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:

  • Between 1789 and 1815 the chapel assumed various guises: a flour warehouse during the Revolution and a club for high-ranking dandies, then an archive for Napoléon’s Consulate.

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • Perhaps the most popular point for visitors lies in the south where at the highest point — Hill of the Muses or Philopappos Hill — is the Tomb of Philopappos, a high-ranking nobleman in Roman times.


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