How to Use rank and file in a Sentence

rank and file

noun
  • The question is how well the rank and file will accept change.
    — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 17 July 2021
  • But her policies and practices riled some of the rank and file.
    — Caleb Downs, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Things have not been terrible for as long as the rank and file think.
    — Eric Bolin, ajc, 7 Nov. 2017
  • Like, the rank and file of the committee were briefed late on this.
    — NBC News, 3 July 2022
  • Redbox’s rank and file don’t seem convinced that help is on the way.
    — Janko Roettgers, The Verge, 5 July 2024
  • So, there is a great appetite for the fight with our rank and file members.
    — CBS News, 1 Sep. 2024
  • That hurt him with much of the rank and file, who ridiculed his academic airs.
    — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Boards could do more to broaden ownership to the rank and file.
    — The Economist, 8 June 2019
  • Did anyone consider that maybe some of the rank and file make too much?
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Such a move would likely meet with resistance from the rank and file.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
  • And to be sure, there are plenty of buyouts that don’t work out too well for the rank and file.
    — Kevin Dowd, Forbes, 17 May 2022
  • Officers accuse the top brass of not standing up for the rank and file.
    — Will Wright, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2020
  • My only recourse was appealing my case to the union’s rank and file.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 10 May 2025
  • Kind of a pain for the rank and file media that cover the Raiders every day?
    — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 12 June 2019
  • That helped prompt companies to spend any surplus on the rank and file instead.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 12 Sep. 2022
  • That triggered ire among the Hollywood unions’ rank and file.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The Dallas rank and file see chiefs who are hired from out of state with some skepticism.
    — Cassandra Jaramillo, Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2021
  • The rank and file are just sheep, willing to vote for whichever bill the leadership tells them to.
    — Jim Newell, Slate Magazine, 28 July 2017
  • At the same time, the police union’s leadership is telling the rank and file that Prop.
    — Evan Sernoffsky, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2018
  • Cops -- this is a slap in the face to every rank and file cop in the United States.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 20 May 2021
  • Neither can the rank and file, if the rash of new tips coming in are any indication.
    — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 10 Jan. 2020
  • But Netanyahu is still very popular with the Likud rank and file.
    — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2019
  • But orders to the group's rank and file on the ground are contradictory.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2021
  • The agencies said the changes were aimed at protecting their rank and file against harassment and doxxing.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Dec. 2020
  • The mayor said a number of issues contributed to the decrease in the rank and file.
    — Ryan Young, CNN, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Because of this, the NRA is not beholden to its rank and file.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The way out of this morass may come not from the POA’s leadership but from its rank and file.
    — Caille Millner, SFChronicle.com, 24 Jan. 2020
  • At Fiat Chrysler, the rank and file rejected the initial deal there.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The statement said over 70% of rank and file members voted in favor of the agreement.
    — Theo Greenly, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The problem is not with the rank and file within the NCAA, but at the top.
    — Elton Alexander, cleveland.com, 26 Apr. 2018

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