How to Use top brass in a Sentence

top brass

noun
  • In the past few days, the gulf between the top brass and the rank and file has grown.
    — Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Even so, top brass have been engaged in talks to get the late-night host back on the air.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Crucially, the club’s top brass have stood by their man throughout.
    — James McNicholas, New York Times, 19 May 2026
  • There was no emphasis for the top brass to work on her music, so her music was shelved.
    — Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Karadec, and the department's top brass.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Nonetheless, Stellantis' top brass is hot on the car.
    — Liam Rappleye, Freep.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The army disputed the reports of a coup plot, but that has not stopped Tinubu’s swift shake-up of the top brass.
    — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • That entails being a bridge between design staff and Apple’s top brass.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The last request is for more transparency from top brass in the department for dispatchers and staff.
    — Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The Warriors’ top brass, however, don’t believe so.
    — Evan Webeck, Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The Atlanta Falcons fired top brass hours after the season ended.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The first will be a more traditional military review, with the second a march-past of the nation’s top brass.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Some board members pushed back on Cervera’s efforts due to concerns that there may be longterm repercussions if the board cut certain top brass jobs.
    — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 12 May 2026
  • Brookfield and Goldman Sachs, too, have sent top brass since the war began (meetings that tend to be well covered by state media).
    — Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Insiders say Amazon top brass are completely supportive of this plan.
    — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 6 Feb. 2026
  • For the second consecutive home game, Dolphins fans have banded together to send a message to the franchise’s top brass.
    — David Wilson, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Wolff himself had a winding career before becoming top brass for Mercedes’ F1 team.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
  • News of the massive military meeting was announced last week, when Hegseth summoned the top brass, who were not informed about the purpose of the meeting in advance.
    — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
  • And George’s ouster is the latest public example of tension between the Pentagon chief and Army top brass.
    — Jared Gans, The Hill, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Banks claims on Reality Check their exit was an order from top brass at the CW, the network airing the show at the time.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The dossier also claimed that the BBC’s top brass ignored complaints and suggestions by the standards committee.
    — Jack Dunn, Variety, 9 Nov. 2025
  • By the time the Mets arrived at the final weekend of their season in Miami, top brass felt decidedly different.
    — Tim Britton, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The Miami Dolphins’ top brass has maintained that 2026 isn’t a rebuild from Day 1.
    — Miami Herald, 23 Mar. 2026
  • All of the top brass attended this meeting, and everyone involved credited my partner Ricky and me as the masterminds behind the massive seizure.
    — Martin Suarez, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2025
  • For the first two and a half years after the unit was created in 2023, the failure to properly review stops affected just part of the unit, which was led by top brass.
    — Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 11 May 2026
  • Bolsonaro is serving a 27-year jail term over the conspiracy, which prosecutors said failed only because of a lack of support from military top brass.
    — CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Neither leader had a presence at Tuesday’s health committee hearing, where the state health care system’s top brass spoke about the consequences and possible responses.
    — Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The Philadelphia Phillies suffered another playoff disappointment this season and the top brass has faced the music.
    — Peter Chawaga, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Bryce Harper went through some tension with the Phillies' top brass, while Kyle Schwarber is a free agent and getting plenty of interest from other suitors.
    — Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2025
  • The intelligence report suggested a heated exchange between top brass in a Kremlin meeting late last year with Putin partially sparked the new measures.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 4 May 2026

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