Sentence examples for distinctly poor from inspiring English sources

Each team was, as both captains remarked, very good when it was good, distinctly poor when it was not.

This being the early 1900s, it wasn't too shocking to hear about families of six sharing a single damp kennel amid rampant infant mortality, filth, disease and pestilence and barely a pot to pee in, but by the 1960s, a time when many of us had never had it so good, it was looking a distinctly poor show.

At the time of lifting, seedlings should be culled to eliminate those that will not survive after planting i.e., seedlings infested with insects or disease, badly damaged in lifting and handling, having distinctly poor root systems, or falling below minimum size standards.

In Admiral Beatty's words, the results were "distinctly poor and disappointing", and led him to the initial conclusion that he could not consider the American division the equivalent of a British one.

P.S. 30 students are distinctly poorer, and a far higher proportion receive special education.

When forced to prune the search space due to limitations on memory and time, it uses a directed search which favors good solutions over distinctly poorer ones.

Oppositely, soil of another group is distinctly acidic, poor in calcium and phosphorus and comparatively rich in nitrogen and potassium (Ahmed1974).

But he gets distinctly emotional about the poor performance of Texas's educational system.

Distinctly, New York is the poorer for his dismissal.

And poor Tim Pawlenty's distinctly Midwestern bashfulness pretty much put him out of the race before it began.

Instead, The Best Laid Plans is a poor attempt at distinctly Canadian programming that is absolutely sure to displease both general audiences and even halfway respectable media critics.