Sentence examples for beat lesser from inspiring English sources

But when the Indianapolis Colts stunned the Patriots in January with a furious second-half comeback in the American Football Conference championship game, they exposed all the holes that Belichick had patched to beat lesser opponents.

The accusation is that City have mastered the art of beating lesser teams but do not have the nerve for more difficult assignments.

After routinely beating lesser opponents in their first two games, the Nebraska Cornhuskers expected Notre Dame to give them a stiffer test tonight.

The Nets, who were led by Stephon Marbury's 23 points and 12 assists, treated the game appropriately and played solidly enough to beat a lesser team with perhaps a lesser star.

Magath said after last Sunday's defeat to Everton that they were playing well enough to beat the lesser teams.

This phone can beat any lesser manufacturer's offerings handily and it stands toe-to-toe with Apple.

Michael Hubbard from MusicOMH labelled the song "one of 2001's best singles", saying that it "predictably beat off lesser 'competition'".

Viñedo Chadwick Cabernet Sauvignon, for example, made by Errazuriz's Eduardo Chadwick, came top in a blind tasting 10 years ago, in the process beating no lesser name than Château Lafite.

Such software, known as ransomware, is fast becoming the most popular kind of malware for criminals to install on compromised computers, beating out lesser threats such as adware or trojans.

No. 3 Marcelo Rios of Chile, another former top-ranked player, returning from off-season groin surgery, had a lesser struggle, beating Vincent Spadea by 6-4, 6-4.

Dan and Jenny Humphrey share a decaying West End Avenue apartment with their father, Rufus, "the infamous retired editor of lesser-known beat poets," whatever that means, who goes around the house in his underwear and a three-day-old gray beard and cooks inedible tagines from Paul Bowles recipes.