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How to use tier in a sentence

36 example sentences · noun, verb

Tier means one who ties (knots, etc.). Example: “Stoke City were playing in the second tier of English football before being promoted to the Premier League.”

Examples of tier by meaning

nounA rank or grade; a stratum.

  • Stoke City were playing in the second tier of English football before being promoted to the Premier League.
  • Turians have 27 citizenship tiers, beginning with civilians (client races and children).2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Turians: Government Codex entry
  • At various points during the (too frequent, mostly boring, school play-tier) dialogue.2023 May 25, Nic Reuben, “The Lord of the Rings: Gollum review”, in The Guardian

nounA (typically forested) range of hills or mountains, especially in South Australia or Tasmania; a mountain.

  • This party headed towards the tiers and lakes, scouring the country while veering towards Bothwell.2017, Nick Brodie, The Vandemonian War, Hardie Grant Books, page 114
  • On she drove, leaving the highway, up a skinny country road, past the snow-capped tier and into the forest on its foothills.2018, Robbie Arnott, Flames, Text Publishing, published 2023, page 141

More sentences with tier

  • I know this guy. He recently inted my diamond promos (promotional games to the diamond tier).From the entry int
  • Ancient Roman amphitheatres were mostly oval or circular in plan, with seating tiers that surrounded the central performance area, like a modern open-air stadium.From the entry amphitheatre
  • When discussing game balance in an asymmetric game, players often use a tier list.2016, David Sirlin, “Game Balance”, in Henry Lowood, Raiford Guins, editors, Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon, Cambridge, Mass.…. From the entry tier list
  • The upper tiers of the foreign ministry were quick to embrace a militant policy.2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 394. From the entry militant
  • Someone stole our bloodhounds, but we got the backup bloodhounds to chase the first tier of bloodhounds.2007, Xavier: Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Police Officer. From the entry bloodhound
  • Three tiers of balconies fronted with roped columns supporting arched openings looked down on the marble hall.2001, Terry Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation, page 148. From the entry front
  • It is three tiers high inside the prison and everything is the color of gunmetal.1956, James Baldwin, chapter 3, in Giovanni’s Room, New York, N.Y.: Dial Press, →OCLC, page 149; reprinted New York, N.Y.: Dell, 1988, →ISBN. From the entry gunmetal
  • Bro-ness had long been Bill Clinton's métier.2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties, Twelve Books. From the entry broness
  • However, Google has responded by criticising “apples to oranges” comparisons to subscription-based music services like Apple Music and Spotify’s premium tier.2016 March 23, “YouTube and music labels clash again over ‘meagre’ artist royalties”, in The Guardian. From the entry apples to oranges
  • I challenge these geeks to show a little spirit and produce an 81 tier bonfire by Friday night.1978 November 14, Jeff Boylan, “Excerpts”, in Bob Wasserman, editor, The Tech, volume 98, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT, archived from the…. From the entry geek
  • A broad tier of shelves below an expanded metal "pegboard" gives Kline's a focal point for shoe-apparel-accessory fanfaring.1967, Boot and Shoe Recorder: The Magazine of Fashion Footwear. From the entry fanfaring
  • It rose in tiers, a maze of intricate wiring inset with black crystal, and surrounded by ladderways and balconies.1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 84. From the entry ladderway
  • Cheshire cheeses, on account of their great size, are generally packed flat, and in a single tier only.1901 February 16, “Liability of railway companies under special conditions attaching to carriage of goods at reduced rates”, in The Irish…. From the entry Cheshire cheese
  • Arlecchino follows Fontaine's trend of releasing characters that can keep up with and rival established top tiers without entirely power creeping them.2025 January 15, Asad Kashif, “Genshin Impact: 7 Best Characters For An Overload Team”, in TheGamer, Montreal, Que.: Valnet, archived from…. From the entry power creep
  • The outboard bales in each tier should be placed on their edges so that their flats will be presented to the sweat battens.2024, Robert J. Meurn, Marine Cargo Operations. From the entry flat
  • Beat the Republic Of Ireland and they will be back in the top tier, sparing Tuchel the possibility of a play-off in March.2024 November 14, Phil McNulty, “'A night of redemption for Carsley offers real hope for Tuchel'”, in BBC Sport. From the entry in one's own hands
  • Buy shoes of each tier, and alternate them accordingly: easy runs in the traditional trainer, workouts in the supertrainer, races in the supershoe.2022 September 14, Alex Cyr, “The best running shoes to buy on a budget”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON: The Woodbridge Company…. From the entry super shoe
  • For most competitive tier lists, however, the rankings are cut at B because champions below B level are rarely if ever viable in competition.2020, Phill Alexander, Esports For Dummies®, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 60. From the entry tier list
  • These second tier businesses too might prefer the luxury of rentier satisficing, but lacking “godfathers,” are compelled to behave more or less like neoclassical profit-seekers.2011, Steven Rosefielde, Masaaki Kuboniwa, Satoshi Mizobata, Two Asias: The Emerging Postcrisis Divide, page 432. From the entry market communism
  • They don't have to zerg lower tier encounters just like the lowest tier guilds doesn't have to zerg orc camp 1 in EC.2002, Wolfie, “Re: Whoa - massive changes due in next patch”, in alt.games.everquest (Usenet). From the entry zerg
  • With the house lights up, the performers are seen in two tiers of dressing-rooms, each with its light-bulbed mirror, flowers and good luck cards.1998 August 30, Paul Taylor, “Theatre: Eastern light and magic”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry dressing-room
  • The small top tier was a white-frostinged chocolate cake, just the right size for taking along on the wedding trip to the Bahamas.1983 June, Evan Jones, “Lore of the Wedding Cake”, in Gourmet, volume XLIII, number 6, page 84. From the entry frostinged
  • Challenges like coronavirus demand the sort of dot connecting that had once been the métier of the National Security Council, and is now lost in Washington.2020 February 7, John Gans, “Col. Vindman and the Trumpification of the National Security Council”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry dot connecting
  • A yo-yo club usually found bouncing between the top flight and the second tier, Leicester had spent the majority of the Premier League era outside of the Premier League.2018 December 12, Jonathan Clegg, Joshua Robinson, The Club: How the Premier League Became the Richest, Most Disruptive Business in Sport…. From the entry yo-yo club
  • Speaking of the guest list, though, it is most disappointing to find some of the third tier European princelings unable to hide their bitterness at being NFI.2011 April 23, Marina Hyde, “Royal wedding: third tier European princeling is bitter at being NFI”, in The Guardian, archived from the…. From the entry bitterness
  • Nor can the common vision of the North Atlanticists, who made up the second tier of officials within the Foreign Ministries of the three allies, be underestimated as well.2003, Michael A. Hennessy, B. J. C. McKercher, War in the Twentieth Century: Reflections at Century's End, page 90. From the entry North Atlanticist
  • However, since timing tiers lack the information of consonanthood and vowelhood in other syllable theories, consonanthood and vowelhood must be defined in different ways depending on phonological theories.1997, Hyeon-Kwan Cho, A Phonological Analysis of Consonantal Assimilations and Consonant-vowel Interactions, page 159. From the entry vowelhood
  • Somehow she had arrived at the miniature grandstand known in Europe as the guinea stand: only eight or nine aluminum runners in a tier with steps.1980, Joseph Hayes, Winner's Circle: A Novel, page 78. From the entry guinea stand
  • This dramatic arrival of the figure in landscape had revitalized its whole problem for him, and that on the practice of a métier going a little stale by repetition.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 58. From the entry getaway
  • Under the five tier system in Scotland, people who live on their own or only with children under 18 can form an extended household with people from one other household.2020, Michelle Roberts, “Support bubbles: How do they work and who is in yours?”, in BBC. From the entry extended household
  • Given that trillions of people may be trying to pass a message through a given buoy at any one time, access to the network is parceled out on priority tiers.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Communications: Administration Codex entry. From the entry buoy

Meaning of tier

  1. noun One who ties (knots, etc.).
  2. noun Something that ties.
  3. noun A child's apron.

Full definition of tier

Questions about tier in a sentence

How do you use tier in a sentence?
Tier is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Stoke City were playing in the second tier of English football before being promoted to the Premier League.”
What is a short sentence with tier?
“Bro-ness had long been Bill Clinton's métier.”
What does tier mean?
Tier means one who ties (knots, etc.).

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