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:

  • Reno said she had yet to find "specific, credible evidence" implicating a high-ranking government official (i.e.

  • A high-ranking middle-aged woman in the Clinton administration said to me recently, "If the world knew about my messy love life in my 20s, I wouldn't be in this job."

  • Cohen has faced down two generals who bucked his authority, but hasn't won (and will never win, the article predicts) the full confidence of high-ranking officers.

  • In 1846, during the course of an unsavory palace intrigue involving an unsolved murder, meddling by the queen, and the massacre of some 100 high-ranking court figures who had been lured to a palace courtyard, the instigator of these events became the power behind the throne.

  • The NYT reports that in a telephone interview, a high-ranking official of the Taliban, the fundamentalist Moslem group controlling Afghanistan, said that if the U.S. provided hard evidence of bin Laden's involvement in the African embassy bombings, the Taliban would be willing to discuss with American officials what to do about him.


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