How to Use echelon in a Sentence

echelon

noun

• We heard stories of corruption in the upper echelons of the firm.
• His Wrecking Ball rose to the upper echelon of main tank players by the end of the 2021 season.
  — Dallas News, 4 May 2022
• When healthy, Brown is among the upper-echelon blind-side protectors in the league.
  — Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2023
• And what about his quest to be included among the upper echelon of receivers in the NFL?
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
• Just how many remains to be seen, but the good news is most games among the upper echelon are chances to boost credentials.
  — USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2024
• If the upper echelons of management choose to work away from home and the office, there is a lot more at stake for a business.
  — Chintan Patel, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2023
• Based in Milwaukee, the Ruth Foundation for the Arts starts in the top echelon of arts philanthropy.
  — New York Times, 29 June 2022
• Perhaps McCarthy can join the top echelon of the ranks by adding another ring to his resume with the Cowboys.
  — Dallas News, 9 July 2022
• Julian Castro seems to have been frozen out of the party’s upper echelon.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 13 July 2022
• Come the 1870s—the start of the Gilded Age in America—white tie was the definitive formal dress for the upper echelon.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 26 Apr. 2022
• Beaverton, no doubt, deserves to be among the upper echelon.
  — Shane Hoffmann, oregonlive, 7 Dec. 2022
• As the Western Conference stacks up, the Lakers don’t appear to be among the upper echelon.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2022
• Foremost among his takeaways was that this top echelon would be getting far younger.
  — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 5 Oct. 2023
• Born and raised in Los Angeles, Phipps fits right in with the upper echelon of society.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 30 June 2022
• With the ultimate cosign, Ice had enough auxiliary star power to launch her into the pop stratosphere and the upper echelon of the charts.
  — Heran Mamo, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2023
• But the issue has come to a head in recent days as the feud begins to delay nominees at the highest echelons of the military.
  — David Sivak, Washington Examiner, 13 July 2023
• In such a culture, there was no shortage of private actors willing to feed the judge’s greed, even at the highest echelons of the business and legal elite.
  — Time, 25 July 2023
• The Oregon State Beavers’ methodical climb back to the upper echelon of the college baseball rankings has reached the top 10 for the first time this season.
  — oregonlive, 15 May 2023
• Verdugo and Yoshida are in the top-10 in the early batting race featuring nine AL East players in the upper echelon so far.
  — Larry Fleisher, Forbes, 7 May 2023
• This is the case, for example, with New York City Ballet, the obvious third member of the country’s top echelon of ballet.
  — Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post, 23 May 2022
• Still, the big pay days don’t come close to matching the upper echelon of media and tech compensation packages.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2022
• But the luxury goods tell their own story, revealing more about what life was like for the upper echelons of society in the 1600s.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Feb. 2023
• Between the two victories, Watzke also pushed back against media reports that there was a rift within the upper echelon at the club.
  — Manuel Veth, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• Werner then pushed back on the idea that ownership has decreased payroll, pointing out correctly that the Sox have long been in the upper echelon of the game.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2023
• And that’s a problem for Myrna, whose voice can perhaps be best described as in the same echelon as Mrs. Featherbottom’s.
  — Vulture, 27 May 2022
• Will voters think Haliburton and have Fox have cracked the upper echelon of guards in breakout seasons?
  — Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2023
• She's reached the upper echelon of it and is respected by everyone.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023
• He’s got an opportunity right now to get ready to join the top echelon of superstars, but that means making the guys around him better.
  — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 17 Mar. 2023
• There was a sliver of hope for the rest of Class 6A — a chance for new players to enter the state’s upper echelon and a new contender, or two, to assert themselves amongst the girls basketball elite.
  — Shane Hoffmann, oregonlive, 1 Mar. 2023
• There are working Southern actors to lend credibility to films set in the South, although few have made it to the upper echelons of fame with speech patterns intact.
  — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024