top-flight
Example Sentences
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Back in 2020, at the height of their powers, his team were relegated from the Premiership and fined more than £5m for repeated breaches of the top-flight salary cap.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
And ordinarily, the teams who finish 18th and 19th in the Premier League receive a bye into round two - with the rest of the top-flight teams who avoided relegation.
From BBC • May 28, 2026
Isak netted 54 goals from 86 appearances in the Premier League for Newcastle but scored just three times in 14 top-flight appearances for Liverpool, albeit six of those games were from off the bench.
From BBC • May 26, 2026
There were fears Liverpool's success would not continue once Klopp departed, but Slot led them to the title in his first season - matching Manchester United's record of 20 English top-flight titles.
From BBC • May 23, 2026
Eric, by now a full-time employee at Andersen, thought he might like a computing school; the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign had a top-flight one.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
