Sentence examples for by a mediocre from inspiring English sources

Another hundred-point belting by a mediocre opponent?

What we're seeing here is not simply a flailing campaign run by a mediocre candidate.

The Mets found an old way to lose this one, being silenced by a mediocre pitcher.

Rather than be serenaded by a mediocre country star, ABC's George Stephanopoulos and Martha Raddatz dissected every move.

What's unnerving about last night is that the Jets were nearly shut out by a mediocre Oakland defense.

As the first few photons strike the detector, they leave a seemingly random scattering of dots, like the bullet holes left in a target by a mediocre marksman.

With this setting they could get by on a mediocre offering, but they don't.

Some might believe that Pat gets the girl when he wins a bet for his father by scoring a mediocre 5 with an admittedly adorable dance number.

But the Manchester United faithful expect to contend for the title every year, and Mr Glazer can ill afford to alienate them by fielding a mediocre club.

By contrast, a mediocre veteran third baseman like San Francisco's Pedro Feliz was hitting.249 with a.290 on-base percentage and.414 slugging percentage entering last night's game.

The challenge comes from Don Foster, an English professor at Vassar who made his name by attributing a mediocre elegy to William Shakespeare and accurately pinning the anonymous novel "Primary Colors" on the journalist Joe Klein.