How to Use top-ranking in a Sentence

top-ranking

adjective
  • These are the top-ranking selects.
    — Malia Griggs, Glamour, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Trump had the top-ranking lacrosse team stand to be recognized.
    — Seung Min Kim, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2025
  • But don’t knock the lack of top-ranking statistics.
    — Benjamin Royer, Daily News, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Before this, a top-ranking site actually appeared at the very top of the page.
    — Nick Brown, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Several of the top-ranking companies across all three lists this year also took the top spots last year.
    — Haniya Rae, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
  • Here's what to know about the top-ranking Wisconsin campground and which other sites made the list.
    — Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Roughly a 55-mile drive to the southeast, Greensboro was home to two top-ranking brunch spots.
    — Simone Jasper, Charlotte Observer, 7 May 2024
  • Other top-ranking bedroom colors include charcoal gray and sage green.
    — Abby Monteil, The Spruce, 16 June 2026
  • The top-ranking position will be Curran's first job at the service's headquarters.
    — Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2025
  • But all the top-ranking articles for that keyword focus on comparing multiple tools, with pros, cons and pricing.
    — Nick Zviadadze, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Here are some other top-ranking owl impressions going viral on TikTok this month.
    — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The comments from the Brewers’ top-ranking officials, however, do not completely rule out a trade.
    — Will Sammon, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2025
  • At the time, some top-ranking Democrats called out Bloomberg for his connection to the Republican party.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2024
  • In my opinion, the Winnie blowup feels like a lawsuit waiting to happen… firing a top-ranking woman right after her show gets to number one?
    — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 16 May 2025
  • But as more top-ranking officials have become implicated in the scandal, some have pointed the finger back at the president.
    — Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Their efforts and spending have gained some headway within the legislature and among top-ranking Texas officials.
    — Doyle Rader, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The top-ranking Florida city was Clearwater, in the Tampa Bay area.
    — Simone Jasper, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Mickey Guyton has a way of dazzling everyone in her path — including, maybe most of all, her fellow top-ranking musicians.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Hamas has confirmed the deaths of some of its middle- and top-ranking commanders in recent assaults, but denied Israeli claims that other top officers had been killed.
    — Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office has removed three top-ranking deputies from its command staff.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The sole woman was Jessica Cohen, a top-ranking broker at Elliman.
    — James D. Walsh, Curbed, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The nation’s top-ranking main street was in Howell, Michigan, a roughly 55-mile drive northwest from Detroit.
    — Simone Jasper, Charlotte Observer, 22 Apr. 2024
  • By 2022, the number of San Gabriel Valley places in the top-ranking Asian neighborhoods had tripled.
    — Aida Ylanan, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
  • Any candidate who wins at least 50% of votes in the first round will be elected president, otherwise the two top-ranking candidates will face off in a second round a week later.
    — Joseph Ataman, CNN, 28 June 2024
  • However, homebuyers need to have twice that amount to afford a home in the top-ranking ZIP code, 33109.
    — Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Fossil fuel companies are among the world’s top-ranking companies, as seen in the Fortune 500 Europe list.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 16 Sep. 2024
  • This is similar to the range of scheduling options with Acronis Cyber Protect and other top-ranking backup apps.
    — PCMAG, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Other top-ranking entries came from students in Finland, Peru, Kansas and Canada.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Despite the decline, Bud Light continues to outrank Modelo in volume sales and remains the top-ranking beer brand based on dollar sales year-to-date.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
  • Airstrikes have also killed the head of its Supreme National Security Council and a raft of other top-ranking leaders.
    — Arkansas Online, 21 Mar. 2026

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