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:

  • It's the highest-ranking of the three Scorsese films on the American Film Institute's Top 100 list, and it's widely considered to be his masterpiece.

  • USAT 's front reports that one of the highest-ranking female law enforcement officials in the government, a higher-up at Treasury, is being investigated to see if she used her position to steer government business to a subordinate who is a close friend.

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

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


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