How to Use hierarchy in a Sentence

hierarchy

noun

• He was at the bottom of the corporate hierarchy.
• The church hierarchy faced resistance to some of their decisions.
• In the hierarchy of the ship’s crew, the mail clerks were somewhere in the middle.
  — Susan Seubert, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Aug. 2021
• At the very same time that big money was on the rise, the power of the Catholic hierarchy was on the wane.
  — Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 9 Mar. 2021
• And food conferred a place in a hierarchy of the scarred.
  — The Economist, 16 June 2018
• Other than that, the meeting is by men and for men — the hierarchy of the church.
  — Nicole Winfield, The Seattle Times, 20 Feb. 2019
• Lue dismissed the idea of any kind of hierarchy, saying the team just needs to play the right way.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• The hierarchy should always be those with the least go first.
  — John Surico, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2023
• In the hierarchy of track-capable Corvettes, the Z06 is the top dog.
  — Marc Urbano, Car and Driver, 31 Oct. 2022
• There’s this whole weird hierarchy where the chef is revered as this god.
  — Alyson Sheppard, Robb Report, 24 June 2021
• The mass of the Higgs is one aspect of what is known as the hierarchy problem in physics.
  — The Economist, 13 Jan. 2018
• The hierarchy of power in the Shrek universe is about to change.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 4 Apr. 2023
• To speak to a Jew would be to lose one’s place in our boyish hierarchy.
  — Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2021
• The word is still spoken and the sense of racial hierarchy is still intact.
  — Michael K. McIntyre, cleveland, 13 Oct. 2019
• And the hierarchy of the ship is so ill-defined that even when mutiny brews, the stakes of the conflict remain vague.
  — Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2022
• In her own words, the brash, scathing sound was born from a primal need to resist the hierarchy.
  — Tanu I. Raj, Billboard, 13 Feb. 2023
• The hierarchy of power at the box office is about to change.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 22 Oct. 2022
• Say it with us: the hierarchy of power in the DC universe has changed yet again.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 31 Jan. 2023
• And someone high up in the hierarchy often needs to serve as that voice.
  — Sarah Scoles, Wired, 28 May 2021
• Wisconsin is known as the land of beer and cheese — but brats are often the next in the hierarchy of state foods.
  — Jordyn Noennig, Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
• While status was clear among the dukes and earls at the top of the hierarchy, things got fuzzy among the low-ranking nobles.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2022
• The new cuts conform to the state’s hierarchy of water rights.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Aug. 2021
• The social hierarchy part of the film is not presented in black and white.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 7 Feb. 2023
• The basic idea of the food chain is a who-eats-who type of mapping with the ultimate predator at the top of the hierarchy.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
• In some senses, the top of the large cardinal hierarchy is in sight.
  — Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 22 July 2022
• Often there’s no hierarchy in the way the images are laid out.
  — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 26 Mar. 2020
• Luckily, there is a place for both in the hierarchy of the spirit world.
  — Beth Segal, cleveland, 28 May 2021
• There are signs that the White House hierarchy knows change is needed.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 29 May 2017
• Before Carpenter, a New York apartment might have had no hierarchy between front- and back-of-the-house spaces.
  — David Netto, Curbed, 17 Oct. 2024
• At the root was a frustration with a political and economic system designed during the Pinochet regime, along with social conditions that preceded it, such as Chile’s entrenched hierarchies of race and class.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024