How do you use the word "rank" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "rank": The hierarchy of rank has long been fixed. Taxis stood in a rank in front of the station.

Rank Meaning

/ˈɹæŋk/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjStrong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.

adjStrong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong., Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.

Sentence Examples

The hierarchy of rank has long been fixed.

Taxis stood in a rank in front of the station.

She was not used to mixing with people of high social rank.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

place order grade

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

She quickly achieved the highest ____ in her military division after hard training.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

She rose through the ____ of the organization over twenty years to become its chief executive.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English rank (“strong, proud”), from Old English ranc (“proud, haughty, arrogant, insolent, forward, overbearing, showy, ostentatious, splendid, bold, valiant, noble, brave, strong, full-grown, mature”), from Proto-West Germanic *rank, from Proto-Germanic *rankaz (“straight”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“straight, direct”). Cognate with Dutch rank (“slender, slim”), Low German rank (“slender, projecting, lank”), Danish rank (“straight, erect, slender”), Swedish rank (“slender, shaky, wonky”), Icelandic rakkur (“straight, slender, bold, valiant”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"And, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good." — 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 41:5:

"The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common." — 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:

"fow Sprat or Fullum Barley, which is the best for rank Land, because it doth not run ſo much to Straw" — 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:

"The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver—over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple […]" — 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:

"Divers sea fowls taste rank of the fish on which they ordinarily feed." — 1661, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-physical Doubts & Paradoxes, […], London: […] J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, […], →OCLC:

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