Sentence examples for be second-rate from inspiring English sources
adjective
Of mediocre quality, not first class.
- They are intrigued by Mrs Deelville
It was even suggested that Pathmark's merchandise would be second-rate because that part of Queens is mostly black.
As the play's seedy Lothario of a director, Leigh Lawson expertly exudes the aura of a weary veteran who knows he'll always be second-rate.
When Christofferson hears people say women's professional basketball is fated to be second-rate, she hears echoes from her own journey.
The rap against graphic novels or memoirs is that they're a bastard form that guarantees that both the art and the writing will be second-rate.
While Nokia still makes about a third of all cellphones, its status could erode quickly if consumers perceive its software to be second-rate.
The fiction tended to be second-rate work by first-rate names, but the interviews that Hefner published were often major events: Miles Davis, Malcolm X, Vladimir Nabokov, Ayn Rand, Martin Luther King, Jr., Fidel Castro, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, and the very last testament of John Lennon.
The music is second-rate.
They were second-rate strings from Turkey and China.
It is second-rate sensation-mongering.
Anything in between, you're second-rate".
