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