I never remember to have seen vegetation in ranker luxuriance than that which these fig-trees exhibited, nor upon the whole a more singular spot.
It is a fact that the old ranker waited for the end of the stanza.
An old ranker had halted at the door, his platoon behind crowding the stairway.
It was not until this moment--the German officer examining his passports, theranker studying the insignia upon his sleeve--that Peter met the disaster of the future.
The grasses grew A little ranker since they dewedthem so.
A pungent kind of snuff made from the darker and ranker kinds of tobacco leaves.
The Luftwaffe high ranker did not finish the rest.
For a moment or so Dave and Freddy could have been a thousand miles away for all the attention the Luftwaffe high ranker paid them.
He imagined the Luftwaffe high rankerat the open door and scowling in savage defeat up at the heavens toward England.
And as if they weren't enough to signify that some high ranker sat in the pit, a black and white streamer was attached to the radio antenna pole.
The Nazi Luftwaffe high ranker seemed not to hear Dave.
Stand not, sir, bare to me; I ha' read oft That serpents who creep low, belch ranker poison Than winged dragons do that fly aloft.
Tis like so, for when a man goes a wenching, it is as if he had a strong stinking breath, every one smells him out, yet he feels it not, though it beranker than the sweat of sixteen bear warders.
It was von Staube who spoke, but Dave instantly noticed that the Nazi high ranker was careful not to speak in his natural booming voice.
And more than one German Staff head had gone rolling into the basket because that high ranker had tried to freeze out Herr Himmler.
The German high ranker growled in his throat, snatched the envelope from Dave's hand, stabbed a thick finger under the flap opening and ripped viciously.
A stately, beautiful native plant, seen to perfection where it rears bright panicles of bloom above the ranker growth in the low moist meadows of the Ohio Valley.
It is first cousin to the similar evening primrose of taller, ranker growth.
Feathery white panicles of the starry campion, whose protruding stamens and fringed petals give it a certain fleeciness, are dainty enough for spring; by midsummer we expect plants of ranker growth and more gaudy flowers.
The gentleman-ranker of the old days--so far back as the Peninsular War he was common enough in the army--for the most part enlisted because he had come to grief in some fashion or other.
But it is not so generally known that in the old purchase days there was quite a considerable leaven of gentle-manhood in the ranks, without any such specific anxiety for promotion as actuates the gentleman-ranker of to-day.
In many cases the "grousing" of the ranker may strike the reader as objectionable, and had this record been penned in a comfortable study, arm-chair philosophy might have caused many a passage to be omitted.
Out here one learns to appreciate the ranker more, and the commissioned man less.
Was your brother a Private William Smith, a gentlemanranker in the seventy-eighth battalion of the City of London Regiment?
I was a ranker when it broke out and saw the whole show from August 1914.
The Adastral House high ranker nodded, flashed them a quick smile of greeting and motioned with one hand.
It was the Air Ministry high ranker who finally broke the silence.
A gentleman-ranker is a man serving in the rank who might be an officer.
Marry, that should you, if I were your mistress; or I should think my honesty ranker than my wit.
To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it; Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ranker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
