fire of excitement was at its height. [11]
The tendency of the new generation is towards unusual height and gracious slimness. [4]
The shipper in the little ship It effects with woe sad might; He does not see the rocky slip, He only regards dreaded height. [5]
In spite of the height of the topmost window of the steeple where she stood, her keen eyes showed her that Maximilian's seat was still vacant. [10]
It was indeed the height of summer. [4]
It was in the height of summer, when there was little to think of in the old fortressed city, and a dart after a brigand appealed to the romantic natures of the idle French folk, common and gentle. [11]
This portion of the Height of Land is a lonely country. [11]
The workmen on the height joined in the conversation. [4]
I was of the greater height and stouter build, while she was more slender and supple; and for gentle sweetness I have never seen her like. [10]
It lies at the foot of a range of hills, the loftiest of which is over a thousand feet in height. [6]
At their feet the fields and meadows, at a greater height rise pine forests, which, like the huntsman, wear green robes at all seasons of the year. [10]
She was at that height of bliss when one becomes completely kind and good and does not believe in the possibility of evil, unhappiness, or sorrow. [2]
Albeit, up on that height meseemed a keen wind was blowing, which she did battle with so hardly that through many a still night I could hear her sighs. [10]
I began to tell this story, and instead of the description of Mr. Boone's man, I put in that of Mr. Potts,--in height some five feet nine, spare, of sallow complexion and a green greatcoat. [9]
He used to tell his son Edward that he measured six feet in his shoes, but his son thinks he could hardly have straightened himself to that height in his later years. [6]
My father had succeeded in presenting my ambition as the height of absurdity and presumption, and with something of the despair of a shipwrecked mariner my eyes rested on the green expanses of those book-backs, Bohn's Standard Library! [9]
Surely the long straight rows of stately poplars that divide the beautiful landscape like the squares of a checker-board are set with line and plummet, and their uniform height determined with a spirit level. [5]
Yet there he stood before the eyes of her soul in all his stately height, surrounded by radiance, and with a solemn gesture he laid his hand on the stones he had piled up. [10]
Near the chief stood a man seven feet in height, a kind of bodyguard, who presently said something in his ear. [11]
It has been stated that Mark Twain loved the lecture platform, but from his letters we see that even at this early date, when he was at the height of his first great vogue as a public entertainer, he had no love for platform life. [5]
I wish to state, also, not as a correction, but as matter of opinion, that Mount Hermon is not a striking or picturesque mountain by any means, being too near the height of its immediate neighbors to be so. [5]
The sun would soon reach its meridian height, and there he lay asleep. [10]
For she would soon fade, the dust would soon gather over her perished youth and beauty; but his success would live on, ever freshening in his sight, rising through long years to a great height, and remaining fixed and exalted. [11]
There was indeed something uncanny about this night-walking, for even now it seemed incomprehensible how she had reached the beam, which was at least the height of three men above the floor. [10]
There was a softness in the distant outline, villas peeped out here and there, carriages were passing in the road below, there was a cheerful life in the stream--there was a harmony in the aspect of nature and humanity from this height. [4]
The period of social and political ferment during which "Alcuin" was put forth was not unlike that which may be said to have reached its height in extravagance and millennial expectation in 1847-48. [4]
I have grown so in height that I knew an old uniform of my brothers would fit me, and I had it ready--small sword and all," she added, with a sad sort of humour, touching the weapon at her side. [11]
They travelled back slowly to the Height of Land, making a circuit. [11]
They felt themselves slipping down from the moral height which they had gained, and March made a clutch to stay himself with the question, "And Lindau? [8]
Its height and size would represent two of the Washington capitol set one on top of the other--if the capitol were wider; or two blocks or two blocks and a half of ordinary buildings set one on top of the other. [5]
Thus, by a singular caprice of destiny Honors was deprived of both her parents at a period which--some chose to believe--was the height of their combined glories. [9]
Or if Heaven should grant me a son, his father will raise him to a still greater height, and I have already seen him before me a hundred times as he hangs the Fleece on the red ribbon round his neck. [10]
The old woman shook her head, a curious half-mystic light in her eyes, her body drawn up to its full height, as though waiting for something. [11]
Then, as now, she was not above middle height, but her form possessed the most exquisite symmetry, only it was still more delicate and pliant. [10]
In the convent she could remember the happiness which had once raised her to its loftiest height. [10]
The old man seemed to measure her height in a glance which struck to her heart with its fierce enmity, and then he said deliberately: "On the morning of the nuns' flight the accused, Paula, went to the convent and there tolled the bell. [10]
The son's pity seemed to look down from a great height upon the contemptible figure with the beautiful white hair and the abominable mouth. [11]
As he now saw nothing which was happening upon the rope, he had probably also failed to heed what she had performed, dared, accomplished, mainly for his sake, at the peril of her life, on the dizzy height. [10]
Of nearly the same height, with these disguises he might be able to pass for his captor. [11]
One day he said-- 'What is the height of that bank yonder, at Burgess's? [5]
By midnight the revelry was at its height. [5]
We reached the restaurant on the height called the Chapeau at four in the afternoon. [5]
But before he reached them Pierre stopped beside a very handsome, dark man of middle height, and in a white uniform, who stood by a window talking to a tall man wearing stars and a ribbon. [2]
And her impatience reached its height when, before she could leave, some of the imperial troopers stabled their horses at the carrier's and reported that Castle Siebenburg and the robber stronghold of the Absbachs were destroyed. [10]
When he had reached half the height of the hill, he perceived the sound of footsteps coming nearer and nearer to him. [10]
We can, never reach that height of nonchalance in this country. [8]
While chasing the rabbit this slope had appeared interminable to him; now, burdened as he was, he did not think of length or height or toil. [13]
One of the peaks was named for the senator (the one next in height to Mitchell is described as Clingman on the state map), and a dispute arose as to whether Mitchell had really visited and measured the highest peak. [4]
Venters then descended, passing through the arch, looking up at its tremendous height and sweep. [13]
While the fettered pair were ascending the cliff backward, Joshua heard his name shouted in joyous accents, and directly after Ephraim, with a band of youthful warriors, came rushing down the height toward him. [10]
The man was over six feet in height, the shoulders were square, the chest deep, the hips and legs modeled for strength, and with no superfluous flesh. [4]
They passed from our sight uninjured, disappeared one by one, and fell from the precipice to precipice onto the Matterhorn glacier below, a distance of nearly four thousand feet in height. [5]
The spina was originally constructed of wood, subsequently it was of stone, and its height was generally about 29 feet. [10]
But with an opponent who would not be led into ambush, who had the strength to hold his fire under provocation, it was no easy matter to maintain a height of conscious, matter-of-fact rectitude and implied reproof. [9]
He reported that only two thousand copies had been sold in what was now the height of the campaign. [5]
His figure was only slightly above middle height. [10]

This page helps answer: how do I use the word height in a sentence? How do you use height in a sentence? Can you give me a sentence for the word height? It contains example sentences with the word height, a sentence example for height, and height in sample sentence.