Example sentences for: highest-ranking

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

  • The highest-ranking officer in the North Tower was responsible for communicating with the Chief of Department.

  • The consolidation algorithm follows a hierarchy in which unit boundaries are respected for the highest-ranking feature.

  • The model for an international war-crimes tribunal is the Nuremberg trials , established by Allied victors in Germany to try the 24 highest-ranking Nazis . Their crimes included the "deliberate instigation of aggressive wars," the extermination of racial and religious groups, and the murder and mistreatment of prisoners of war.

  • The NYT story covers much the same ground as the others, but breaks out with its observation that the indictments mean that Espy is "the highest-ranking member of the Clinton administration to be charged with a crime."

  • Though the highest-ranking CIA official ever accused of espionage, Nicholson appears to have done less damage than Aldrich Ames.


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