Sentence examples for Second to someone from inspiring English sources

"We were a bit disappointed," Mr. Wise said, "but I told him that if we had to be second to someone, Hemingway was it".

If the majority of us do not say our piece, as Lee has done, then educated and honest people will always come a poor second to someone playing 'a bad John'.

The temptation is to see athletes from other nations as indestructible, you don't think of the Yanks as people who bleed just like you do, who lose just like you can, until you see them come second to someone you train with every day.

Obviously, when he comes and tells me he's gay in 18 years' time…" Skinner, about to tour his first standup routine for seven years, has made some discoveries himself of late: chiefly perhaps the blessing that comes when putting yourself second to someone in your life.

I knew my place was second to someone else's and didn't know there was anything wrong with it.

The first would be painful, and the second ruinous, to someone who relied only on a fixed annuity.

"If I'm going to take second fiddle to someone, I'm going to take second fiddle to my wife," he said.

Take for example, TOMS shoes, which donates a second pair to someone in need, or modern non-profits like Kiva.

"This is not much of a demand, to stop for 10 seconds to find someone who killed someone," the justice continued.

A great second choice Mason claimed that virtually all his major roles were first offered to someone else.

The finding raises the possibility, he says, that a DNA vaccine "could convert someone who normally would be able to clear a pathogen--albeit they might get sick first--to someone who can't clear it at all".