Sentence examples for is second rate from inspiring English sources
The work is second rate at best, and like Valance himself, who dies in World War I and becomes a cult figure, it's a little mysterious.
Young Gangster's covetousness seems to grow out of his knowledge that he is second rate; his aspiration to become the real thing is the motor that keeps him going.
EM Forster, 1908 Lucy Honeychurch, an upper-middle-class English woman, and her chaperone complain on arrival at Pension Bertolini in Florence (their room faces north, the meat served is second rate) but it is upon them that Forster turns his amusing and critical eye.
The traditional distinction between knowledge and opinion suggested that opinion, the useful guide to conduct and practice, is second rate when compared with the secure certainties provided by the philosophers.
My house's construction is second rate?
The designers had a couple of good ideas, but the execution of those ideas in conjunction with the shoot-'em-up action is second rate".
Most postdocs have the skills required for work in industry but can let themselves down if they believe their academic experience is second rate--why then should any employer rate it?
