How to Use top-ranking in a Sentence

top-ranking

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• Trump had the top-ranking lacrosse team stand to be recognized.
  — Seung Min Kim, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2025
• Roughly a 55-mile drive to the southeast, Greensboro was home to two top-ranking brunch spots.
  — Simone Jasper, Charlotte Observer, 7 May 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The top-ranking Florida city was Clearwater, in the Tampa Bay area.
  — Simone Jasper, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 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 the auto industry, some of the top-ranking titans include Michigan's Roger Penske, 86, with a net worth of $3.2 billion.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2023
• 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
• Both series tallied a rounded 8.4 million views last week, which is low — but not unheard of — for top-ranking Netflix shows.
  — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024
• The top-ranking position will be Curran's first job at the service's headquarters.
  — Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2025
• The Art Directors Guild has elected a new slate of executive board officers, and for the first time in the union’s history, the top-ranking four are all women.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 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
• According to a study by Ahrefs, AI Overviews led to a 35% lower average click-through rates for top-ranking pages on search engine results pages.
  — Anne Marie D. Lee, CBS News, 21 May 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The mini chainsaw in question—the Greenworks Cordless Mini Chainsaw—is our top-ranking pick amongst mini chainsaws.
  — Micki Wagner, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2023
• His name was found on a list published by The Austin American-Statesmen newspaper showing the names of the 32 candidates competing for the city's top-ranking role in the police department.
  — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 25 June 2024
• Wyoming, the other top-ranking state for economic environment, was No. 30 for healthcare.
  — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
• Fifty years later, Jaws remains one of the top-ranking motion pictures of all time, and Edgartown, the small town where much of the movie was shot, is about to play a starring role once again as part of the film’s golden anniversary celebration.
  — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 June 2025
• This is similar to the range of scheduling options with Acronis Cyber Protect and other top-ranking backup apps.
  — PCMAG, 7 Jan. 2025
• Their efforts and spending have gained some headway within the legislature and among top-ranking Texas officials.
  — Doyle Rader, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Fortune’s 2023 Best Workplaces for Millennials list finds that top-ranking companies have one trait in common: a focus on fun.
  — Joseph Abrams, Fortune, 20 July 2023
• 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
• The top-ranking 100 students, no matter their gender, were admitted to the engineering program.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 July 2022
• But don’t knock the lack of top-ranking statistics.
  — Benjamin Royer, Daily News, 17 Jan. 2026
• These are the top-ranking selects.
  — Malia Griggs, Glamour, 10 Dec. 2025