How to Use top-tier in a Sentence

top-tier

adjective
  • But, by any metric, the Rangers rank as a top-tier team.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 1 June 2023
  • Ride-or-Die Deluxe This is your top-tier Jeff, the crème de la crème.
    Evan Waite, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • If the artists aren’t with you, the museum won’t — can’t — be top-tier.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The four-year starter doesn’t feature top-tier speed, but that’s about it.
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Every season, top-tier shops and dealers bring their cream of the crop pieces out for the event.
    Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2024
  • But top-tier talent cycled in and out during the New York run.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2023
  • Seattle’s top-tier pitching staff has held them to a pair of runs over the first two games of this series.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 10 May 2023
  • In fact, for top-tier flippers, the profits and the production are down to a science.
    Hadley Meares, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2023
  • And five of the 20 teams in Italy’s top-tier Serie A have American owners.
    Austin Knoblauch, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • In other words, the iPad Air is nearly as quick as Apple's top-tier tablet.
    PCMAG, 25 May 2024
  • These shears are the top-tier choice for an at-home or professional chef.
    Michelle Love, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The top-tier pads also come with that convenient car lift.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 26 May 2023
  • All the while, top-tier musicians pull the song together in the studio.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2023
  • He got booed surrounded by Muppets, and that’s a top-tier feat.
    Vulture, 27 Oct. 2023
  • And, yes, many deals are only available to those with top-tier credit scores.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Counting on him as a top-tier starter in 2023 would be optimistic.
    Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Ian Kennedy was once a top-tier closer but is 38 and has an uphill fight simply to make the roster.
    Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Beyond the red carpet glamour, the stars still showed us top-tier outfits.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 14 July 2024
  • One thing audiences should expect from the new film though is a top-tier soundtrack.
    Stephen Daw, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The cab and bed combinations are spread over seven trims ranging from the base SR to the top-tier Capstone.
    Andrew Wendler, Car and Driver, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The crisp service, the walkable location, and the top-tier amenities give it an edge.
    Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The seats are comfortable, and in my top-tier GT-Line model, both front and second rows were heated and cooled, a nice touch.
    Kyle Hyatt, Ars Technica, 19 Jan. 2024
  • And the club still expects the 23-year-old to eventually be a top-tier MLB starting pitcher.
    Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 27 May 2023
  • Of course, releasing a gospel-adjacent song doesn’t change who Lil Nas is at his core — a top-tier troll.
    Stephen Daw, Billboard, 30 Nov. 2023
  • With support from the French embassy, the shop also packs in a busy schedule of top-tier events with authors, scholars, and thinkers.
    Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2023
  • The only downside of this top-tier furniture polish is that it can’t be used on non-wood items.
    Rachel Simon, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Mary’s was tested early with a road trip to Florida against top-tier teams.
    Nate Weitzer, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Depth is a good thing, but what the Orioles still lack, for now, is a top-tier starting pitcher to headline the rotation.
    Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2023
  • In any case, the moment’s five-star, top-tier standouts are perfumes that go beyond basic.
    Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The best way for any club to avoid significant yearly turnover and carry multiple, productive top-tier pitchers is to develop them.
    Will Sammon, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024

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