How to Use rank in a Sentence

rank

1 of 3 noun
  • He rose to the rank of partner in the law firm.
  • He longed to join the upper social ranks.
  • She's not concerned about rank or wealth.
  • He moved up through the ranks to become vice president of the company.
  • The organization's ranks have doubled in the past two years.
  • The flu swept through the ranks, infecting almost every soldier.
  • Several men were selected from the ranks.
  • She’s held that rank for 31 years.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2026
  • His 28 wins rank third in the league.
    — CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Bury them by units, bury them by rank, but not by state.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
  • This is just straight-up rank hatred.
    — Terry Collins, USA Today, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Where does Draft Day rank for you?
    — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Smith has been bumped down to the college ranks.
    — Mike Defabo, New York Times, 17 May 2026
  • This new event will be aiming to join those ranks.
    — Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 3 Apr. 2026
  • But, there goes your rank and there goes your future.
    — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
  • But, there goes your rank and there goes your future.
    — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 3 Oct. 2025
  • But, there goes your rank and there goes your future.
    — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The names were read out in order from first rank to last.
    — George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future.
    — Daniel Orton, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Both men worked their way up through the ranks of their agencies.
    — Michael Scherer, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
  • And her rank was going to be lifted.
    — Time Staff, Time, 25 Feb. 2026
  • From there, Snitker worked his way up through the ranks.
    — David O'Brien, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Hegseth never rose above the rank of major.
    — Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2026
  • That means a service page's content has to do more than rank.
    — Michael Fox, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • This film joins the ranks of other great stories told over one day.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 22 Sep. 2025
  • That's roughly 15% of its ranks.
    — Brandon Truitt, CBS News, 16 May 2026
  • That’s the message that trickled down to me through the ranks.
    — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 6 Mar. 2026
  • That belief doesn't track with rank or résumé.
    — Chris Rosenberg, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • They’re listed in rank order, with the top grades at the end.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Black leaders are sidelined from our ranks.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 16 June 2026

rank

2 of 3 verb
  • The city currently ranks as the world's largest.
  • A magazine recently ranked the school as one of the best in the country.
  • Students who rank in the top third of their class have a better chance of being accepted to the college of their choice.
  • Brown ranked 5th on this list last month.
    — Tony Blengino, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Of course, being ranked is a good thing.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Solar ranks third, coal fourth and wind fifth.
    — Robert G. Eccles, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Each state got a score out of 70 and was then ranked.
    — Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • His 60% mark ranked tied for 58th.
    — Gary Bedore may 13, Kansas City Star, 14 May 2026
  • The city ranked the 10th least safe city to have a car.
    — Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Their defense ranks best in the league against the run and pass.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 8 Feb. 2026
  • The Tigers do not rank in the top four this season.
    — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Time Out ranked it among the city’s 10 best sports bars.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 11 June 2026
  • That ranked 62nd among all hitters in the sport.
    — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • Why does Ridgecrest rank among best places to buy homes?
    — Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • All of those teams were highly ranked in the nation.
    — Dan Albano, Oc Register, 17 June 2026
  • It was also ranked the overall safesty city to have a car.
    — Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Lottery odds ranked by records over the last two seasons.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2026
  • All stores were ranked from zero to 100.
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 23 Feb. 2026
  • These years were ranked by the pace of job creation and sliced into three groups.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 7 May 2026
  • Davidson had been ranked #1 in the country for weeks.
    — Letters To The Editor, Hartford Courant, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The Cubs rank second in the majors in runs per game.
    — Levi Weaver, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The Big Ten has seven teams ranked in this week’s poll.
    — John Shipley, Twin Cities, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The program ranks third in the state among the area’s 6A teams.
    — Myah Taylor, Dallas Morning News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The Aztecs are ranked 25th in the nation.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
  • It was ranked 16th in Illinois last year.
    — Pioneer Press, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Those three teams all ranked in the top seven in points against and yards against last season.
    — Nicki Jhabvala, New York Times, 15 May 2026
  • Hong Kong once ranked 18th, in 2002.
    — Chris Lau, CNN Money, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Crochet holds his #2 ranking from last month.
    — Tony Blengino, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The school was ranked second among private schools by Niche.
    — Chase Jordan june 4, Charlotte Observer, 4 June 2026
  • That ranked 20th best among the 50 large metros.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 30 Mar. 2026

rank

3 of 3 adjective
  • You can't expect a rank beginner like her to know all the rules of the game.
  • Both of those slots now rank as new peaks for the decades-old title.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • So if your dog is starting to smell a little bit rank, read on.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Let’s rank powers and see who is up and down to start the second half.
    — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 22 July 2025
  • There’s rank frustration on the part of lower court judges.
    — John E. Jones Iii, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The purple efforts are beautiful and rank high among the best tube station decor.
    — Caoimhe O'Neill, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Both Heritage and Fraser rank Peru in the top third of the world.
    — Alejandro Antonio Chafuen, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
  • Cosby’s good guys do things that outpace the rankest villainy in the work of other crime writers.
    — Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Last year a rank Angus cow, unbranded, unclaimed, and unpredictable as a prairie fire, holed up in the slough.
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 20 Nov. 2025
  • There are so many factors that impact the outcome of games that addressing that issue would require rank speculation.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Many of those still rank among Pixar's best films, have spawned sequels and featured the voice talents of instantly recognizable stars.
    — Madeline Boardman, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2024
  • His Philly teams have never finished worse than 14th in total yardage, yet currently rank 23rd.
    — Jacob Robinson, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2025
  • In fact, the way people search for information has shifted—your content now helps shape how AI tools find, rank and present answers.
    — Jeremy Fields, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Any attempt to model tax liability in the new system will be rank speculation.
    — David L. Bahnsen, National Review, 17 Oct. 2017
  • The nexus inspires the most rank forms of situational ethics and rationalizations.
    — The Hive, 28 Apr. 2017
  • This has been a power grab by a political opportunist – a desperate move that is part of a rank political vendetta.
    — Fox News, 9 Aug. 2020
  • The Rockets throw the twelfth-most passes in the league, but rank stone cold last in assists, a testament to the fact that passes rarely arrive in the shooter's pocket.
    — Mark Deeks, Forbes, 31 Mar. 2023
  • At the time, both the EU and the US were passive in the face of such shenanigans coupled the rankest disinformation.
    — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Seneca was a Roman senator, a philosopher and playwright who acted as tutor to the boy emperor and received nothing but rank ingratitude for his efforts.
    — Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Cultivate trusted cross-rank advocacy and networks to support junior employees.
    — Jallicia Jolly, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The twin sons of former NBA player Theo Ratliff moved up 34 spots and 20 spots, respectively, in the site’s latest re-rank.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Forcing priests to divulge confessions, while exempting all manner of secular confessors, is rank religious discrimination.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 6 May 2025
  • This isn’t a re-rank — more of an evaluation of how the top 10 classes, according to the 247Sports Composite, panned out now that the players in this cycle have completed three years of college.
    — Manny Navarro, New York Times, 15 May 2026
  • And 18% of Gen Z and millennials actually rank creator content higher than search engines for product information or recommendations.
    — Rodney Mason, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The allure of freelancing, side hustling, and digital nomadism has created a thriving gig economy as younger generations increasingly rank fulfillment above traditional 9-to-5s.
    — Ebony Flake, Essence, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The hypocrisy is especially rank as RFK pushes the Food and Drug Administration to loosen restrictions on peptides, an experimental fad among wellness influencers who scorn traditional medicine.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2026

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