Sentence examples for it second best from inspiring English sources

He is peevish at having had to wait, at having been given the wrong venue, at being, as he or she sees it, second best to the interviewer.

And, actually, if the Forbrydelsen/ Wallander stuff does first best suit the chill flat angsted lives of southern Scandos, it second best suits the wastelands of Washington state, where grunge was born, resentments are hoarded for warmth in the winter and there's no lack of dark Norsky/Teutonic guignol: as if Garrison Keillor had written many more stories for children who drink.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette named it second best sports moment in the history of the show.

Anthony Lane of The New Yorker named it second best, Empire magazine named it fourth best, and Rene Rodriguez of The Miami Herald named it joint fourth best with Eastwood's Gran Torino.

Games Radar ranked it fifth "best videogame stories ever", saying its "greatest strength comes from pacing".

In a more recent 2014 poll, the magazine's readers voted it fifth best Doctor Who story of all time.

It had its third best quarter ever in the ratings.

The film opened to rave reviews, netted half a dozen awards and is strongly tipped for major gongs next year; end-of-year reviews unanimously sing its praises (the Guardian's critics' poll rated it second-best film of the year).

It's been good all season but today it was second best.

Paste named it the second best album of 2010 in its end-of-year albums list.

In 2013, Eurogamer listed it as the twentieth best game of the contemporary console generation, and Game Informer named it the second best superhero game of all time.