How to Use top-tier in a Sentence

top-tier

adjective
  • But, by any metric, the Rangers rank as a top-tier team.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 1 June 2023
  • Ride-or-Die Deluxe This is your top-tier Jeff, the crème de la crème.
    Evan Waite, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • If the artists aren’t with you, the museum won’t — can’t — be top-tier.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The four-year starter doesn’t feature top-tier speed, but that’s about it.
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2024
  • But top-tier talent cycled in and out during the New York run.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2023
  • Seattle’s top-tier pitching staff has held them to a pair of runs over the first two games of this series.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 10 May 2023
  • And five of the 20 teams in Italy’s top-tier Serie A have American owners.
    Austin Knoblauch, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The top-tier pads also come with that convenient car lift.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 26 May 2023
  • All the while, top-tier musicians pull the song together in the studio.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2023
  • He got booed surrounded by Muppets, and that’s a top-tier feat.
    Vulture, 27 Oct. 2023
  • One thing audiences should expect from the new film though is a top-tier soundtrack.
    Stephen Daw, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The cab and bed combinations are spread over seven trims ranging from the base SR to the top-tier Capstone.
    Andrew Wendler, Car and Driver, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The crisp service, the walkable location, and the top-tier amenities give it an edge.
    Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The seats are comfortable, and in my top-tier GT-Line model, both front and second rows were heated and cooled, a nice touch.
    Kyle Hyatt, Ars Technica, 19 Jan. 2024
  • And the club still expects the 23-year-old to eventually be a top-tier MLB starting pitcher.
    Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 27 May 2023
  • Of course, releasing a gospel-adjacent song doesn’t change who Lil Nas is at his core — a top-tier troll.
    Stephen Daw, Billboard, 30 Nov. 2023
  • With support from the French embassy, the shop also packs in a busy schedule of top-tier events with authors, scholars, and thinkers.
    Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Can San Diego, with its multitude of coastal distractions, prop up a top-tier sports league?
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Now, to be clear: Florida is nowhere close to a top-tier opponent, but that matters little to the Utes.
    Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The last top-tier free agent position player is finally off the board.
    Daniel R. Epstein, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The Ghanaian star is building a truly top-tier oeuvre, and with a new album on deck for this year, there’s plenty more to come.
    Heran Mamo, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Conductor Keith Clark, who has led Opera in the Park every year except one, has packed the lineup with top-tier singers.
    James Bash | , oregonlive, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The halftime show is a rite of passage for American music’s top-tier stars, and Usher deserves to be in that pantheon.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Luring Messi to Miami has been a longtime goal, but there is top-tier talent on the squad this season.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 2 June 2023
  • The top-tier Diamond status can only be earned by spending.
    Chris Dong, Travel + Leisure, 3 May 2023
  • Armed with insight into how much an employer is willing to pay a top-tier candidate, job seekers can aim to land at the high end of the range.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Against that backdrop, the AI boom reaped fortunes for a few leading firms, leading to a literal renaming of the top-tier of tech players.
    Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Talent Fight The reason Citadel spares no resources to train these students is because of the intense battle for top-tier talent.
    Lulu Yilun Chen, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Located forward on the main deck, the top-tier owner’s suite comes with an office, dressing room, and sizable bathroom.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2023
  • This was an era of unbridled innovation in motorsport, and by the mid-1960s, top-tier race cars had simply gotten too fast for the track.
    Bob Sorokanich, Robb Report, 17 Sep. 2023

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