How to Use ranking in a Sentence

ranking

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• Who is the ranking officer here?
• Four companies that have held spots in the Top 150 for years will drop out of the ranking next year.
  — Paul O'Donnell, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2021
• However, this change doesn’t mark a return to the pre-ranking era.
  — Paul Monckton, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
• The top countries in the ranking are Vietnam, India, Pakistan, and Ukraine.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2021
• The Aztecs totaled 25 points and were the equivalent of 38th, the highest ranking among Mountain West teams.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2022
• Cipollone is the highest ranking official from the Trump White House to do so.
  — Tamia Fowlkes, Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2022
• At least one panelist, though, warned that a new ranking system might not be the answer.
  — Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• Krug is the chair of that group in the Assembly, and Spreitzer is the ranking Democrat on the Senate committee.
  — Journal Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2024
• The highest and lowest ranking cities, and the category that most helped or hurt each, are shown.
  — Michael Kolomatsky, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• The Asian Tour events will have minimal ranking points but still more than what Reed is getting now.
  — Doug Ferguson, ajc, 2 Aug. 2022
• The feedback will temporarily boost or suppress the ranking score for that kind of post.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2022
• But in the end, the highest ranking public official in Ohio’s second-largest county did not get called to the stand.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2021
• Carlson’s ranking as the No. 4 player in the state falls in line with its recruiting profile.
  — oregonlive, 22 Oct. 2021
• The Cowboys won their first two contests to retain their preseason ranking but haven’t looked all that good in the process.
  — USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2021
• The highest ranking golfer to not make the list is Patrick Reed, who's already competed in three Ryder Cups.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2021
• Westview wide receiver Darrius Clemons has been rated as the top prospect in the state Oregon for the class of 2022 since the ranking first came out.
  — oregonlive, 24 Oct. 2021
• There's no ranking or points system; quite simply, most votes wins.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2022
• Sign takes a swipe at Oregon, who lost to Stanford but has a better ranking than Cincinnati.
  — Chris Pugh, The Enquirer, 6 Nov. 2021
• Tracy is part of a whopping 18 new names on the Song Breaker chart this month, marking the biggest ranking turnover since the chart’s debut.
  — Billboard, 12 Oct. 2021
• Ellison was second in the ranking round and Brown fifth, leading to the No. 2 mixed team seed behind South Korea.
  — Jeff Metcalfe, The Arizona Republic, 23 July 2021
• This might be the boldest ranking but Beamer is a young, charismatic coach who has a high ceiling.
  — John Talty | [e-mail], al, 13 Jan. 2022
• And as Mosseri himself now admits, they’ve clearly been favored in the ranking algorithms of the feed and Explore page.
  — Chris Welch, The Verge, 20 Jan. 2023
• Burlingame said Wyoming’s ranking as the worst place for suicides per capita is reason enough to keep firearms away from people in crisis.
  — Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 16 June 2022
• Launched in 2020, the ranking measures each brand’s efforts toward extending the life cycle of their clothes.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 15 May 2023
• But Finns themselves say the ranking points to a more complex reality.
  — Penelope Colston Jake Michaels, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2023
• Circle guards are the lowest ranking, followed by triangles, and square guards are the highest.
  — Quinci Legardye, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2021
• The spooky single returns to the ranking following its annual uptick in sales and streams as Halloween comes around again.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2021
• Niche is a ranking and review website that focuses on colleges in the United States.
  — Christy Bailey, al, 1 July 2023
• Or maybe the jackhammering and closed shops will factor into next year’s ranking?
  — oregonlive, 9 Sep. 2021
• Chrysler had the lowest ranking among non-electric vehicle brands.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2022

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ranking

2 of 2 noun

• With the win, Verplank moved to No. 6 in the world rankings.
  — Mark Kazlowski, Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2023
• The latter marks the fourth-longest run since the ranking launched in 1985.
  — Pamela Bustios, Billboard, 28 Feb. 2024
• But a rank of 110th for healthy food dragged the city’s overall ranking down.
  — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 5 Apr. 2024
• In honor of the movie’s 15th anniversary, here’s a ranking of all the songs in the film.
  — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• There was a time when Day, too, was a fixture near or at the top of the World Golf rankings.
  — Brad Townsend, Dallas News, 15 May 2023
• Our law school has climbed in the rankings faster than any law school in U.S. history.
  — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Apr. 2024
• For the complete list of public courses, check out the rest of Golfweek's state-by-state rankings.
  — Caleb Wiegandt, The Courier-Journal, 15 June 2023
• Xavier finished with a school-record No. 3 ranking in the final AP Poll.
  — Shelby Dermer, The Enquirer, 19 July 2023
• Well is the fifth top 10-charting effort for Musgraves, and all of them have started in the top four of the ranking.
  — Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 24 Mar. 2024
• The table below shows the states at the opposite ends of the freedom rankings.
  — Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 22 Nov. 2023
• The piano-pop song is the first entry on the ranking for the Spanish singer-songwriter.
  — Gary Trust, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2023
• The top eight teams in the rankings won last week, and the selection committee’s only changes among that group were at the very top.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• Hot on the heels of National Doughnut Day comes a ranking of the top doughnut shops across the country.
  — oregonlive, 7 June 2023
• For eight years in a row, Northwest Arkansas has earned a top 10 ranking.
  — Tony Holt, Arkansas Online, 17 May 2023
• The German city with the highest number of companies in the ranking is Munich, with 11.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 8 Nov. 2023
• The website used a variety of factors to construct the ranking.
  — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2024
• Results from the past three years are averaged to create a ranking.
  — Fox News, 20 Mar. 2024
• Coleman is the No. 1 senior prospect in the state, according to the 247 composite rankings.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 19 June 2023
• Notably missing from the rankings are any City Section teams.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2023
• That means excellent test scores, rankings, and admissions to the right kinds of colleges.
  — Curbed, 10 Jan. 2024
• The IMDb year-end rankings mirror the films’ box office performance as the charting films are the biggest Indian hits of the year.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 29 Nov. 2023
• As part of its annual ranking for the top states for business, the news outlet found that Indiana was the seventh-worst state to live and work in.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 24 July 2023
• To show how deep the field was, the bulk of the teams in the gold division were fighting for the No. 1 ranking in their entire states from California, Arizona and Hawaii.
  — Tim Meehan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2024
• At number 10 on this year's list, Table by Bruno Verjus in Paris became the highest new entry to the rankings.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 20 June 2023
• There's a new six-way tie for first place in an annual global travel ranking.
  — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 11 Jan. 2024
• But tumbling to the bottom of the hiring rankings isn’t California’s style.
  — Jonathan Lansner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2024
• Since 2014—when the country was awarded the number one spot—America has been on a steady decline, dropping through the ranking.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 19 Jan. 2024
• Shop like a billionaire A new e-commerce tycoon is shaking up the rankings of China’s wealthy.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2023
• The final season of The Crown got off to a slower start in Nielsen’s streaming rankings — which might have something to do with the fact that Netflix released only a part of the season.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2023
• Voters' rankings could of course change before the field winnows again, so the analysis reflects where things are today.
  — Kabir Khanna, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2023

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