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How to use the word ladder in a Sentence?

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I liked that her family was typically American. Within just a couple generations, they climbed the socioeconomic ladder and they had married people with all sorts of different backgrounds. That, to me, is part of the magic, annie’s story is our story.

Megan Smolenyak

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A branch hit the ladder, took him out, i think his left arm is scarred up pretty good.

Darrel Woodie

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We're climbing up a ladder, scaling across a tin roof, mud everywhere, the first day, we're sliding across the tin roof to get to the other side.

Joseph Palumbo in Perry County

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Hispanics want to prosper… they want to figure out, ‘OK, how do we reach the next step on the ladder?’ That's what Hispanics are focused on, not memorizing 74 pronouns. Not relitigating 1492 or Latinx and trying to upend the entire Spanish language, [They] really just want to focus on living a good life in this country, providing for their families and succeeding.

Giancarlo Sopo

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Any time you can go up the ladder on those titles, it increases pay, so if you get a higher title, even though the company may not be paying you more, when you compare that title and move to the next job your pay comparables are higher. You've created the illusion of a higher paying job.

Tessa White

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I've just been trying to work in my area, in sports, everything feels so far away. Your whole life you try to achieve something and you go step by step, but this ladder is broken now and now your whole life goes in a different direction.

Vladimir Putin.For Heraskevych

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's a game-changer in the geopolitical realm, not unlike in the military realm, because they're trying to [ send a ] strategic message, in my assessment, [ Putin ] is climbing small steps in the escalation ladder on the trajectory to nuclear warfare.

Rebekah Koffler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When Harris is missing, you're like, ‘Where is she?’ And then when she pops up, you're reminded why she's missing. It's deliberate, and Joe, it's not like he's lost a step. He's lost an entire ladder. So I understand why they're hidden. But at some point, you're going to have to pull them up out of the ground because they're either going to run or they're not.

Greg Gutfeld

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Academia implores you to unlearn then relearn as you climb the ladder of knowledge, creating a thin line between the truth and evidence.

Sanita Belgrave

added by sanita_b
2 years ago

For success there is no ladder or elevator, if you want to reach the top, you have to climb.”

Wesley D'Amico

added by WesleyD'Amico
2 years ago

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Boothe Luce

added by Normando
2 years ago

I’m sure of it, it had the black ladder on the back and the two black rooftops on top, the two bars, and we made the comment that would be the perfect little camper to go around in.

Shannon Baker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The water was rising and deep for our people, so we use the ladder to get vests for the three patients in case they fell out and floated down, and then it was determined that on the other side of the river, it was a little more shallow for them to walk in and pull the patients out one by one and get them out on the other side.

Operations Scott Robb

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You let the the first people who volunteer to get these vaccines be older adults, and then middle aged adults, and then we work our way down the age ladder, somebody may ask,' Gee, why don't you do them simultaneously ?' Well, there's not that bandwidth. You just can't do too many trials simultaneously.

Paul Offit

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Someone commented from the dock that clearly, Andy didnt want to help. A man on a jet ski said he thought Andy must be going toward the ladder on the dock. Brett turned his attention there and then he realized that something was wrong; he didnt see any movement and dove in. At least two others came running to help. Andy was pulled from the water, CPR was performed, and emergency services were called. But he was already gone, Cassi recalled. The Free family, confused and shocked, had no idea what had happened.

Cassi Free

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Andy spent the day seated in the back of the boat when he wasn't swimming, tubing or wakeboarding. (Courtesy of Cassi Free) Brett stared, looking to see where Andy was going, someone commented from the dock that clearly, Andy didnt want to help. A man on a jet ski said he thought Andy must be going toward the ladder on the dock. Brett turned his attention there and then he realized that something was wrong; he didnt see any movement and dove in. At least two others came running to help. Andy was pulled from the water, CPR was performed, and emergency services were called. But he was already gone, Cassi recalled. The Free family, confused and shocked, had no idea what had happened.

Cassi Free

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Well, you know, Chinese parents want you to do some professional jobs rather than be an actor, being an actor is like the last rung in the ladder of professions. They don't even call it a profession because it's shameful to demonstrate your feelings in front of an audience. You were taught to be kind of quiet and to keep to yourself.

James Hong

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I'm very proud of NASCAR right now, we're moving on up the ladder. We're taking baby steps but we're changing things for the better.

Brehanna Daniels

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Bootlickers rise easily and rapidly through the ladder in the corporate world.

Probaerb

added by anonymous
4 years ago

He's got a good wage, he saves his money but he can't afford to step onto that ladder. A man that age should have his own place.

Mary McCormack

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I have never felt before such a movement of anger towards the government, he's got a good wage, he saves his money but he can't afford to step onto that ladder. A man that age should have his own place.

Mary McCormack

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Progress on the social ladder is almost always the result of progress in other areas of your life.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
4 years ago

When you move past them on the social ladder, they’ll feel a need to pull you down.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
4 years ago

Every time we came to the property, the first thing we did was walk up the ladder and, in essence, see the view that we were going to have, that was captivating for us.

The Cohen

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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