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• He should see a highland landscape at the coast of Erlin.2015, Weichung Cheng, “Sailing from the China Coast to the Pescadores and Taiwan: A Comparative Study on the Resemblances in Chinese and…. From the entry Baiquan
• Venus shows clear signs of past tectonic activity in the highland regions.2003, David Leverington, “The Space Age – Terrestrial Planets”, in Babylon to Voyager and Beyond: A History of Planetary Astronomy…. From the entry chasma
• In the highlands of western Hupeh, the paddy fields are concentrated in low and gentle valleys.1960, Economic Geography of Central China: (Hupeh, Hunan, Kiangsi), Communist China; Translation, →OCLC, page 72. From the entry Hsuan-en
• Highland had fallen into the habit of casually bedearing Mary when there were people about.1922, Hearst's international. From the entry bedear
• Other precious wild highland species include foxes and tarukas (Andean deer), the mysterious Andean cat and the titi monkey.2010, Anja Mutic, Kate Armstrong, Paul Smith, Bolivia, Lonely Planet, page 50. From the entry Andean cat
• The dichotomy between maria and highlands dominates lunar mineralogy.2003, Thérèse Encrenaz et al., “The Solar System”, in Storm Dunlop, transl., Système Solaire, page 232. From the entry dichotomy
• The Transjordanian highlands north of Bilad al-Sharat—the Balqa and the Sawad—remained part of the Burid atabegate of Damascus.1998, Kamal S. Salibi, The Modern History of Jordan, page 23. From the entry atabegate
• What caused the transitions from explosive to effusive volcanism in the Circum-Hellas Volcanic Province generally and during the eruptive lifetimes of individual highland patera volcanoes?2020, James R. Zimbelman, David A. Crown, Peter J. Mouginis-Mark, Tracy K. P. Gregg, The Volcanoes of Mars, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 116. From the entry patera
• The Lisu of the northern Thai highlands feared witchcraft acutely but relied on service magicians or private counter-magic to keep them at bay.2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press, published 2018, page 25. From the entry counter-magic
• Compared to other Bolivian ecoregions, the Prepuna and Puna in the Bolivian highlands are distinguished by low precipitation and low biological diversity.2015, Robert Perger, Fernando Guerra, “The first longhorned beetle record for the Prepuna in the Bolivian Andes and Potosi Department in…. From the entry prepuna
• In Scottish regiments the Glengarry bonnet was worn by all, while the highland regiments still maintained the kilt as a suitable netherwear for active service.2003, Mike Chappell, The British Army in World War I. From the entry netherwear
• One day Connie Mayers is at point doing 'recky' while the squad is going over the central highlands, but somehow he has misplotted the course.1992, Maurice Paterson, Big Sky/little Bullet: A Docu-novel, page 17. From the entry misplot
• Jih-k’a-tse, Tibet’s second largest city, is located on the Brahmaputra southwest of Lhasa, in Tibet’s major grain-producing area, with highland barley as the major grain.1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, “Tibet”, in Christopher L. Salter, editor, Atlas of China, McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 198. From the entry Brahmaputra
• There were conjurers and singers and highland dancers wearing breastsful of medals, funny stories and recitations by blushing boys, and finally the choir again.1947, J. F. Hendry, Fernie Brae: A Scottish Childhood, Polygon Books, published 1987, →ISBN, page 21. From the entry breastful
• Underneath a ridge in the southern highlands of Guinea, a west African country of 14m people, lies one of the world’s biggest deposits of iron ore.2025 December 7, “A giant iron-ore mine could bring Guinea riches or ruin. It all depends on how the country's junta uses the windfall”…. From the entry Simandou
• It may simply be noted that the region comprises highlands that are bounded on the east by the precipitous escarpment bordering the Danakil lowlands and the Red Sea.2012, David W. Phillipson, Foundations of an African Civilisation. Aksum & the northern Horn, 1000 BC–AD 1300, Woodbridge, Suffolk: James…. From the entry escarpment
• The NHLR lies within the Northern Highlands region—a relict orogenous zone that has been glacially eroded to form a highland plateau region spanning from Michigan to Minnesota.2008, Gregory S. Babonis, “et al.”, in Using Multi-frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar to Develop Regional-Scale Groundwater Maps…. From the entry orogenous zone
• In the rural plateaux of highland Ethiopia the present-day traveller can still find scattered standing ruins of monumental buildings which are evidently alien to the country's ancient architectural tradition.2004, Manuel João Ramos, Isabel Boavida, editors, The Indigenous and the Foreign in Christian Ethiopian Art: on Portuguese–Ethiopian…. From the entry plateaux
• In the highlands of Guatemala there is a dirt and stone road that runs from the pueblo of San Martin Jilotepeque to the village of Candelaria.1996, Mary Richardson Miller, The Women of Candelaria, San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks, page 9. From the entry Candelaria
• At his command, a team of authentically be-kilted wordsters has combed the highlands and islands of Scotland to bring you this, our tribute to a very special country.1990, Punch: Or The London Charivari, volume 299, London: Punch, →OCLC, page 14. From the entry wordster
• It forms in a thin, brittle gray crust over the land around the edges of the highland lakes in central Mexico, particularly around Texcoco and the salt meadows of Puebla.2013, Diana Kennedy, My Mexico: A Culinary Odyssey with Recipes, page 213. From the entry tequesquite
• It was concentrated in two areas—north-central Mexico around Zacatecas and Guanajuato, and the highlands of Upper Peru (modern Bolivia)—though there were significant secondary areas in Honduras and the Peruvian Andes.1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin history of Latin America, London; New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 127. From the entry Upper Peru

Meaning of highland

1. noun A high area; land that is higher than surrounding areas.

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Questions about highland in a sentence

How do you use highland in a sentence?

Highland is used as a noun. For example: “The highlands of the Swiss Alps are home to many unique flowers.”

What is a short sentence with highland?

“The dichotomy between maria and highlands dominates lunar mineralogy.”

What does highland mean?

Highland means a high area; land that is higher than surrounding areas.