How to Use high-pressure in a Sentence

high-pressure

1 of 2 adjective
  • But this kind of high-pressure job is not the place – not the way to go.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The high-pressure, stagnant air tends to make the area above it hotter.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 20 June 2023
  • The heat was being caused by a high-pressure ridge over the West, Wofford said.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2023
  • Or will the pleasant high-pressure zone remain large and in charge?
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
  • The other is the high-pressure test in which helium is pumped through the system to see if gas leaks out.
    — Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The cloudless skies that come with high-pressure systems also let the sun beat down and warm the surface.
    — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 12 May 2023
  • According to the New York Times, this heat dome is the result of a high-pressure ridge in the atmosphere.
    — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 22 June 2023
  • The persistent heat in the Southwest is the result of a high-pressure system that has been parked over the region for weeks.
    — Mary Beth Gahan, New York Times, 18 July 2023
  • Heat domes involve high-pressure areas that trap and heat up the air below.
    — William Gallus, CBS News, 26 June 2023
  • Now a high-pressure hosing was the reward for a donation to a colleague’s cause of choice.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
  • Historically, the Step by Step star took on the most high-pressure role on the festive day.
    — Andrea Mandell, Peoplemag, 21 Nov. 2023
  • And to cope with the high-pressure season, reindeer, like so many of us, turn to multitasking.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2023
  • They're caused when air moves from the high-pressure system pressure north of Hawaii — known as the North Pacific High — to the area of low pressure at the equator, to the south of the state.
    — CBS News, 14 Aug. 2023
  • In the wintertime, that heat dome, or the high-pressure center, would get pushed south ... closer to the Caribbean.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2023
  • On the west side of the jet stream is extreme cold air and to the east, parked off Florida and Caribbean, is a very warm and dry high-pressure system.
    — Seth Borenstein, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2023
  • White said this heat wave is a result of a high-pressure dome above Indianapolis, which is an area of warm air that sticks in place.
    — Morgan Womack, The Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2023
  • Its high-pressure sand filter pump filters 2,400 gallons per hour to keep your pool clean and free of debris.
    — Veronica Graham, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 June 2023
  • That’s because high-pressure air is sinking, pressing down on the air and the inversion beneath it.
    — Paul Duginski, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
  • For those deep aches that manual massagers just can't reach, this massager from MIKO has the high-pressure kneading your feet crave.
    — Cai Cramer, Peoplemag, 30 May 2023
  • That’s not to say that there isn’t a considerable amount of juggling that Gen Xers are doing to stay afloat during a high-pressure point in their lives.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The strong, cold high-pressure system stuck over Eastern Canada pushes just a bit more cold air into the area, with highs only in the upper 30s to mid-40s.
    — David Streit, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The main drivers of the heat wave are a high-pressure system over California and weakened onshore flow.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Yet today’s drilling methods can barely push through dense rocks and high-pressure conditions to reach it.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Over the next days, Connor ordered police and firefighters to blast the children with high-pressure water hoses.
    — Deneen L. Brown, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Season 1 is tense, intricate, and high-pressure with a mind-blowing final episode that ends on a cliffhanger.
    — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The caverns are created by a process called solution mining, in which a well is drilled into the salt and high-pressure water is pumped down.
    — Henry Fountain Nina Riggio, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Stress Who hasn't dealt with a high-pressure workday or relationship rough spot by enjoying a pint of Rocky Road?
    — Esther Crain, Health, 19 June 2023
  • The weather will be warmer primarily because a large high-pressure system is building along the West Coast.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2023
  • Kelly's legal background equips her with a deep understanding of the challenges faced by attorneys in high-pressure environments.
    — Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
  • On multiple occasions, Chinese coast guard ships shot high-pressure jets of water at Philippine resupply boats, and last December and early March, boats from both countries have collided near the shoal.
    — Emily Feng, NPR, 11 Apr. 2024

high-pressure

2 of 2 verb
  • The new job, in a university fundraising office, came with long hours and high-pressure goals.
    — Rachel Feintzeig, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The prolonged stretch of ebb tides is linked to a lingering high-pressure weather system over much of Italy, experts say.
    — Claudio Lavanga, NBC News, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The high-pressure system will fall apart by Thursday afternoon.
    — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Auburn can be trusted in high-pressure situations, but some of the younger athletes like kickers Will Stone and Charles Feris haven’t been put in similar scenarios yet.
    — Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Opening night of the 2023 Freep Film Festival will take viewers inside a high-quality, high-pressure culinary school where students learn to prepare exquisite gourmet meals.
    — Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Visitors heading to Venice may not see as many of the city's picturesque canals, or potentially enjoy a gondola ride, as the waterways have dried up due to a high-pressure weather system sitting over Italy.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2023
  • City officials say a high-pressure weather system—called an anticyclone—that’s hovering over western Europe is causing the low tide.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Walsh, of the University of Massachusetts, expressed enthusiasm for the material itself—named for its ruby red hue in its high-pressure state.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The Bay Area is finally starting to thaw out today as a warm high-pressure system approaches California, setting off a warming trend this holiday weekend.
    — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Past media reports have brought national attention to ICOC’s high-pressure tactics.
    — Ngai Yeung, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Restaurant kitchens are notoriously high-pressure environments in which to work.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 2 Mar. 2023
  • He’s developed a system for curing target panic, buck fever, and generally screwing up in high-pressure situations.
    — Scott Einsmann, Outdoor Life, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Miscellaneous education majors too have lower salaries, perhaps prefacing the teaching crisis in which educators leave their high-pressure jobs for better pay.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2023
  • These materials conduct electricity without losing energy, but so far, the only way for a superconductor to work is in an ultra-cold or ultra-high-pressure environment.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Dias uses the material in a high-pressure diamond anvil cell (DAC) in hopes of creating novel quantum materials such as superconductors with a critical temperature at or near room temperature.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Mar. 2023

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