How to Use high-ranking in a Sentence

high-ranking

adjective
  • The military said two of the men were high-ranking militants.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 2023-11-07
  • One way was to bring in a number of high-ranking members of the production team from the original show.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 2024-02-25
  • The high-ranking priests swore to obey the rules of the funeral plans that Pope Francis made last year.
    — Gabriele Regalbuto, FOXNews.com, 2025-04-23
  • Here are our picks for 25 of the most notable movies about real-life politicians and high-ranking figures.
    — Keith Staskiewicz, EW.com, 2024-06-26
  • One such person was a neurosurgeon who works as a driver for a high-ranking Vuvv.
    — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 2023-08-17
  • The kilt-wearing major is not to be confused with two other high-ranking equerries who have also charmed hearts.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 2023-07-25
  • Even high-ranking German politicians have scorned the Senate’s plan.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 2024-12-06
  • George Low, a high-ranking official at the space agency, suggested a change in plans.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 2023-11-10
  • Other high-ranking Trump officials have backed the measures.
    — Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 2025-05-16
  • But Biden, of course, is not the only old high-ranking American politician.
    — Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 2024-07-04
  • Two high-ranking officials in county transit have stepped down since the disclosure of the shortfall.
    — Sophia Tiedge, jsonline.com, 2025-07-10
  • The high-ranking Haitian officer had received the frantic call for help from the president.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 2025-01-26
  • Some high-ranking Russian officials have called for a swift and harsh military response.
    — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 2023-05-03
  • Longtime scouts, high-ranking executives and coaches in Rochester all heard from Adams that day.
    — Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 2025-06-02
  • The fact that this arm guard is made from strips of brass, a rare and expensive metal at the time, suggests that the wearer was a high-ranking official.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 2024-01-23
  • And once again the leaders of China and Russia will skip it all, sending high-ranking ministers to speak in their stead.
    — Richard Roth, CNN, 2024-09-21
  • The other gunman, who ran off and has not been caught, also fired the bullet that killed Mette, according to a high-ranking police source.
    — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 2025-04-23
  • But East’s nine and eight of clubs had a suit-preference implication: high club spots to suggest an entry in spades, the high-ranking suit.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 2024-09-22
  • Sometimes, according to the indictment, high-ranking gang members would go to court and pull records, looking for names to see who may be talking to police.
    — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 2023-03-29
  • The changes have rankled some high-ranking staff and career professionals at NASA.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 2025-04-09
  • Most of their high-ranking members in Québec were in jail or waiting to go on trial for their part in that province’s biker war of the 1990s.
    — Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 2025-01-04
  • The film also touches on theories in the real-life case that Dutroux was part of a larger paedophile ring with connections to high-ranking figures.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 2024-10-17
  • The second half of the cabin was designed for high-ranking ministers or state guests who reside in six Deluxe Suites, and first-class compartments.
    — Daniel Cote, Robb Report, 2024-07-31
  • The city will rely on federal funding for 6% of its budget, which has troubled high-ranking New York state officials.
    — Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 2025-05-02
  • Early in March, a high-ranking Emirati diplomat delivered a letter from Trump to Khamenei.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 2025-04-03
  • Anyone would have been able to find the whereabouts of the high-ranking business figure with a few quick Google searches, according to D’Amico.
    — Tom Winter, NBC News, 2024-12-06
  • Yet one high-ranking Wagner insider, Andrei Troshev, has emerged as a potential contender to step in and run what’s left of the group.
    — Mary Ilyushina, Francesca Ebel, Rachel Chason and Claire Parker, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 2023-08-26
  • The island is home to the Grand Forest, a 240-acre nature preserve with many hiking and cycling trails, high-ranking schools, shops, and restaurants.
    — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 2023-09-10
  • In Nuremberg, in the fall of 1945, twenty-two high-ranking Nazis were put on trial before a group of judges from Allied nations.
    — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 2023-10-16
  • After the violence at the Capitol, some high-ranking Proud Boys disavowed Trump, expressing anger at him for having left them standing on a limb.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2023-06-13

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