echelonin a sentence
echelon as in: upper echelons of the company
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The team has broken into the top echelon of the NBA.
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The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise. (source)
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a low-echelon State Department officer
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A patron in the upper echelons of the Party?† (source)
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She wasn't delivering her children to the higher echelons of Munich, but a foster home had apparently been found, and if nothing else, the new family could at least feed the girl and the boy a little better, and educate them properly.† (source)
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It's probably like a huge Masonic lodge, where most people are innocent, but the upper echelons—† (source)
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He rolls the window down and a top-echelon Mafia guardsman nails him with the retinal scanner.† (source)
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The regime created an instant pool of such women by the simple tactic of declaring all second marriages and nonmarital liaisons adulterous, arresting the female partners, and, on the grounds that they were morally unfit, confiscating the children they already had, who were adopted by childless couples of the upper echelons who were eager for progeny by any means.† (source)
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The upper echelon canceled our rides on the QRF flights "to work out kinks."† (source)
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At any rate, because of the help from the lower echelons, I was able to make an excellent showing and to do a good job.† (source)
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You could let your hair grow, he said, and you didn't have to polish your boots or snap off salutes or put up with the usual rear-echelon nonsense.† (source)
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No one topped Chicago in terms of business drive and acumen, but within the city's upper echelons there was a veiled anxiety that the city in its commercial advance may indeed have failed to cultivate the finer traits of man and woman.† (source)
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He said that the group he represents hopes to sell memberships to high echelon executives in American and foreign companies.† (source)
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Riders competing in ordinary weekday events needed to whittle themselves down another 5 pounds or so, while those in the lowest echelons of the sport couldn't weigh much more than 100.† (source)
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On the first day of each month a new code name was chosen for his data, a name made known only to the highest echelon of CIA officers and analysts.† (source)
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All memos were signed Captain-this or Lieutenant-that if they originated from the lower echelons; or Colonel-this and Brigadier-that if they came down from on high.† (source)
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