How to Use top-level in a Sentence

top-level

adjective
  • By late in the decade, the top-level girls talent had become a talking point.
    Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Still, one knock against him might be his lack of success against top-level teams.
    Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Any team Stafford plays for will have to walk the line between top-level play, his march toward 40 and the risks that come with.
    Dan Duggan, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The rest of the draft was filled with talented players who need to fill a roster that lacked a lot of top-level players.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2023
  • Across the top, the interface displays three top-level header items: Home, Guide, and Saved.
    PCMAG, 26 Nov. 2024
  • How did Pharrell push you in the studio this time around to make sure everything was top-level?
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 1 July 2025
  • With more and more top-level aides turning their back on SBF, a long jail term is looking likely.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Elite, the top-level plan, is for full-on commercial accounts.
    PC Magazine, 25 July 2025
  • That means the last half of the season will be wild as these teams will be providing a top-level matchup each weekend in the second half.
    Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 20 July 2023
  • From there, the learned how to do the behind-the-scenes work needed as for top-level administrators.
    Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The overview was just a top-level look at the $6.8 trillion budget proposal.
    Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2023
  • No other top-level player in the league is from a wealthy country in which baseball is the most popular sport.
    Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2024
  • Tadej Pogacar broke his wrist in late April and hasn’t taken part in top-level competition since.
    Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 1 July 2023
  • However, his first 36 holes have been anything but a joke, and instead have involved a lot of top-level golf.
    Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Scott is going to cost money, though not what Burnes or other top-level starters are getting.
    Chuck Murr, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • In the top-level suite, The Alliance, located next to the Chairman’s Lounge, places are secured by invite only.
    Gregg Evans, The Athletic, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The championship court is electric, and features top-level matches all week on the livestream broadcast.
    Todd Boss, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Can the defense take the leap to elite status with a dominant performance against a top-level attack?
    Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The hospital is the top-level trauma center for coastal Georgia.
    Russ Bynum, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Yet the tragic facts are that Kaminsky never kicked a ball again in top-level football, for Forest or any other club.
    Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Jigger & Pony, in Singapore, is one of those top-level cocktail bars.
    Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 11 Nov. 2023
  • But any incoming player needs to be a top-level athlete.
    Carl Anka, New York Times, 16 May 2025
  • Engage in comment threads, not just top-level comments.
    Justin Nassiri, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Read, of Mansfield, had faced up to life in prison if convicted of second-degree murder, the top-level offense charged against her.
    Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 28 June 2025
  • The Wild boast an elite defense and top-level goaltending tandem, but neither unit can compete with the Stars at stopping goals.
    Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Google has rolled out a new top-level domain that will let companies build websites that reflect a single word, such as writ.ing or play.ing.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2023
  • He is asked to run it at least close to as well as one of the best young playmakers in the league, a 20-point-per-game scorer and top-level closer who also ranks second in the NBA in assists.
    Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Tuvalu is perhaps the first and most well-known example of a country opening up its top-level domain (.tv).
    IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The Sundowns approached the game in the right way but were unable to execute the plan, and Dortmund used all their top-level experience to take control.
    Gregg Evans, New York Times, 21 June 2025
  • The only thing that replaces a top-level quarterback is a top-level quarterback.
    Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2026

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