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Synonyms

high and low

Idioms  
  1. Everywhere, as in We searched high and low but couldn't find the ring, or He hunted high and low for a parking space.


Example Sentences

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I got tingly in my fingers thinking about opening up the book and reading those words out loud, making my voice go high and low, rough and smooth, like I did in my room.

From Literature

They searched high and low, but no one in Sassafras Springs ever saw hide nor hair of Holt again.”

From Literature

As shippers frontloaded their goods to get ahead of import taxes, cargo volumes swung high and low.

From Los Angeles Times

She’d started keeping a weather journal, where she wrote down the daily high and low temperatures, the cloud formations, the wind speeds, the amount of sunshine and rain.

From Literature

Australia's fire danger ratings scale has four levels, with catastrophic being the highest level, followed by extreme, high and low.

From BBC