high and low
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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.
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They searched high and low, but no one in Sassafras Springs ever saw hide nor hair of Holt again.”
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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.
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Australia's fire danger ratings scale has four levels, with catastrophic being the highest level, followed by extreme, high and low.
From BBC
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