How to Use high-ranking in a Sentence

high-ranking

adjective
  • The military said two of the men were high-ranking militants.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2023
  • One way was to bring in a number of high-ranking members of the production team from the original show.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The high-ranking priests swore to obey the rules of the funeral plans that Pope Francis made last year.
    Gabriele Regalbuto, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Here are our picks for 25 of the most notable movies about real-life politicians and high-ranking figures.
    Keith Staskiewicz, EW.com, 26 June 2024
  • One such person was a neurosurgeon who works as a driver for a high-ranking Vuvv.
    Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The kilt-wearing major is not to be confused with two other high-ranking equerries who have also charmed hearts.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 25 July 2023
  • Even high-ranking German politicians have scorned the Senate’s plan.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 6 Dec. 2024
  • George Low, a high-ranking official at the space agency, suggested a change in plans.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2023
  • But Biden, of course, is not the only old high-ranking American politician.
    Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 4 July 2024
  • Two high-ranking officials in county transit have stepped down since the disclosure of the shortfall.
    Sophia Tiedge, jsonline.com, 10 July 2025
  • The high-ranking Haitian officer had received the frantic call for help from the president.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 June 2024
  • Centuries ago, in a cathedral in Poland, high-ranking archbishops were laid to rest in elaborate crypts.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 31 May 2024
  • Longtime scouts, high-ranking executives and coaches in Rochester all heard from Adams that day.
    Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 2 June 2025
  • The fact that this arm guard is made from strips of brass, a rare and expensive metal at the time, suggests that the wearer was a high-ranking official.
    Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024
  • And once again the leaders of China and Russia will skip it all, sending high-ranking ministers to speak in their stead.
    Richard Roth, CNN, 21 Sep. 2024
  • The other gunman, who ran off and has not been caught, also fired the bullet that killed Mette, according to a high-ranking police source.
    Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Based on the tombs and the treasures within, the deceased were likely wealthy landowners or high-ranking residents, the museum said.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Sometimes, according to the indictment, high-ranking gang members would go to court and pull records, looking for names to see who may be talking to police.
    Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Witkoff traveled to Gaza last week, becoming the first high-ranking US official known to visit the strip in years.
    Lex Harvey, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025
  • William, who turns 41 on Wednesday, wore his official uniform of the high-ranking, honorary officer role and a tall bearskin hat.
    Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 17 June 2023
  • The changes have rankled some high-ranking staff and career professionals at NASA.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Most of their high-ranking members in Québec were in jail or waiting to go on trial for their part in that province’s biker war of the 1990s.
    Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2025
  • The second half of the cabin was designed for high-ranking ministers or state guests who reside in six Deluxe Suites, and first-class compartments.
    Daniel Cote, Robb Report, 31 July 2024
  • The film centers on the family of a high-ranking SS official that lives next door to Auschwitz concentration camp.
    Manori Ravindran, Variety, 26 May 2023
  • Anyone would have been able to find the whereabouts of the high-ranking business figure with a few quick Google searches, according to D’Amico.
    Tom Winter, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Yet one high-ranking Wagner insider, Andrei Troshev, has emerged as a potential contender to step in and run what’s left of the group.
    Mary Ilyushina, Francesca Ebel, Rachel Chason and Claire Parker, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2023
  • The island is home to the Grand Forest, a 240-acre nature preserve with many hiking and cycling trails, high-ranking schools, shops, and restaurants.
    Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Though Kol — allegedly a high-ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel — is mentioned in the warrant, she hasn’t been charged in the killing, according to court records.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2024
  • In Nuremberg, in the fall of 1945, twenty-two high-ranking Nazis were put on trial before a group of judges from Allied nations.
    Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The top-of-the-line Mercedes-Benz models of the era were favored, not surprisingly, by high-ranking German officials of the period.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 20 Mar. 2023

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