Sentence examples for it was second-rate from inspiring English sources
"I think the attendees kind of felt like it was second-rate because it was so small," he said.
It is second-rate sensation-mongering.
(It's commonplace to say it is second-rate, but everyone still likes it).
"The bar has been set, and anything less will be looked at as if it's second-rate," Desmond Ryan, the executive director of the Association for a Better Long Island, a real estate developers' group, said of 1001 Franklin.
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.
Not all of it was first rate.
Professor David Pesetsky writes "Intellectually, it was first-rate and exciting; there were some fireworks (just as we'd hoped), and it was a very emotional weekend as well.
He had read "A Piece of My Heart," the novel I'd published, and said it was "first rate, top drawer".
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.
