How to Use tier in a Sentence

tier

1 of 2 noun
  • Much of their third tier is gone.
    NBC news, 7 June 2026
  • Corey’s top tier has five names.
    Corey Pronman, New York Times, 12 June 2026
  • Here’s where the tier shifts from needs to wants.
    Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2026
  • But 95% of those users are on free tiers.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 6 May 2026
  • Many of those options have a free tier.
    Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 1 June 2026
  • Their first tier and second tier are gone.
    NBC news, 7 June 2026
  • There are new tiers for rewards, too.
    Fielding Buck, Oc Register, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The gap between tiers is large.
    Nick Baumgardner, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2026
  • All tiers can access all themes.
    Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 30 May 2026
  • How big is the top tier of players in this class?
    Corey Pronman, New York Times, 12 June 2026
  • So, there is health, and not just in the upper tier.
    Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 27 May 2026
  • There are two tiers to the Greens’ dance cards for the night.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2026
  • They were swept down by the force of the water to the third tier.
    Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Newcastle is a good club, but not the top tier.
    Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Certainly not a top half or a top tier threat in any way.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The free tier will remain for those with more basic needs.
    Zev Fima, CNBC, 28 May 2026
  • Both of their opponents at the time were in the third tier.
    Dan Cancian, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Along one wall ran hundreds of gray, two-tier lockers.
    Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • But there were tiers that people could pay to subscribe to you?
    Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Only ten bottles reached that top tier.
    Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • Here's how these tiers differ in terms of features.
    John Brandon, PC Magazine, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The streamer hiked prices again last week across its three major tiers.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 30 Mar. 2026
  • For renewals, two of the four tiers will remain the same price.
    Natasha Chen, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Ticket access will roll out in tiers.
    Tom Tapp, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The club won’t be able to do that in the second-tier next season.
    Joe Prince-Wright, NBC news, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Pricing sits in the mid-market tier.
    Ascend Agency, Denver Post, 18 June 2026
  • The three tiers are made of durable and strong metal wire that can hold up to five pounds each.
    Shea Simmons, Southern Living, 10 Jan. 2026
  • What's emerging is a three-tier structure.
    Abhishek Gandotra, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • There are a few different tiers.
    Sarah Burns, The Conversation, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Duwaji wore a brown coat, with a three-tier detail, and a smile.
    Jay Stahl, USA Today, 1 Jan. 2026

tier

2 of 2 verb
  • Well, let’s try to tier the best teams by contender status, among this week’s 10 thoughts.
    Brendan Marks, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
  • The resort's focal point is its central infinity pool, which tiers down three levels before spilling out to a spectacular beach — one of the best in the Bay of Banderas.
    Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 11 May 2024
  • Storage today must instead protect our data, tier it across different media, manage it across clouds, catalog the unstructured bits, and integrate it into new cloud-native workflows.
    Steve McDowell, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The state decided to tier the ongoing Phase 1B, meaning that some Phase 1B groups have become eligible before others.
    Emily Brindley, courant.com, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Everyone from senior security leadership to tier one security analysts needs to understand their hybrid, multicloud environment.
    Forbes, 1 July 2022
  • Since 2018 the Navy and shipbuilders have awarded supplier development funding (SDF) primarily to tier two and tier three suppliers, for improving the health of the submarine supplier base.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Comcast had wanted to tier the network to a more expensive sports bundle, forcing people who watched Yankees games to pay more, but YES argued Comcast doesn’t tier Mets’ network SNY because Comcast is a minority owner of SNY.
    Alex Sherman,contessa Brewer, CNBC, 9 Jan. 2026

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