Sentence examples for of being second from inspiring English sources

I am tired of being second.

After years of being second best, he was now the star.

Daddies is great, but it also comes with the unmistakeable tinge of being second best.

Back we go, back the Jets go, to another twenty odd years of being second best — the Nets, again.

Sarah Palin, after all, had a good chance of being second in line for the Presidency in the Administration of a man who is not young.

This Spartan discipline was imposed when she grew tired of being second - or fourth or fifth - best and decided to do whatever it took to realise her potential.

"Our story of being second-generation Asians was not being heard," says Bilgrami.

Ranking every person and book so we won't be associated with anything suspected of being second-rate?

It still had the reputation of being second-rate, compared with Paramount or M-G-M, but it was expanding and innovating.

They had telephone and e-mail exchanges with several Times reporters, few of whom were pleased at the prospect of being second-guessed.

But creativity has spread out from its traditional citadel, and not just because the media people grew tired of being second-class citizens.