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
  • And the Bulls top brass didn’t want to face those questions either.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Crucially, the club’s top brass have stood by their man throughout.
    — James McNicholas, New York Times, 19 May 2026
  • Most of the union’s top brass padded their paychecks with overtime on top of six-figure union stipends.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Today, the company’s top brass are on the verge of saying the same.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • This facelift comes as the Barbican has shaken up its top brass over the last year.
    — George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Marvel knows fans will go either way on this choice, but top brass lay out their reasoning.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The charges say the coup only failed due to a lack of support among the military’s top brass.
    — Constance Malleret, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2025
  • But some officials felt his message was out of line, and the email soon leaked to the press, a bad look for top brass.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2023
  • Hamas also is using Telegram as a megaphone for its top brass.
    — Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Karadec, and the department's top brass.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Sep. 2025
  • To be sure, generals are now daring to complain more openly about the top brass.
    — Tatiana Stanovaya, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The club’s top brass sees potential and upside in a low-cost investment.
    — Beren Cross, New York Times, 18 June 2025
  • Even Harris would presumably need to make some changes to the campaign’s top brass.
    — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 July 2024
  • Nonetheless, Stellantis' top brass is hot on the car.
    — Liam Rappleye, Freep.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • For the core Hollywood crowd, bragging rights will go to the top brass at Disney.
    — Marc Malkin, Variety, 2 July 2026
  • And, for that matter, how desperate for money the league’s top brass really is.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • This is your opportunity to rise in the ranks and get the top brass to see you and perhaps even get a promotion.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 28 June 2024
  • 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
  • Even the top brass at RCA didn’t know the former would become a success story.
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The tour featured more engagements with press, all adjustments his campaign's top brass laid out to donors last weekend.
    — Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 28 July 2023
  • 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
  • The gap between the lifestyles of the average Vietnamese and those of the party’s top brass is a touchy subject.
    — Heather Chen, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The firm also issued roughly $300 million in performance share units to top brass.
    — Dawn Lim, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2024

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