How to Use rank and file in a Sentence

rank and file

noun
Definition of rank and filenext
Synonyms for rank and filenext
  • Like, the rank and file of the committee were briefed late on this.
    — NBC News, 3 July 2022
  • The question is how well the rank and file will accept change.
    — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 17 July 2021
  • Cops -- this is a slap in the face to every rank and file cop in the United States.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 20 May 2021
  • That hurt him with much of the rank and file, who ridiculed his academic airs.
    — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2020
  • And to be sure, there are plenty of buyouts that don’t work out too well for the rank and file.
    — Kevin Dowd, Forbes, 17 May 2022
  • His share of the presidential vote shows that many in the rank and file share the CBN’s concern.
    — Bob Smietana Religion News Service, al, 24 June 2021
  • The rank and file know a lot that leadership never will.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Such a move would likely meet with resistance from the rank and file.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Officers accuse the top brass of not standing up for the rank and file.
    — Will Wright, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Former coffee boss Howard Schultz was at war with his rank and file over the creation of a union in 2021.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The Dallas rank and file see chiefs who are hired from out of state with some skepticism.
    — Cassandra Jaramillo, Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2021
  • The mayor said a number of issues contributed to the decrease in the rank and file.
    — Ryan Young, CNN, 2 Feb. 2022
  • That triggered ire among the Hollywood unions’ rank and file.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The statement said over 70% of rank and file members voted in favor of the agreement.
    — Theo Greenly, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • That helped prompt companies to spend any surplus on the rank and file instead.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 12 Sep. 2022
  • But orders to the group's rank and file on the ground are contradictory.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2021
  • The next step for Hall: tackling diversity in her own rank and file.
    — Camille C. Knox, CBS News, 2 July 2022
  • The pushback the from rank and file was immediate, and immense....
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The agencies said the changes were aimed at protecting their rank and file against harassment and doxxing.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Democratic leaders and rank and file Democrats are all saying the same thing: this has to happen and soon.
    — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2021
  • At the time, House Republican leaders had planned to let their rank and file vote their conscience on the bill.
    — Amy B Wang and Marianna Sotomayor, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2022
  • Among the GOP rank and file, there is a prevailing sense that Republicans can’t lose in 2024.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 5 Sep. 2023
  • But orders to its rank and file on the ground are contradictory.
    — Kathy Gannon, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Some rank and file teams, such as Utah and Phoenix, actually are challengers.
    — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Women have made greater inroads in the upper echelons of the Fire Department than among the rank and file.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2021
  • This was a betrayal of the E.A. rank and file, which is, for the most part, made up of extremely decent human beings.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2022
  • City Manager Chris Lagerbloom shared the news Tuesday with the department’s command staff and rank and file.
    — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 29 June 2021
  • By the 1950s, the men who ran companies from behind closed doors had started to shape a new kind of workplace, one where the rank and file would want to, not just have to, spend their days.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Williams said the group also is taking a look at uniforms, which is something not initially on their radar, but was raised by the rank and file.
    — Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Given that Deere is projecting record profits this year of more than $5.7 billion, the rank and file plainly thought that wasn’t enough.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2021

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