Sentence examples for less sterling from inspiring English sources

Keegan Bradley came here with a much less sterling track record at Bay Hill.

Two other specimens from the sea were less sterling, both fired longer than we would have liked.

As the last few years have made abundantly clear, Thomas Jefferson was rather less sterling than his prose.

Many top-performing high school students are burnt out by the time they're freshmen, while working- class teenagers and community college transfers with less sterling records arrive with a hunger for learning and often fare at least as well.

The trailer shows plenty of footage of energetic crowds and performers totally in their element, but alludes to some of the less sterling moments of the festival's past.

It sometimes sold off less than sterling assets.

His play in Game 5 Wednesday night in the Devils' 5-3 victory was less than sterling.

That left the FHA as the only game in town for borrowers without big down-payments or with less than sterling credit.

Securities markets have also opened up, and larger companies — even those with less than sterling credit — have been borrowing more than before from that source.

Few spectators stayed after the tournament was concluded, perhaps because the American side was sprinkled with Scottish exiles and the golf was less than sterling.

Smiley soon acquired, according to Kenneth Nebenzahl, the Chicago dealer, "a less than sterling reputation — as a slow payer, or a no-payer".