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For RANK, below is one of 258 sentences:
One particularly good result of this advertisement of his scheme was that he came to rank as neither more nor less than a millionaire.

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 Meanings and Examples of RANK
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rank
 n.  relative position in a society; official position or grad; row, line, series, or range
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Yet the newly-arrived guest kept his head sufficiently to contrive to murmur some such compliment as might fittingly come from a middle-aged individual of a rank neither excessively high nor excessively low.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
2  One particularly good result of this advertisement of his scheme was that he came to rank as neither more nor less than a millionaire.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
3  Also, such crowds of feminine shoppers began to repair to the Bazaar as almost to constitute a crush, and something like a procession of carriages ensued, so long grew the rank of vehicles.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
4  The young men started living together in one set of rooms, under the remote supervision of a cousin on their mother's side, Ilya Kolyazin, an official of high rank.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
5  God give you good health and the rank of a general, while we will be content to look on and admire, worthy.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  Innumerable "romantics" attain later in life to considerable rank in the service.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
7  They took rank for intelligence; even at sixteen they were already talking about a snug berth.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: III
8  Don't graft higher than your rank.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
9  It's my duty as chief magistrate of this town to see that visitors and persons of rank should suffer no inconveniences.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
10  Our rank is such that we can very.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
11  I simply saw a high-toned, cultured man of the world, and his rank and titles didn't make me feel a bit queer.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
12  They are rank liars; a mere child wouldn't believe them.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
13  He won't spare either rank or station.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
14  With these words she greeted Prince Vasili Kuragin, a man of high rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
15  The matter was mentioned to the Emperor, an exception made, and Boris transferred into the regiment of Semenov Guards with the rank of cornet.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X
Example Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
16  The queen will exalt the actor Alec Guinness to the rank of knighthood.
17  He is expecting to rank first in the class
18  The caste refers to social system based on rigid distinctions of birth, rank, and wealth.
19  Has very large tattoos on upper arms, including an army chevron about the size of a grape fruit - it is the rank of a Staff Sergeant which he claims he is.
20  Their disparity in rank made no difference at all to the prince and Cinderella.
21  Maya elites relied on luxury items, such as jade and quetzal feathers, to denote high social rank.
22  I saw he was going to marry her, for family, perhaps political reasons, because her rank and connections suited him; I felt he had not given her his love, and that her qualifications were ill adapted to win from him that treasure.
23  They're expected to give only their name, rank and number when questioned.
24  Hollywood members, who for decades brought in mega-star wattage as well as mega-bucks, are aging, and yet there's no new lifeblood coming up through the rank.
25  Facebook will begin allowing its users to rank news sources they see as the most credible and trustworthy so it can better rank and prioritize them in its News Feed.
26  Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole supports it, though he has ranked it below other foreign-policy priorities.
27  A captain in the navy ranks above a captain in the army.
28  Discontent among junior ranks was rapidly spreading.
29  He rose through the ranks to become a General.
30  This move sowed dissension within the party ranks.