Sentence examples for a second banana from inspiring English sources

Such are the fortunes of a second banana.

But they have some real assets as a second banana.

Yes, Mr. Bloomberg is a closet Democrat and an alpha dog who doesn't want to be a second banana.

Songs like those still sometimes leave 2 Chainz in a long shadow, though, and indeed much of his career to date has been as a second banana.

Before becoming president, Teddy Roosevelt served as vice president to William McKinley, and Rhoda was a second banana to Mary Tyler Moore until she got her spinoff.

Bruce Cabot, in films a second banana to King Kong and John Wayne, sparkles as the bumptious and boozy American reporter, Granger.

"Jack Black is a third banana in 'High Fidelity,' and they now send him every script," Rotenberg says.

If you offer them two choices (apple or grapes) and they pick a third (banana) you have the opportunity to cede control to them as long as their choice achieves the outcome acceptable to you (fruit).

Mr. Clooney worked his way up from "a seventh banana in mediocre TV" to his current asking price of $12 million a film by taking risks and vigorously standing up for himself, even if that assertiveness alienated some powerful people in Hollywood.

The humor in "Mockingbird Lane" is darker and subtler than anything in "The Munsters," and where Al Lewis's Grandpa in the original was a second-banana sort of figure, the new show revolves around Mr. Izzard.

Those of us who attended the taping of the NBC pilot saw a slick piece of professional show business: Mr. Carolla was funny, Mr. Hasselhoff was a riot, Mr. Foust was a good second banana and Mr. Stromer, well, he was some other banana.