Sentence examples similar to at the third rate from inspiring English sources

Set at the third-rate Wicomico State Teachers College in Maryland, the novel contains fine scenes of academic nonsense, as when the protagonist and anti-hero Jacob Horner wows the professoriate in a job interview with platitudes about igniting sparks in the minds of students, or in a session with his shrink, wonders whether he should teach "descriptive or prescriptive grammar" in the classroom.

Or, rather, he could, sort of, since she often acted like one already, full of rage at the second-rate servants whom life had hired to take and bring her order.

I found myself spending many evenings at the second-rate jazz clubs on Bleecker Street, trying to look at least mildly entertained as I listened to some tepid trio, while drinking even more tepid wine.

For hypertrophy 347 of 350 scores (99.1%) scored within one scoring step at the second rating session.

Renin inhibition is a new treatment modality that blocks the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) at the first rate-limiting step of the cascade.

We marvelled together at the loftiness of the second-rate in cinquecento Italy.

Philip Shaw, economist at Investec, is expecting the first rate rise in the third quarter of next year.

But, to borrow the words of another New Yorker drama critic, Dorothy Parker, at Tony Time, the first-rate and the fecund-rate are sometimes confused.

Peter Harris, an ordinary-sounding name for an unexceptional man, is the second-rate character at the heart of Michael Cunningham's less than first-rate novel.

Estimates of bWKYvaried as an inverted-U function of rate of reinforcement, peaking at the second highest rate of reinforcement (0.23 responses per second).

Layoffs occurred at the second-fastest rate on record during the first three years of the Bush administration, a government report has found.