How to Use hierarchical in a Sentence

hierarchical

adjective

• Yeah, and the idea of the hierarchical structure is gone.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 11 May 2018
• Not flat like the Earth, but flat as in not very hierarchical.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 6 July 2021
• The community plan was based on the concept of hierarchical streets, laid out to the contours of the canyons and the hills.
  — Martina Schimitschek, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2019
• The tiers weren’t hierarchical; the idea was merely that categories might help the chaplains reach those who were most in need.
  — Elizabeth Barber, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2020
• At the same time, the community is very hierarchical, which means those of us near the bottom must learn from those above.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2023
• Federal judges sit in a hierarchical system with the Supreme Court at the top.
  — Jack Goldsmith, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2017
• They’re kind of often set up in a kind of hierarchical system.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 2 May 2023
• They are supposed to be the most nimble group but the military is quite hierarchical.
  — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 17 Apr. 2017
• Consider a case where a boss was judged to be hierarchical.
  — Hylke Faber, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• Large funds tend to be more hierarchical, with a very traditional ladder to the top.
  — Heather Hartnett, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
• Feudalism is a hierarchical system where the wealthy own land, while the poor farm said land in exchange for a place to live, as well as protection.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 7 Jan. 2019
• The ocean liner is a hierarchical world, for both passengers and crew.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2022
• There was a hierarchical, violent pecking order like a prison or Lord of the Flies.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2023
• And there's sort of a hierarchical distinction based on where people are born.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2021
• Health care should be a team process, not a hierarchical system that puts one discipline over all others.
  — WSJ, 4 Oct. 2020
• But this movie is also dealing with [the idea that] any kind of hierarchical power structure that moves in any direction isn’t so great.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2023
• The relationship of the priest to his community is commonly viewed as hierarchical; the movement is from the above to the below.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2022
• Before the 1980s, banking was a sleepy, hierarchical business that played a minor role in the economy.
  — Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2020
• His book was endorsed by two cardinals and three bishops, the mark of more senior-level approval in the hierarchical church.
  — Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2017
• Democratize the field The panelists agreed that science can be too hierarchical and slow.
  — Alexandra Sifferlin, Time, 20 Mar. 2018
• With lots of content, a pillar page creates a hierarchical map.
  — Karan Sharma, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
• Nazis put eugenics in a bad light, and the WASPs shed it, at least publicly, but a hierarchical racial imaginary persisted.
  — Doug Henwood, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• Over the course of the next few days, Shula will find herself in the midst of a traditional grieving ritual, hierarchical and surreal in its own way.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 May 2024
• In the long run this can cause significant damage to the hierarchical structure of a company.
  — Ankur Modi, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
• Job ladders do not work as well in less-hierarchical low-wage industries such as restaurants and retail.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2019
• Yeah, their species is dependent on this kind of aid in a really strict hierarchical structure.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
• The restaurant world still harbors affection for the idea of cooks paying their dues, but the fetish for rigidly hierarchical and abusive workplaces seems to have abated in recent years.
  — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
• And the hierarchical structure of the church reinforces the idea that institutions are important tools for good.
  — Jayme Fraser, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2020
• Some packs are hierarchical and include alpha, beta, and omega pups.
  — Quispe López, Them, 26 July 2024
• These groups are hierarchical, and macaques on Cayo Santiago used to be quite aggressive to other members of their group.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024