Example sentences for: ranks

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

  • In contrast, the Wilcoxon test is nonparametric and is based on the ranks of observed gene-expression levels.

  • Other indices are similarly mixed: October has historically been the worst month for the Nasdaq Composite Index, but ranks seventh for the Standard & Poor's 500.

  • The magazine ranks schools on the rate of alumni giving--the percentage of alumni who donate money to their school.

  • Under affirmative action, a white applicant who ranks 99 th might well be denied admission while a black who ranks 105 th would get in.

  • His torrential, lurid masterpiece Witness , a best seller in 1952 and still Ronald Reagan's favorite book in the 1980s, ranks as one of the great American autobiographies.


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