Example sentences for: high-ranking

How can you use “high-ranking” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • So by selling out for a mere $700,000--if he really did--Brown revealed his expectation that competitors (presumably other high-ranking officials with the means to influence trade policy) were prepared to undercut him.

  • The LAT and NYT report that during the high-ranking U.N. delegation's visit to East Timor no shots were heard, but the officials could see that the city was in ruins.

  • Things have gone smoothly for for Jay: He moved to Washington, D.C., and has worked as a high-ranking government official.

  • But Chatterbox is at a loss to explain how anyone but a pair of formerly high-ranking newspaper executives could conceive of interviewing McPherson without grilling him about his representation of the tobacco industry, which in 1997 transformed McPherson's law firm, Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand, into a gaudy lobbying powerhouse (at least in terms of billable hours).

  • Only members of the imperial family and high-ranking priests are allowed past the second of the four fences.


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