Example sentences for: highest-paid

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

  • And yes, he is one of the highest-paid English professors around.

  • Philosopher Richard Rorty (whose work was the topic of "Out of Left Field" in Slate ) has given up his chair at the University of Virginia (and a salary that made him the highest-paid public employee in the state) in favor of a nontenured post at Stanford, where he'll teach until he retires--or until a better offer comes along.

  • None of the papers mention a fact about Tripp that makes this last claim puzzling: During the time frame she's referring to she remained one of the DOD's highest-paid employees, making $90-plus K. She even got a raise.

  • Zapp, a jetsetting, starfucking, and intellectually luminous American deconstructionist whose charm lies in his gleeful disregard for scholarly convention, aspires to become the highest-paid English professor in the world.

  • Five years ago, Speaker-elect Newt Gingrich promised to make important information available online "at the same moment that it is available to the highest-paid Washington lobbyist."


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