Example Sentences

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Eventually, FHA hopes to get back around $25 million from builders, who placed overhigh valuations on projects, thus made big profits on deals where Government-insured mortgages exceeded cost of building.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a man’s voice, pitched overhigh; it came from somewhere beyond and below the inclosing curtains and cut off the last of Patsy’s speech.

From Seven Miles to Arden by Sawyer, Ruth

Still, a friendly word of caution—and the guard is overhigh!

From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Travis, Stuart

None of us holds Rucker overhigh, an' yet we jestifies that husband's action.

From Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories by Dunton, W. Herbert