Sentence examples similar to first rate name from inspiring English sources

"We knew we needed a first-rate name," he said.

A Famous Name's Consequences Mr. Bush may not have had a decent suit when he announced his candidacy, but he had other assets -- among them a first-rate name.

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.

More important, we worried that she would forever see herself as second rate because the name on her diploma didn't command sufficient admiration.

Absolutely first rate.

It's first rate.

The sound is first rate.

SERVICE -- First rate.

First rate.

Miss Lonelyhearts, sung by a first-rate tenor named Jeremy Little, sits at his city room typewriter or agonizes on his rumpled bed.

The rest of the evening was Western music that leaned eastward: the Khachaturian Violin Concerto, with a first-rate violinist named Chuan-Yun Li, and Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade".