rank
Example Sentences
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In 2021 her father made her a chief of staff in his private bodyguard, giving her the rank of general.
From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026
This spring, Democratic gubernatorial candidates Shenna Bellows, Troy Jackson and Hannah Pingree announced that they would rank each other on their ballots and encouraged supporters to do the same.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026
A recent study by the Economist showed that 10% of Americans now rank soccer as their favorite sport, making it the third most popular behind football and basketball and narrowly edging out America’s pastime, baseball.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
Pepys’s financial corruption, common enough among officials of his rank, is well known, having come out in the unexpurgated edition.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Washington had been made a major in February 1753, an amazingly high rank for a man who was not quite 21 years old.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
Vocabulary lists containing rank
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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The Nose Knows: Olfactory Vocabulary
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"Death of a Naturalist" by Seamus Heaney
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