Example sentences for: higher-ups

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

  • This is the realm where history--such as it is, Didion believes--gets made, "exclusively and at random by people like Dick McMahon" and his much more ruthless higher-ups.

  • The U.N. force in Rwanda could have taken simple steps to prevent killing, but U.N. higher-ups declined to act.

  • This paradox resulted in epidemiologists managing two sets of information: one officially reported to higher-ups and one unofficially kept (with more accurate numerators).

  • Notra Trulock, the Energy Department's chief of intelligence and the sole hero of the account, continually tried to alert higher-ups at his agency, the FBI, and the White House about the size and impact of the theft.

  • E-mail is making the workplace more egalitarian by enabling minions to send suggestions to higher-ups.


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