Sentence examples for are second rate from inspiring English sources

(Even the S.E.C.'s charges against Robert Allen Stanford, accused of running an $8 billion swindle — on a scale that would have been astonishing in the Before Madoff era — are second rate now).

Even today, most low-price Chilean wines are second rate: chardonnays like overoaked sugar water, flabby reds devoid of tannins, sauvignon blancs that are put to shame by low-price counterparts from New Zealand and the Touraine region of France.

By implication, you're essentially saying "Hi, I'm US President Donald Trump, and I think other countries and the people in them are second rate at best".

The message is understood by all... those religions or non-beliefs are second rate; not American enough and not Air Force sanctioned.

The homemade desserts are first rate.

Today, the facilities are first rate.

The performances, however, are first rate.

"They are first rate financial engineers.

The people surrounding him are first rate".

The editing and sound are first rate.

Watford were second rate in every respect.