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 | [email protected], 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

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  • 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 | [email protected], 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
  • The company uses social media analytics including shares and rankings to create an index of the top global rooftop bars.
    — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 16 Apr. 2024

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