Sentence examples similar to not very best from inspiring English sources

They play a Pentagon general and a US state department politico doing their not-very-best to stop a war happening.

Not the very best of years in Cannes, but not a bad year either, and any festival which gives us a film as good as Amour had to be an essential cinema event.

"I just wished they played not the very best doubles team first".

If not the very best, Carnegie's pastrami sandwiches are at the highest level.

He's widely considered to be among the best players in league history, if not the very best, period.

"I think the evidence is nearly conclusive that General Thomas is one of the best (if not the very best) instruments for this service".

For stretches, Djokovic was bothered with his rhythm, his stamina, his blistered toe; it was not his very best match.

(His lines could have been given to the Greek cop with the bad marriage, himself not the very best creation).

It's not his very best work, but it distills his virtues well enough to suggest how such a distinctive style might have arisen.

Foreman, too, felt that the final result was "a little stiff" and "not my very best work," a problem that he attributes partly to suggestions he received from the Public.

You're not the very best?