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Example sentences for "rank and"

  • Coulanges was in feeble health, and much dispirited by the sudden loss of rank and fortune.

  • Victoire had but just time to complete her preparations, when M.

  • I assure you, I do not give the slightest credit to it; and, in my opinion, it would be much better not to say one word about the matter, either to Emilie or Mad.

  • Let every public servant know, whether his post is high or low, that a man's rank and reputation in this Administration will be determined by the size of the job he does, and not by the size of his staff, his office or his budget.

  • They had heard the Reform Bill carried by the threats of men of rank and power, that "Manchester should march upon London.

  • More than two years had elapsed since he first saw Luciè de Courcy, then residing in the north of England, whither she had accompanied a maternal aunt, the widow of an Englishman of rank and fortune.

  • Certainly, from its style and tenor, It was designed for some person high in rank and office--perhaps the King's Advocate for the time.

  • He had been carefully instructed in the most terrible contest of all, that against wild beasts, for Scopus deemed that, being a captive of rank and importance, he might be selected for such a display.

  • He took off the torque, the collar formed of a number of small metal cords interlaced with each other, the emblem of rank and command, and handed it to the driver.

  • Hence Beric felt none of the exultation and excitement that most British lads of his age would have done on attaining to rank and command in the tribe to which they belonged.

  • They no longer doubted that their page was their son; they stripped him at once of his livery and gave him his rank and prerogatives, under the title of the Count de la Palice.

  • She, a woman of rank and fashion, for more than a year had been robbed of all intercourse with people of a certain set, so with Desgrais the marquise resumed her Parisian manner.

  • Chief among the guests in rank and importance, and rendered by the occasion the central object of interest, was George Belvoir.

  • To every advantage of rank and fortune he adds the industry and the ambition which attain distinction in public life.

  • But he spoke, with all the vivid colours he could infuse at will into his words, of the pleasures and the duties of rank and wealth.

  • What considerably added to Lucy's celebrity was the marked notice and admiration of a man so high in rank and ton as Lord Mauleverer.

  • Not a man of rank and title," she repeated to herself.

  • I am afraid you have serious reason to complain of some man of rank and title?

  • Circumstances which will try you to the quick, spare me the ungracious necessity of paining a man who has lived in friendly intimacy under the same roof with myself by any humiliating reference to matters of rank and station.

  • Remarkable anywhere, by his personal appearance, he was still further distinguished among the rank and file of mankind by the harmless eccentricity of his character.

  • What she may have lacked in grace and charm, she made up by the splendors of rank and position.

  • One met here the philosophers and men of letters, but they did not dominate; they simply flavored these coteries of rank and fashion.

  • Among other traits was a great disdain for the lower classes, though he was by no means subservient to people of rank and wealth.

  • He associated with those above him both in rank and fortune, who leading him into their extravagant follies, quickly dissipated his allowance, which, though ample, permitted not extravagance.

  • Another bride, of rank and wealth, was proposed to him, and then he confessed the truth.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rank and" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    always provided; awfully hard; but none; con una; dear lass; dense clusters; eyes open; finding themselves; future existence; generally adequate; great teacher; growing plant; light and; metal plate; quite well; rank and; rank and file killed; rank and file wounded; rank equal; section thirty; shut them; stay till; strange sight; think upon; would succeed