Sentence examples for it was first rate from inspiring English sources
Not all of it was first rate.
He had read "A Piece of My Heart," the novel I'd published, and said it was "first rate, top drawer".
I could have done without the sub-Arthur Miller speeches about the glory days when industrial workers made an honest wage, but when "The Company Men" stays with its real business — the calamity of joblessness — it is first rate.
The rib-eye steak, by far the most expensive entree at $32, was juicy and tender, and the roasted garlic Yukon mashed potatoes and grilled asparagus served with it were first rate.
It's first rate, and a great souvenir of a time when the duo's future, as Tom Petty might say, was wide open.
Other H.I.V. vaccine experts reacted cautiously to the research, saying it was first-rate work but hedging on its practical implications.
IT WAS first-rate political theatre.
It was first-rate theatre, and the moment when Clinton herself appeared on the floor and moved to nominate Obama by acclamation seemed to provide some of the promised catharsis.
"I think the attendees kind of felt like it was second-rate because it was so small," he said.
