Sentence examples for at second rate from inspiring English sources

To my mother's dismay, I saw a life beyond performing fire poi at second rate festivals.

Was he reduced to playing recycled hits at second-rate sites?

It was overwhelmingly salty, but the rest, rinsed in fresh water, were blissfully sweet and custard-like, with no hint of the metallic flavor that mars the elderly uni served at second-rate sushi bars.

I suppose I should stop being amazed at first-rate restaurants flourishing in unlikely places, because New Jersey is full of them.

He grew up at third-rate tracks in the Midwest, where horses were injected because horsemen needed them to run to feed their families.

Like Harvard's Adams, Hertzberg taught at first-rate institutions (Columbia, Dartmouth, New York University) yet his, as he says often, was not a cloistered academic life but one in which he sought to make "a difference, a real difference".

It seems as if every single shop, service-oriented business, private company and government office along with municipal employees, bank managers, railway conductors and waiters at second-rate restaurants have simultaneously returned to the Soviet custom of barking rudely at customers.

Among English critics and audiences, the Violin Concerto was not at first rated one of Walton's finest works.

Musically tepid and cloying, "Rude" strives for a brand of tropical pop akin to Paul Simon's "Mother and Child Reunion" or the crossover vibe of Sublime and UB40 but lands at third-rate Men at Work.

GameSpot had a similar issue over the poor camera control in the PC version, at first rating it with a 6.0, but re-rated the game higher after reviewing a newer version.

The overall health and life quality scale was reported low at first rating, 74.6, with an significant increase for years two (p = <0.001) and three to 81.9 (p = <0.001).