Sentence examples for the first rank from inspiring English sources

"There are very few American plays of the first rank.

Fitzsimmons was not a champion of the first rank.

Hitchings tells its story, and Johnson's, deftly; this is "popular" history of the first rank.

Emerson's verdict on her poetry — praiseworthy but not in the first rank — seems just.

He was, after all, a fashion guru of the first rank.

"I would love to know how many directors of the first rank have attacked me.

Even those of the first rank, like Jean Renoir and Claude Chabrol, have fallen short.

Mr. Mann joined the first rank of screenwriters with "Judgment at Nuremberg," released in 1961.

The political turbulence of the sixties found Miliband among the first rank of the dissenters.

Is he an excellent writer of genre fiction or a novelist of the first rank?

But another reason of the first rank is Kurdish oil greed.