high-hat
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
The first half of the new LP steers into candid confessions, backed by heavy synth and incessant high-hat; in “Blue Days,” Clasen sings, “My ego is evil / It’s coming to get me.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2022
My eyes digest the immensity of fallen trees bracketing the trail, the high-hat shaped fungi that spring from trunks and the thick folds of lichen hanging from branches that obscure the far-off canopy.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2021
“My heart cold as the moon,” Freejacob raps over a high-hat that ticks like clockwork.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 9, 2020
A man becomes the manager of a company and must gain back the respect of his workers after taking a high-hat approach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2019
If he high-hats you with his success I'll tell him that you've sold a drawing to the New Yorker and you can high-hat him back.
From Class of '29 by Lashin, Orrie
Yankee Doodle Boy hits pretty hard at Cohan's early days when, as a flip, conceited kid playing in vaudeville, he high-hatted stagehands, raised hell over his billing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Marines, high-hatted bigwigs and sheepish ballplayers, shuffling out of step.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was moving along with us, her face peering over the half-lowered window, growing suspicious of movie stars who high-hatted their fans.
From Time Magazine Archive
Anyway, ever since last year, when one high-hatted member was mugged while en route to the opera, there has been the feeling that to wear a silk topper is to invite trouble.
From Time Magazine Archive
All the noted campaign speakers assigned to our town were invited to be the Markleys' guests, and Mrs. Markley sent her husband, red necktied, high-hatted and tailor-made, to the train to meet the distinguished guest.
From In Our Town by Gruger, Frederic Rodrigo
