Sentence examples for be a third rate from inspiring English sources

Do we want to be a third rate country or a leader of the free world?

I don't want it to be a second rate keyboard".

Be a first rate version of yourself.

I will let people know she's a third rate talent.

As noted in Vanity Fair in 1927, "'A turkey' is a third rate production".

Dare we say it: The U.S. is a third rate telecom nation.

"I could possibly be a third-rate writer".

Anatole Broyard said in these pages that it "may be a third-rate work of art, but it's a first-rate outrage to our sensibilities".

The plot is relatively simple and revolves almost exclusively around Philip Rawlings, an American counter-espionage agent of the Comintern who describes himself as a "sort of a second-rate cop pretending to be a third-rate newspaperman".

The Cassandra of this latest fight was a columnist (non-sporting) named John Justin Smith, of the Chicago Daily News, who said that it would be a third-rate contest.

We may be a second-rate nation by 2008!