Sentence examples similar to a first-rate competence from inspiring English sources

By night he's a first-rate dad, able to throw his infant son giggly inches into the air and demonstrate competence at both adult and baby conversations.

A FIRST-RATE MADNESS, by Nassir Ghaemi.

A first-rate piece of social reportage.

A first-rate action sequence ensues.

E is a first-rate factoid.

Mr. Fischer is a first-rate Mozart conductor.

He was a first-rate parliamentarian.

A first-rate thirst-quencher.

Ion claims that he is a first rate explicator of Homer; that he is a first rate explicator only of Homer, and loses interest as well as competence if another poet (such as Hesiod) is brought up (531a3 4, 532b8 c2; 533c4–8); and that Homer discusses his subjects much better than do any other poets (531d4 11, 532a4 8).

Mumbai has a third-rate infrastructure.

It was a third-rate mystery novel.