Highlands is an English word with synonyms like highland or upland. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Highlands in a sentence
Related words
Highlands meaning
- The mountainous northern area of Scotland.
- A town in Orange County, New York, United States.
- A borough of Monmouth, New Jersey, United States.
Using Highlands
- The main meaning on this page is: The mountainous northern area of Scotland. | A town in Orange County, New York, United States. | A borough of Monmouth, New Jersey, United States.
- Useful related words include: highlands of scotland, highland, upland.
- In the example corpus, highlands often appears in combinations such as: the highlands, highlands and, scottish highlands.
Context around Highlands
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 11 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Highlands
- In this selection, "highlands" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, scottish, stagecoach, georgia, great, golf and luke stand out and add context to how "highlands" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include of the highlands and across the highlands and islands. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "highlands" sits close to words such as aides, assumptions and berry, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with highlands
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Central highlands Village in the central highlands. (7 words)
Ryan Reesor grew up in the Haliburton Highlands with his family at Ox Narrows Lodge in Algonquin Highlands. (18 words)
The longest road in the country is the Highlands Highway which links Lae and Madang to the Highlands region. (19 words)
Ahead of its release on the Nintendo Switch console on December 5, the game’s creative director Joe Humfrey revealed that the game is “unlike anything” that inkle has made before and was inspired by his own adventures in the Highlands as a youth. (44 words)
Johnson County's Dagen Brewer, left, waits for a throw to put out Georgia Highlands' Luke Orfi, right, in the first inning of Georgia Highlands' win in the Alpine Bank Junior College World Series on Monday at Suplizio Field. (39 words)
Highlands rise in four spots on the island, as well as on Sangeang Island, the large western lobe of Sumbawa is dominated by a large central highland, there is Mt. Tambora, Dompu and Bima each have more minor highlands. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
One of the Highlands' great sporting rivalries continued on Saturday with Highlands Golf Club hosting Moss Vale Golf Club for the Whyte Cup.
Ryan Reesor grew up in the Haliburton Highlands with his family at Ox Narrows Lodge in Algonquin Highlands.
A spokesperson for Stagecoach Highlands said: "We have been informed by Unite that members in Stagecoach Highlands have voted to undertake industrial action.
It's important to note that delivery excludes selected postcodes in the Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Scottish Highlands and Islands, Northern Ireland, Scottish Highlands and Channel Islands (excluding the Isle of Man).
Johnson County's Dagen Brewer, left, waits for a throw to put out Georgia Highlands' Luke Orfi, right, in the first inning of Georgia Highlands' win in the Alpine Bank Junior College World Series on Monday at Suplizio Field.
The alert affects the Grampian - Aberdeen Aberdeenshire and Moray - as well as the Highlands & Eilean from Siar and Eilean to Siar, as well as the Highlands from the Orkney Islands and the Shetland Islands, the forecasters say.
Peoble said she gained valuable insight serving on both the Highlands Strategic Enrollment Management Committee and the Highlands Campus Budget and Planning Committee.
The next installment of the Star Wars franchise might be headed to the highlands — the county of Argyll in the Scottish Highlands, to be precise.
Central highlands Village in the central highlands.
Finally the Caledonia Highlands and St. Croix Highlands extend along the Bay of Fundy coast reaching elevations of more than convert.
Highlands rise in four spots on the island, as well as on Sangeang Island, the large western lobe of Sumbawa is dominated by a large central highland, there is Mt. Tambora, Dompu and Bima each have more minor highlands.
In 1936 the federal government established the Cape Breton Highlands National Park covering convert across the northern third of the Highlands.
In 2008, the American Planning Association (APA) designated Boise's North End one of 10 Great Neighborhoods. citation Boise Highlands The Boise Highlands is located just north of The North End.
The longest road in the country is the Highlands Highway which links Lae and Madang to the Highlands region.
Tiruray highlands Situated south and west of the Cotabato Basin are a moderately high mountain range, the Tiruray Highlands, which block off the Basin from the southern coastline.
A bank card being hacked, spam messages claiming to be a government body or bank are scams that many people in the Highlands have been impacted by.
Adam Bray drove three hours from 's Southern Highlands to the crash site near Greta after he was unable to locate his son, 29, at any of the hospitals nearby.
Ahead of its release on the Nintendo Switch console on December 5, the game’s creative director Joe Humfrey revealed that the game is “unlike anything” that inkle has made before and was inspired by his own adventures in the Highlands as a youth.
Alex Salmond has called the Scottish Government’s failure to dual the A9 to Inverness a “very substantial betrayal” of the Highlands.
Alex Smith, programme manager at XpoNorth Digital, said: ‘‘Live streaming offers a fantastic opportunity for networks across the Highlands and Islands to reach new and existing audiences regionally, nationally and internationally.
Common combinations with highlands
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the highlands 90×
- highlands and 44×
- scottish highlands 14×
- southern highlands 12×
- highlands ranch 7×
- laurel highlands 7×
- highlands the 6×
- highlands in 6×
- highlands is 5×
- highlands of 5×