How to Use rank and file in a Sentence

rank and file

noun

• To that end, the city may have help from the rank and file.
  — Joshua Fechter, ExpressNews.com, 12 June 2020
• The problem is not with the rank and file within the NCAA, but at the top.
  — Elton Alexander, cleveland.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• Men in the rank and file also have to take up this cause.
  — Bryce Covert, New Republic, 20 Oct. 2017
• Like, the rank and file of the committee were briefed late on this.
  — NBC News, 3 July 2022
• The Local 328 rank and file are set to vote on the new contract Sept. 1.
  — oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2019
• 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
• But her policies and practices riled some of the rank and file.
  — Caleb Downs, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Apr. 2018
• So the rank and file was deeply angry and elected Mr. Trump.
  — David Gelernter, WSJ, 5 July 2017
• At the same time, the police union’s leadership is telling the rank and file that Prop.
  — Evan Sernoffsky, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2018
• Kind of a pain for the rank and file media that cover the Raiders every day?
  — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 12 June 2019
• That hurt him with much of the rank and file, who ridiculed his academic airs.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2020
• The Democratic rank and file don’t want to pay the GOP’s ransom.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 11 Jan. 2018
• Things have not been terrible for as long as the rank and file think.
  — Eric Bolin, ajc, 7 Nov. 2017
• The way out of this morass may come not from the POA’s leadership but from its rank and file.
  — Caille Millner, SFChronicle.com, 24 Jan. 2020
• Redbox’s rank and file don’t seem convinced that help is on the way.
  — Janko Roettgers, The Verge, 5 July 2024
• 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
• Because of this, the NRA is not beholden to its rank and file.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 21 Feb. 2018
• Boards could do more to broaden ownership to the rank and file.
  — The Economist, 8 June 2019
• 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
• The rank and file did not know that OHSU had stashed the respirators in a warehouse.
  — oregonlive, 25 Mar. 2020
• Such a move would likely meet with resistance from the rank and file.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
• Did anyone consider that maybe some of the rank and file make too much?
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 24 Aug. 2017
• Officers accuse the top brass of not standing up for the rank and file.
  — Will Wright, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2020
• The rank and file are just sheep, willing to vote for whichever bill the leadership tells them to.
  — Jim Newell, Slate Magazine, 28 July 2017
• 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
• One grievance among more than a dozen compiled by rank and file union lawyers who have scheduled a no confidence vote on Bowden-Lewis this week is her rocky relationship with the commission.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 8 Feb. 2024
• But much of the war-weary American public opposed the idea, and opposition started bubbling up among both parties’ congressional rank and file.
  — Andrew Prokop, Vox, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024