of higher rank
Example Sentences
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Crew are usually expected to raise complaints with a person of higher rank, but Leah says there was no-one above the captain.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2023
A tall, blonde soldier with a beard who appeared to be of higher rank stepped out of the Russian-made SUV, demanding to know why they’d broken curfew.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2022
Johanny Rosario Pichardo, 25, of Lawrence, Mass. Sergeant Rosario was commended by her unit in May for excellence in a supply chief job usually given to someone of higher rank.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2021
He said he gave Mr. Short the opportunity to resign and that somebody of higher rank in the White House directed him to do so.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 26, 2017
They are able to multiply by growth and division, and they are therefore the elementary parts, units of life of lower rank, of which the cell, a unit of higher rank, is composed.
From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Oscar Hertwig
