How to Use rung in a Sentence

rung

noun

• He was on the bottom rung on the corporate ladder.
• In straight bar, the lace sits across the tongue like the rungs of a ladder.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2023
• The purchase was meant to widen the bank’s reach to the lower rungs of the wealthy there.
  — Fortune, 6 Mar. 2023
• The Niners at 6-5 are at the bottom rung of that group.
  — Tom Canavan, courant.com, 29 Nov. 2021
• Then the extendable metal arm can reach for the next rung, and so on to the top.
  — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2022
• To climb, the metal arm first latches on to a rung and pulls the robot up.
  — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2022
• Come the second half, cheers from the benches rung louder.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 3 Jan. 2024
• Three ladders with upturned butcher knives for rungs led to the ground.
  — Kate Guadagnino, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• But its top rung is reserved for the likes of car collector Michael Fux.
  — Jill Newman, Robb Report, 20 Nov. 2022
• Many, if not all, were only one rung removed from the streets themselves.
  — Selam Gebrekidan, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2022
• Some ask if the broken rungs on the corporate ladder can be fixed.
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
• Climb the ladder by stepping onto the center of each rung and using both hands on the sides.
  — Kevin Brasler, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
• The deal also removed the bottom two rungs from their salary schedules.
  — Deanna Pan, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2023
• The low rung garners four points, the medium six, the high bar 10, and the uppermost, known as the traversal, a solid 15.
  — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2022
• Robb Report spoke with two captains who worked their ways up the ladder from the lowest rungs.
  — Kevin Koenig, Robb Report, 15 July 2023
• There is likely to be much more turnover in the full Politburo, the second-highest rung of power.
  — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2022
• That’s why many people skip the EDP altogether and jump right on up to the next rung: The parfums and extraits.
  — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2024
• In some cases teens even have the leverage to land jobs that aren’t at the bottom rung of the ladder in terms of skill level or pay.
  — Annie Probert, BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2022
• These Timberwolves look primed to skip a few rungs on the ladder and reach the tippy top via one giant leap.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 19 Jan. 2024
• Then, fold and space out your treasured, or most attractive, blankets along the rungs.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• Hannah Brown keeps climbing the media ladder, one rung at a time.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 19 July 2023
• The Orioles, like many teams, want their instruction to be uniform from the major leagues down to the lowest rung of the minors.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2022
• The federal appeals court is one rung below the Supreme Court, eight of the current nine justices came from one of the circuits.
  — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2022
• The research team found that humans are rungs below apex predators.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
• The small, bipedal plant-eater likely ran in herds and occupied a lower rung on its local food chain.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
• For one at the bottom of society’s rungs, who had given up on the doomed American dream, nomadism in the wide-open West was the way to go.
  — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
• And that’s how this young American came to spend a few months working the lower rungs of the ladder at one of the world’s most famous restaurants, L’Arpège.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 7 Sep. 2023
• In these novels, my trauma becomes but one rung of a ladder.
  — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
• The beef of the Amazonian steer has finally reached the top rung of the ladder: the American consumer.
  — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
• With a complex array of factors contributing to this broken rung, there is no ‘one and done’ solution to repairing it.
  — Dr Margie Warrell, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024