| break rank | 23.63 | But I broke ranks with him. | ||
| join rank | 21.40 | They joined the ranks of the jobless. | ||
| close rank | 12.84 | They close ranks. | ||
| hold rank | 5.40 | Our people would hold a rank apart. | ||
| swell rank | 3.88 | Peer pressure and a need to belong has swelled gang ranks. | ||
| fill rank | 3.23 | Too few candidates have stepped up to fill the ranks. | ||
| thin rank | 2.44 | Illness had thinned our ranks. | ||
| have rank | 2.24 | He had the rank of colonel. | ||
| attain rank | 1.84 | What rank did he attain? | ||
| split rank | 1.58 | This is splitting Republican ranks... | ||
| pull rank | 1.45 | You may just have to pull rank and tell them. | ||
| reach rank | 1.45 | He reached the rank of major. | ||
| reduce rank | 1.38 | Reduce the rank of royal highnesses? | ||
| expand rank | 1.18 | Gun control advocates have expanded their ranks considerably since then. | ||
| give rank | 1.05 | His rank was not given. | ||
| open rank | 0.92 | The alliance plans to open its ranks to new members this summer. | ||
| deplete rank | 0.86 | They feared their ranks were too depleted. | ||
| enter rank | 0.86 | More recently, recruits entered police ranks after years of military training. | ||
| purge rank | 0.86 | Milosevic has repeatedly purged its ranks, leaving his ciphers at the top. | ||
| infiltrate rank | 0.79 | A small group of neo-Nazis have infiltrated the ranks. |